Wow........ the month of August flew by.
A lot has happened...... The boys and Aaron started school!! Clayton in now a 3rd grader, he seems to like his teacher and school in general. Cody is now a 1st grader, he absolutely hates going to school all day, not a day goes by that he doesn't comment "school is so long, I don't like it." They earn coins based on behavior in class then to do things like use the restroom you've got to trade your coins. Cody asks for quarters before school so he can use the restroom without loosing his golden coins. Aaron is in school~he is so happy, no one could love there job as much as he does, And he is GREAT at being a teacher/coach. He teaches 6th grade science and coaching 7th grade football. There first game is Tuesday so they have been putting a lot of time in preparing~ Good Luck Coach Lippy!!
We ran back to CDA for a funeral Aaron's Grand Mother passed away. We left Thursday morning and got back Sunday evening just in time to semi get everyone ready to run off to school Monday morning. Aaron's Grand Mother was special to us. We really got to know them the last few years. They lived in Plummer so the boys and I would go out and take care of them
from time to time. Grandma loved the boys, when we saw them a month ago she couldn't get over the boys and how much she loved and missed them. It was nice to see them and spend some time with them. It was also nice to see the family together they have 9 kids and I don't know about grand kids or great grand kids other then they had them and a lot of them.
We raced back Sunday and Aaron's mom Karla raced here on Monday. We all started painting our home Tuesday. The body got done quick the
trim got done pretty quick but the peaks not so nice. We tried to spray it Thursday night and couldn't due to wind. We tried again Friday night and again too windy. We decided that Saturday we would get up the crack of dawn and paint those peaks wind or none. With a lot of prayers and patience there was no wind all day long a we were able to get the peaks done. Since the exterior painting we have finished beams for inside and out paint and repaint, we have been so busy. We had our construction friends help us with the huge beam out front. They 3 of them Aaron and his dad George all had that thing up in 5 or 10 minutes. That's how ya get the job done.
We have a scratch coat of cement up so Labor day we will start putting up our textured stone. The scratch coat is all the gray looking areas on our home, that will soon be all rock. There are a lot of little time consuming steps that come in to play to get this far.
We are suppose to get the roof roofed this week and the dry-wall all up, so things are coming along.
Thank You to all who have helped this far!
note: Aaron I love you and appreciate all that you do for us! You are my knight in shining armour.
have been working ourselves pretty hard. We went with this particular contractor because he would let us do quite a bit of sweat equity. Sweating is what we are doing. We have worked very hard putting the rock up all over our home. We're not quite done but I will get that done tomorrow. Next is dry-wall!
have been working ourselves pretty hard. We went with this particular contractor because he would let us do quite a bit of sweat equity. Sweating is what we are doing. We have worked very hard putting the rock up all over our home. We're not quite done but I will get that done tomorrow. Next is dry-wall!
