Highlight Reel- Long Overdue....

Front of the house- hardie plank is almost done

Back of the house

Kitchen- that's a window seat below the windows. It will have

drawers in the open spaces in a week or so.....

Family room right off the kitchen. There will be a 126 inch projection screen

on the wall on your right. Needless to say- I cannot wait for football season!

Those are built in cabinets below the windows. Doors are on their way....

Steel shell of our pool. Another thing I am sooo excited about.

The natural stone on the trim of our house. I am in love with this stone.

Our hickory floors. We were going to stain them, but I love the

character so much that we decided to just put the clear coat on.

That will be done in the next few weeks.

"Alice"- the newest addition to our family.

As you can see- she is rotten and has fit right in to our family.

She and Annelise are bedmates and they sleep very well together.

*Been gone for way too long. This is like therapy for me so I have missed out.... Hope all my blogworld friends are doing well. Anyway- I'll get detailed later this week- for now, just gonna give a quick rundown of the latest "events":

1.)- The house is coming along very quickly. Very. I am so excited but also nervous about leaving this part of town and the girls starting a new school, etc etc. All normal stuff. Mostly excited, though!

2.)- Emmaline lost her first tooth a couple weeks ago. Screamed the whole time B was pulling it, but was soooo excited when the tooth fairy came.

3.)-I've apparantly opened a free babysitting service in my house and didn't know it. I've had children at my house overnight for the past 3 weekends and several times during the week. I'm losing it. Between trying to pack and cleaning up after extra kids for 2 weeks I am going nuts. B has forbidden me from agreeing to keep anyone's kids until after we move. Fine with me!

4.)-Spring Break was awful. The girls fought the whole time and we didn't do anything fun with them. Too much going on. Having a guilt trip at the present moment.

5.)- Alice- our new doggie - had been an outside dog when we got her from the rescue center, so we had to housetrain her and all that. At 1 year of age, that is tough. She has been accident free for over 2 weeks, now and is so very precious. We have to find someone to keep her when we go to the beach in June. We're going to pay $100.00 bucks for the week to the caretaker, so if anyone knows of anyone trustworthy who is at home most of the day and doesn't mind a sweet bed buddy at night, let me know! We didn't want to board her because I was afraid she would think we were leaving her at another shelter....

6.)-I've bought all kinds of stuff for the new house and am getting so excited about it all coming together. I'll do a decorating post soon! :0)

*I think that is about it for now. I just feel crazy right now. I am exhausted by the end of the day and the girls have been acting out because we haven't been spending much quality time with them. B and I have said that even if we want to move again we wouldn't for a very very very long time because of the strain this has put on our family time. We've been much more involved with the building process this time- which has been fun and interesting, but also time-consuming. So, glad to get back. I plan to catch up with everyone's blogs tonight or tomorrow. I've been thinking about all of you!! Is everyone else as glad as me that school is almost out?