I've got a tooth....

Well, actually Ethin does! After approximately 2 weeks of finger chewing, it broke the gum-line some time last night. Thank goodness he teeths (so far) like Evan: lots of finger chewing and very little fussing.

Our June update!

This is Evan's cool new "yummy hat" from Mackinaw City!

It's been a busy month! I started my online class (Michigan History), we switched cabins, and went on a weekend trip to Mackinaw City/Island. The car ride up North was interesting, mainly because Ethin doesn't travel or sleep nearly as well in the car as Evan did at that age. We stayed at the Mill Creek Campground, which is very nice and affordable. We also crossed the Bridge and went to the "Deer Ranch" in St. Ignace. Evan LOVED all the "yummies" and the fact that he got to feed them crackers. He even decided that he could hold the crackers through the fence rather than just throw them from 3 feet away! I have some pictures of that. Ethin's 5 month pictures are also in here.

Progress on the basement

These pictures are old, and I promise to remember to take the camera with me next time I go over to the property to get new ones! We are officially done laying the block, and all the anchor bolts are set. WOO HOO!! The next step will be to put the water sealant on the outside and get it inspected. After that, we are done working on this for this year. If only we had a money tree somewhere on that property!

Ethin's 4 month pictures!

Wow. Where did the time go? Our little baby boy is already a third of the way to bing one! Anyhow, here are some pictures to enjoy!

More pictures!

Here are a few pictures of the guys working, and their progress. Yes, that's the stroller you see there! Ethin came down to help!

I'm waaaay behind now!

All of the events of the last 2 weeks has put me way behind! So here's the abbreviated version of what happened. On the 10th, our blocks were delivered and we got about half of them down in the hole that same day. Matthew and Michael have been hard at work getting the walls built, and as of today, we are almost half done (pics of this weekend's work to come when I remember to take the camera over there!).

Just in case you wanted to know what 1400 blocks looks like when it gets delivered:

We have footings!

Today's big news is that we passed our first inspection (of the hole and our footing forms) and got cement poured for the footings! It's pretty amazing that we have gotten so much accomplished in 3 days! Tomorrow the real work will begin as our block and mortor mix will be delivered outside the hole. That means that we will get plenty of exercise carrying blocks into the hole....all 1400 of them!! I will probably end up with more exercise than I want since I'm also trying to get rocks out of the hole for future landscape use! I have to get them now before we have walls to try and squeeze around with the wheelbarrow.