Stange Places

I always find Italia in the strangest places when she places by herself when I am working on stuff. She usually gets on the train table to reach the trains on the other side. She usually gets off after grabbing the trains but today she decided if she stayed in the table she could play better.

random pics/house update

Italia reading in her toy basket.
Italia reading in Grandpa Scott's massage chair. This is what she gets into when I notice she is being quiet when I am working on my bows.
Far away view.
All of the main floor exterior walls are done, one garage wall and the majority of the interior main floor walls.

The Standards

I know you can't really tell what the picture is but I like blogs with pics better.
We, Me, Italia, My mom, and Scott(my step-dad) where able to go to The Standards Concert.
It was GREAT!!! The Standards are great they are a group of five bros from Twin Falls. Their parents where in my ward. This is my fourth Standards concert plus they performed at a ward christmas party one year. You should seriously check them out at thestandards.com
Italia loved it too. This is her second/third standards concert. She went to last years Christmas concert and loved that and she was in my belly during the Chrsitmas concert the year before. She was so cute. She danced, snaped, clapped, and sang. She did that for half the concert then rested for a little to start up again. Towards the end she was getting hungary so she fussed a little. She lasted through it all except the oncore.

Wall Art

Carter was here visiting and he had to help us put some nails in. He wanted to hammer and bang in 2600 nails including the the nail that held our whole house up:)
Donny taking a much needed break from all his hard work
Carter and Grandpa Dance posing in our breakfast room.

the view from the road and since I left they put up even more walls.

Its coming along nicely

Donny and my dad have been working hard the past couple days. The foundation people got it done quickly so they could begin work the same week.

This is our garage it is a two car garage with a tandem on one side so you can fit three cars or have a big work area and it will also have a big storage area.
Here is part of the flooring system
These are the pony walls in the crawl space that hold up the floors
Italia helping build our house. That is our new trailor that I bought myself.

Fourth of July has always been one of my favorite holidays. So Even though it wasn't perfect mainly cause of lack of planning if was good. Originally we weren't going to go to the parade cause Donny was working on our house all day and it was suppose to be really hot and it is almost impossible to get shade.





But as you can see we went. Carter and Addy weren't suppose to come until Sunday but they showed up in time for the fourth. Which I new all along but had to keep secret. They wanted to go to the parade so we did. It worked out great cause Sara put out blankets early in a great spot. we were in the shad and it was at the front of the parade so we didn't have to wait too long and it was over faster. Which is good for kids. Italia loved it. None of the noises bothered her. And she loved all the stuff handed to her by the parade walkers.

















We didn't end of doing the fireworks cause Donny was to tired and had to get up early the next day to work on our house again but we are doing home fireworks tonight.

house update

Here is an action shot of the cement being poured for our foundation.
Photo courtesy of my dad's camera phone.