Progress

Finally, we are seeing a little progress at the land!!!!
First you'll have to suffer through some pictures of the kids having a blast running around and exploring their new stompin' grounds.
My plan was to just swing by the land to see what had gotten done today, take a few pics and head home, but after the kids saw all of the dirt they just could not resist getting out of the van and running around for a while.
Tootie left her jacket in the car and when she got a little cold, I was too lazy to walk all the way back up to the car to get it...
...so I gave her mine to wear.
Of course they also had to climb up this big pile of dirt.
And Grant insisted on running up and down it repeatedly.
Audrey was pretty much happy just standing on the top and eating her chocolate covered granola bar. Go figure!
Grant did actually slow down for a couple of seconds so that I could try to get a good picture of him. He hasn't been very cooperative in the picture dept lately and has been lacking in face time on here so I wanted to make sure to try to get a good one :) Oh and BTW, all of these pics are SOCC (straight out of the camera). Sorry, too short of time and too lazy for editing tonight.
Next, I figured, 'Hey, why not try to get a good picture of the kids together." No such luck! Why must Audrey always scrunch her nose like that when trying to smile???
On to the progress... These next two pictures were taken from the East side of the property looking at where the back of the pole building will be.

This is from West side of the property. Someday, our house will be built in the grassy area to the left. Someday {sigh}
And finally, this is the view up towards the road.
Hope I didn't bore you too much, but for now this is the excitement in our life!

i heart faces - 'smiles'

Time again for i heart faces weekly photo challenge. This week's theme is 'smiles.' Sounds easy enough, right!? Wrong!! Trying to find a picture of one of my kids with a genuine smile (not a cheezy grin) is no easy task. I did end up finding one of my little Tootie with a pretty cute smile, played with it a bit and this is what I came up with:
So if you are having a bad week or just want to see lots and lots of happy smiling faces, head on over to www.iheartfaces.blogspot.com by clicking on the link below ;)

I think I am in LOVE!

As of late, our vacuum cleaner has been on the down hill slide. Like, spitting out big clumps of hairy dust balls kind of down hill slide. So for the past couple of months, I have been holding the lock for the canister down to keep a good seal while vacuuming. Needless to say, it hasn't been very enjoyable (like it ever is!) to vacuum the floors all hunched over. Well, a few weeks ago, I was shopping with Duke's mom and the kids and we passed by the vacuum cleaner isle. I took a couple of minutes and oogled over the Dyson's on display. You see, my plan had been to save up my rewards $$ from my credit card and wait to get 30% off a Kohls, and the buy my dream vacuum.
Today, Duke's parents stopped by for a quick visit. It was sort of on the impromptu side, which is little unusual, since they live about an hour away. I didn't think much of it and, of course, we love having their company. When they arrived, I was in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Oscar walked in, set something down and announced that they had brought our wedding present. Fr some reason, they have unnecessarily felt that they needed to buy us a wedding present and had been looking for some outdoor furniture now that we have a back deck to fill up but since we were a little more in need of a new vacuum, the final answer was this gorgeous piece of engineering:
I think I have fallen in love. Please excuse me while I wipe the drool and vacuum till my arm falls off!