Babies are Crazy

Since I keep forgetting to take my camera over to the house to take pictures of all the amazing work my darling husband has been doing... I'll tell you a funny store instead.
Yesterday Alex and I walked outside into the rainy 58 degree weather (apparently Idaho Falls has banned both spring and summer) and he looks at me and says "Col!" (cold) So I say, 'col-d." with a real emphasis on the D, you know, sounded like col-duh. So Alex, being the good boy that he his , repeated it perfectly, Col-duh. I was so proud of the genius that was my 2 year old. We head inside and a little while later I give him a cookie. He eats the whole thing the walks up to me with his hand stretched out and says 'More-duh?'
So much for being a genius.

Our House

Alright, here are some pics of our house so far. It seems I haven't taken one of the front on the house, so I will be sure and get that done and post one of those. This first is the missing chimney. It was an old closed off coal stove chimney that was leaking and causing the plaster to crack all the way down. Also it was smack in the middle of the wall that I wanted to rip out. So we ripped it out as well! Let me tell you, the day Jeff took it down it was SOOO windy! He may have been a scared little girl the whole time he was doing it.
This is the back of the house with the chimney still in tact. This picture actually does not do the house justice, the paint is WAY worse than it looks in this picture! :0)

Here is the super cool Coke kitchen. And this set of cupboards with the sink were the ONLY thing in the kitchen. No other cupboards, no appliances, nothing. Those are gone now, as well as the false ceiling that you can also see in this pic. The ceilings are actually 10' high, we are not sure why someone would put a drop on it... guess maybe it was cool 30 years ago....

Here is the wall seperating the kitchen from the... well we aren't really sure what this room actually is/was/will be. So we shall call it the.... dining room? Sure, that sounds good. It is also the entery to the house, the front door is on the wall that you can't see in the pic. Anyway, this is the wall I wanted ripped down.

And here it is mostly ripped down. That chunk in the center is the chimney. The chimney that was just poured concrete. A lot of concrete. It has since been removed (ask Jeff how much he LOVED that job...) and the support beams are being built as we speak so by the end of the day this should be one huge open space!!! That's the majority of what we have done so far, but I will continue to take/post pics as we keep working. Sorry it took me so long to get all of these posted (sandy...:) I am a bit of a slacker. I'll try to be better from now on.

Whoops

Please read the next post, then understand that I forgot this pic. How could I forget this one? This is at Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers. I would like to say that Alex thought this was fascinating, but really, this was all about Jeff!

Detroit

So, Detroit. We had a blast! We went to the zoo first, then to a Tigers game (where they got spanked by the Red Sox.) Alex found the tiger claws (no foam fingers in Comerica Park!) but he didn't get any because... anyone wanna guess how much they cost? $15 each! Can you believe that?

But he did get this super cute hat that he loves!

This is the tunnel at the zoo. It goes underneath the seal habitat and they show off for the people. One of them just hung out letting the jet blow on it's face for about 5 minutes. Alex thought this was pretty fascinating, especially when they swam over our heads.

Since the movie The Golden Compass Jeff and I have both added Polar Bears to our fantasy army. Thus of course we had to take a picture with this one.

The fish kept swimming by in this tank, and anyone that sees alex... ever... knows what he is saying here. Whereareyou?!?!

I wished we would have had more time in Detroit, there was SO much more to do. Next time for sure...

Michigan

Here is a snapshot of part of our trip to Michigan so far! We went to Mackinaw island and there is an old Military fort up on the hill. This was inside one of the bunkers where they made a room into a 'kids quarters.' There were lots of activities and stuff for Alex to destroy. We thought he was just WAY too cute in the soldier uniform.....


Or as an actual soldier....

This is from a balcony at the fort looking out over the island. On this island the only cars alllowed are emergency vehicles. Everything else is horse and buggy or bicycles. You should see the construction buggies. Big old horse drawn flat bed trailers with all the construction equipment on them. No tractors or anything! That would SUCK!

Yup, he fell off. It was awesome.

Here are just a few so far from our trip. We are having a pretty good time, but the weather has been crappy pretty much the whole time. We have really only had decent weather 2 days so far, but it is supposed to be nice friday & saturday. Those two days are important cuz the Tiger's baseball game is Friday, and we travel on Saturday. So here's hoping the forecast doesn't change!

Dance Fever

As you can see this was from around Christmas but baby dancing is always a good time!

6 Blocks Down!!

So, I finally finished my 6 quilt blocks for this month's class. Here is the last one, Whoot whoot!

We had our next class tonight, up next? Applique. Crap. I'll let you know how it goes.