Saturday, June 30, 2007

The Newest Addition


Violette Amo Personett has arrived which also means the end of little household projects for project3039.
She was born on Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 2:37am weighing in at 7 lbs 13 oz and measuring a compact 18 1/2 inches long.
We are all ecstatic and very much enjoying her.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

House Numbers



Finally got to throw out the cardboard house numbers and put up real ones. We got these from WestOn Letters. (Kabel font, 6" high) It took a few weeks to get them but were pretty easy to install.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

More Fence


So obviously I have not had the baby or I wouldn't be posting stuff on this blog.
The fence is done now (gates are in, trellis is finished)

Unfortunatedly our raspberries that used to live in the corner there didn't make it through the construction.

That smaller section by the wall of the house is the gate to our neighbor's yard.

We just got our house letters so I'll try to install them today or tomorrow. Stay tuned..

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

House, Fence and No Baby Yet...

Baby #2 is still baking in the oven. In the mean time, I thought I'd post some new pictures:


Here's an updated photo of the house, with all the paint work done. Trim around windows is still incomplete but we're still waiting for the new countertop to come in before Dugan will spend a whole week here finishing up the odds and ends.

In the mean time, my neighbors have decided to redo their fence and since we share one fence with them, we agreed to do it, as well as the back portion of ours. It was a do-it-yourself bamboo fence before that taught me to stop trying to build stuff and stick to designing. This fence was actually not designed by me, but by my neighbors and I think it works really well with our house too!

This is the fence between our 2 houses. The gap there on the right will be a gate that will allow our kids access to both yards. The fence is not done yet - there sill be a trellis along the top of it along the entire length between our houses and we plan on planting some sort of vine, maybe clematis or grapes.

That shorter fence is our back fence, which leads to the back alley.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

The Clock is Ticking

Doctor says the baby could come as soon as this week so the clock is ticking!! Looks like we won't be able to get 100% completion on this house before #2 comes since the fireslate is still not available yet, which also means our backsplash can't be installed. So close...yet so far away.
At least we have the baby's room set up - minimally. I think that's the extent of my efforts these days....

Derek got me some deck furniture for our anniversary so now we can finally sit outside.
The deck rail was designed to keep kids from climbing up but unfortunately it also keeps them from seeing what's going on out there so here's our make shift solution.