Road Construction

Our road is getting paved this summer, and boy is it ever a mess!!! Just past our driveway is a HUGE sand pile that we went and climbed on last Sunday :).
This is from down in B&J's yard.

And this is off the top looking back behind us. They're digging the road out and filling it in with sand from the sand pile.

I've recently discovered some camera settings, and so now I always have to play with them :). Doesn't that look cool though?

That sand pile may look like fun to play on, but I am soooooo ready to get rid of it!!! I have to go around the block every day to get to work because of it. And then as if that weren't enough, there's another huge construction project going on my way to work too. Fortunately both lanes are open during the daytime, but it's still solid orange barrels, sand, and machinery everwhere I look. Good grief! Do these people realize that I won't be around here much to enjoy the final product? Obviously not, or they would have postponed all this messy stuff until I moved away. :) Hahaha. Just kidding.

Other than that I guess we haven't had too much exciting and unusual things happening in our neck of the woods. Andrew has some big news that I'm sure he'll post on his blog as soon as he gets home and is awake enough for it ;). But I won't spoil it for him. Also Alex is coming up in less than a week!!! That's definitely exciting and unusual!! :)

Speaking of which, I need to go to bed!!! It's quite early (in the morning) and I am dead dog tired ;). And I'm going to work on packing tomorrow, so I need to store up on energy!!! Goodnight!!!

Kodak Moment

I came home from work the other night and all the kids were here because it was Becky and James' night out. They were all lined up on the couch watching Charlie Brown! :)

Showers of... pigs and john deere hats?

I had a wedding shower on Sunday!! It was with the Hansens (Mom's side of the family), and it was very fun!!! Check it out!!! We got a kitchenaid!!!

I had to post this pic because of Terry's face :) Everybody take note!!!! Haha. That's what you get for picking on Alex so much!!! :)

Just what EVERY bride dreams of getting... a John Deere hat. Uncle Eric is very upset because Alex got me a pink John Deere hat last summer and he is very jealous. So he tries to cover up his jealousy by pretending that he thinks pink is an inappropriate color. His card says, "Here is an appropriately colored John Deere cap. You may now want to discard the other, scandalously inappropriate one." Unfortunately, I can't do that. I have discovered that the pink one goes nicely on my head while the green one is wonderful for draining spaghetti. And Alex just LOVES spaghetti!!! So I thought it was a very kind and thoughtful shower gift!

We got this cool sillacone (however that's spelled!!!) pot holder!!! Isn't it spiffy? Becky and Amanda picked it out for me :). Aren't you all jealous?

So that's all for tonight!!!! Oh yes, in case anybody didn't know, Sara (my sis-in-law) is VERY pregnant and you can see her in the background of a couple of the pics. She's due just about anytime!!!! Technically in about 3 weeks, but you know how that goes. So isn't that exciterating?!?!?