Crazy Busy

That is probably an understatment...

House wise:
-The deck is done! Well not exactly all the way finished, but we can walk out of both the kitchen door and the French doors (that we had built in when we first moved here 5 years ago... ) Yeah, no more 3 foot drop!! We have also stained the deck so the winter rain and snow will not hurt it... all the rains we have had, the water just beads up on our new cedar deck. We still have the stairs to do on the next nice weekend, then next spring/summer we will put up the railing and possibly a pergola. Pictures of progess on the deck will come in the next post.
- There are two other major winterizing projects we need to do soon... not sure really which will happen first, but they are digging a wide trench in the front so we can attempt to stop flooding (and eventaully fill in that massive hole in a few years). The trench will continue the flow of the water into the wetlands, instead of pooling in our front yard. The other project is new gutters around the house... the ones up there have holes and the down spouts are leaking.

Us wise:
We are all good. Isabelle is keeping us busy every second with her painting and coloring and plwaying outside. She is everywhere all the time... she doesn't walk, she runs! We are still working on the potty training and she is starting to love more compicated puzzles and she's learning her letters. Eric is working as always, both at work and on all the house improvements. I still have my everyother day schedule at school, still 8th grade science. Coaching Gymnastics still and the season starts in 3 weeks... argh! That means 4am wake-ups and late night meets. I am also continuing my Saturday summer job at a local lumber yard as a sales clerk (which really helped the cost of our new deck). And on top of that I am also working and getting gigs for my photography business.