After a long absence, I'm back! It has been a busy 4 months! We've moved into the new house, and Emma had her 2nd birthday. Here's a selection of photos:

Here's Laurie and Emma sitting at the kitchen counter in the new house in the new chairs we bought just after we brought them home. They are really a nice place to sit.


Emma wanting to get the flowers. She does spend a lot of her time standing on the chairs at the counter.

A slightly older view from the living room back toward the kitchen.

I'll get some more recent photos up soon.

Emma in her secret lair. She has been hiding in the cupboard now and again, sometimes grabbing one or both of the portable phones with her.



And the house is coming along really well. This is actually from a few days back, but the exterior is done with the siding and the windows. The railing for the porch was added just in time for the deeper snow, so I don't have a great picture of that. The insulation is going into the attic, but we're a little delayed on getting electric service. The line crews have been called off to around Albany to deal with the ice storm, and they hit rock (big surprise) and that seems to have thrown them entirely off. At least one of the three poles is in place.

Happy Thanksgiving!


The house has made amazing progress in the last two weeks since I posted. The interior framing is in for all the rooms. We went over with a couple of friends and gave a tour the other day. Emma had a great time running around.


The exterior of the house is fully enclosed with windows and doors, and the gable-end detail is in. We really like the houses in the area with the stick-style details, so we had some built for ours, too.

A roof! Its been less than a month, and it went from a plot of ground to a basement, walls, and a roof.


I got this great picture of Emma in what will be the living room. She likes running around in the house but doesn't really know what it is yet.

Ground has been broken on the new house. More than ground, rock. We hit bedrock three feet down. This pile of rock is most of a rock shelf that was ripped up by the backhoe. Emma is very interested in the whole thing.

Once the hole was ready and we got the building permit, the basement walls came in by truck and lowered into place on the gravel. They were then bolted together. When that was done, the floor joists were put on top, then the concrete floor was laid.

Once the subfloor was down, the exterior walls could go up. This was Monday, when we still had good weather. This view is of the dining room, showing the window openings.

They're out there again today, even with the wind and snow showers.