We had our own mini Extreme Home Makeover moment today as we watched the old house get demolished. Here is what the old house looked like minutes before the trucks arrived to tear it down. Note: I was on my way to the gym, I normally don't wear capris in the winter. It's very convenient that we can sit across the street at Gene and Danas house (our 1st Boise house) and watch the project unfold from their couch. I'll follow up with pictures of the house completely removed soon.
We had a birthday party filled weekend. One party on Saturday, one on Sunday and we just finished up a party this afternoon at Planet Kid. I had to thouroughly dissinfect Meredith and I after that adventure, total germ factory - but fun! Yesterday we had Kelly Goulets 2nd birthday party. Dyan made an awesome Elmo cake that tasted as good as it looked.
Kelly and her cake.I really need to work on getting our house plans into a PDF. My pictures just aren't cutting it. Here is the latest and FINAL exterior. We ditched the four columns for a more traditional look. The old house is coming down tomorrow and Saturday. So stay tuned for demo pictures!
There is an incredible amount of snow in McCall this year. We had fun playing in all the fluffy powder this weekend with Grandpa Gene and Grandma Dana. It takes about 45 min. to get Meredith fully geared up for going outside. Then after about 15 min she wants to go inside. She didn't care for sledding herself but thought it was great fun to watch the rest of us go down the huge piles of snow in our driveway. She also liked when Granpa would throw her in the snow.
1...2...3...jump!
Then a snow angel
The wagon still gets used even in the winter
It was the end of May before this snow pile melted last year, I'm guessing it'll be about July this year!
Ava got a new sleeping bag for Christmas, Meredith tried it out and thought it was pretty cool.
We've reached the "safe zone" at 12 weeks with baby #2. I decided to take pictures of my growing belly like I did with Meredith. I think I'm going to be bigger this time around!
12 weeks with Meredith
12 weeks with #2Yesterday Miss Ava Porter turned 2 and had a big party with all of her best buddies. For those of you who don't know, the Porters are our cabinmates and good friends. Note the cupcakes...I managed to eat 1.5 of them plus a regular piece of cake. Eating for two is going to be the death of me! Thanks for the great food Porters.
Meredith really wanted to tear into Avas presents. So hard to resist!
It's been an incredible snow year so far in central Idaho. I guess we shouldn't be suprised that a huge tree branch fell on our deck this week at the cabin. It might be time for a new railing!
My first post in the new year, very exciting. More exciting is the big news that we are expecting our second bundle of joy in August! After many, many months of "trying" we are thrilled to spread the news. I am due August 3rd and so far I haven't been feeling that great. A couple more weeks and I'll be into my second trimester and hopefully feeling a bit better. 