Week 4-Framing cont.

The boys touring the garage area...who am I kidding...they are looking for nails to throw into the street....

The second walls are going up!!!!

It's amazing what a day can do. Tonight was special, because we got to tour the home with our sales lady. It was so nice to step inside and see our HOME!!!

This is a view of the front. The boys (for some reason) LOVED this closet.

They thought they were funny and cute jumping in and out of it.

This is a picture of me standing in the family room, looking into the kitchen. You can see the pantry framed in. The wood boxes on the floor are approx where the island will be. The sink will be below the window.

A view standing on our kitchen, looking out our kitchen patio doors.

Standing in the kitchen, looking into the family room.

Sam, waiting patiently to go to Soccer Practice!

This happens to be one of my favorite pictures (below). This window speaks "home". The picture perfect farm land....we hope and pray one day this will still be here, but I'm sure this someday will all be built up. It is just so peaceful back there. You hear the birds flying through the sky and the leaves hitting each other. It is truly a WI picture.
One of the greatest parts of living in Grafton will be the variety. You enter the subdivision off a busy road. You can hear the humm of cars as they drive on the highway. Some days you can hear the train blow it's horn. Some days you can hear kids riding their bikes up and down the street. Other days you hear wind...lots of it. You turn south and you can almost see the Downtown skyline in the clouds.

You exit our neighborhood from the north and you can see the dairy farm smack dab in front of you. The large mommy cow just had her babies and there is just something so pure watching the little calves jump around in the grass. The boys LOVE it! Then, you drive a little further north up the busy road and there is Target, Sendik's (famous Milwaukee super market chain....almost as nice as Oakleaf Publix....it will do for now.) , a brand new hospital, a ton of stores and my all time, hands down favorite...a DRIVE thru Starbucks. Now, Floridians are spoiled. Almost every Starbucks in JAX was drive thru. NOT IN MILWAUKEE!!!! So, this my friends is going to be gold....Brad is already worried.....

Second floor...Sam bedroom?

Sam's view of the neighborhood out his window!!! This could be scary some day. Those are all his little friends :)

Not sure why I took this picture??? Stairs? They are not that exciting are they?

Week 4-Framing cont.

The garage has been added!

The second floor is on it's way up!

Soccer-Summer 2009

Micro Soccer in Full Swing!
Soccer started a few weeks ago. Sam is doing great. Micro soccer consists of 40 ish children running around the field aimlessly. I think we are going to look into "real" soccer as he calls it soon. But, for now, they are having fun learning the basics.

Here is Sam and buddy/neighbor Nico

Sam's Orange Soccer Ball!

Sam and Matthew warming up before practice!

Our Soccer Star

Framing week

Sam narrating the house to brother Matthew
This is the entrance/front

Great Grandma Shirl and Great Papa Foster came up for their summer visit to check out our new home. The boys had a great big story for them to share!

Another view of the house.

Brendan M....your room is in there :)

Day 18 - Let the Framing BEGIN!!!

The boys loving the dirt!

So excited

This is the first floor framing. They started it yesterday and got the entire first floor done. Brad saw all the markings for the actual structure to be started. We got a email below from the builder that said:

Hi Brad & Erin~

I hope all is well. I wanted to let you know that the framers are at your home today working on the first floor. In the next few days you will actual get to see your home go up in frame. Please come by and visit. If you want to walk through the house just call or stop by the model and I will join you. Have a great 4th of July!

Sherry Land
William Ryan Homes
2456 Pawnee Drive
Grafton, WI 53024

More pictures of the first floor. We were standing on our front porch

Looking down into the basement! The boys wanted to go down there oh so bad :)

Sam, with his soccer cleats on!

Before this, I took the boys to Covered Bridge Park in Cedarburg. It was an amazing place and I can't wait to take clients there to take pictures.

This was the best one I got of my darling duo!

asleep anywhere but in a bed

Naps. Typically Sam and I can negotiate a daily nap. He agrees to stay in his room and play...quietly while his brother naps. About an hour goes by, he visits me about 3 times. Then I lay down the threat and he quickly goes in his room and shuts his eyes and dozes off. I just happened to be thinking about him, so I went to check on him sleeping.

This is what I found, and where I found him!

Sometimes you just do what you have to do!!! Matthew was shocked beyond anything to find his brother sleeping in a box! That's my little Sammy pirate :)

Day 21 - Wood Delivered (and garbage cans!)

Day 5 - Basement insulation installed

The boys screamed from their seats in the car, "LOOK MOMMY...the basement is painted PINK". I was so excited. The pink room I will never get to decorate!!!! Indeed they were correct. Pink basement walls it was. The insulation arrived and is complete. Now we wait until the walls dry. Soon soon soon the structure will be up and we will see what our home is going to look like!!!

Matthew singing to the neighbors..."you better watch out, you better not pout, Matthew Joseph is coming to town!" Sam so excited!
Here is our garage

Boys in heaven to be in the rocks with their crocks :)

Dirty dirty hands...oh my.

Sam so excited he started hugging and kissing Sam's back!!!! He said, "soon matthew we will have a house!". Precious. Priceless days.

PK3, Sam, CHECK!

With a little interruption in schooling, Sam finished PK3 at the JCC. We asked Mr. Jeff and Ms. Lisa to pose for a picture, and they were delighted to. Sam had a good few months at school in WI. He met some great friends! There is a 50% chance that if we choose this school for next year, Matthew would have this room as well. We are still undecided about preschool for next year as both boys will go. It is so so sad to me that my babies are growing!

Throughout the school year, Mr. Jeff and Ms. Lisa put together a list of questions. Every week they would ask the children the question, the children would answer and the teachers would post the answers outside in the hall. I want to remember some of these questions as I really did laugh out loud every time I passed!

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A Firefighter

Why don't snakes have feet?

They stomp

Why does a sticker stick?
we put it on paper

Why does the sun not fall out of the sky?

It sticks to the sky

Where does God Live?

In the sky

Why is the sky blue?

The clouds are blue to match

Why don't Monkey's live on the farm?
They don't like farmers

Why does a boat float?

When the wind comes it floats the boat

If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?

Seeds

My mom rocks because...?

She brings me pictures

Where do bug live in the winter?
I don't care...I don't like bugs!

His teachers both truly enjoyed Sam this year. They often joked with me that if they had a whole class of Sam's their job would be easy! Now it's onto Soccer, Tennis and swimming in the summer!

Day 3 - Basement walls

Here are the basement walls going up! It was so cool to see the crane lifting the walls up and putting them into the basement. We met another new neighbor today! She was awesome and we got another warm welcome into the neighborhood!