Monday, September 29, 2008

Progress and what else...camping!

The work continues at a nice clip. Below you see the wall forms being built up. The rest of them are stacked up on the trailer in back.



With the exception of a few, here is the mostly completed wall.
Monty loves all of the construction action!
The concrete arrives as the guys finish bracing all the forms.
Unfortunately, it rained a little here over the weekend and the ground is a little wet. The concrete truck got a little stuck in the soft ground. But a little gravel thron under the tires and it was "unstuck" in no time!
Here comes the first concrete!
It took two trucks with seven yards each to finish the entire wall, but it got done in lightning speed!
Dean checking levels.
Taken from the girls' bedroom upstairs looking down.

In addition to the construction, we also went camping this weekend. Here the kids gather wood for kindling.
How many times do you think you'll ever see a Pre-K teacher in penguin pajamas chopping wood?? This is Sue, she happens to be Luci's UPK teacher, and we've been friends for more than 20 years now!
The kids decided they wanted to have their own campsite, so the moms (Julie, Sue and I) along with the kids grabbed all kinds of stuff from our campers and went to town. Here they are in the little pup tent. L to R, Jeb and Darien (Sue's), Drew, Hannah(Julie's) and Luci.
This how Ghostyville started.
But this is what we ended up with!
Here's Luci dancing away to my iPod tunes!

Extreme close-up of Darien! Isn't she a cutie?
And Jeb gave me his best Yeti face! (They played Yeti all weekend long!)
Sue with her Michael Jackson garden version glove, giving a rocking sign while Dean looks just like he's grabbing for her butt!
And it couldn't be a camping weekend without the requisite water-war!
Here's Ghostyville at night when you can see all the lights!
All in all, we had Jim and Julie, Dean and I, Sue and then Amy S. and seven kids total! The kids had a ball and the weather, for the most part cooperated waiting until bedtime to really pour!



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