Moving

As always, moving was an adventure. Many, many special thanks to the following people for helping us last weekend:

• Vineyard (church) friends - Bill and Katie Iverson, Ty Coleman, Bryan HR
• Parents - Both Amy and my parents
• Knutson Construction - Casey and others for loading and unloading the container (pod)
• Jeff Koenig - Our builder who also helped with unloading the Knutson truck
• Culvers Landscaping - Helped with moving wood play equipment from a house down the street.

Without your help we could have never made this happen so quickly and smoothly!

There were a few funny stories along the way, but all in all things went much quicker than expected and fairly smoothly. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm still a bit sore and recovering slowly. You can see a couple pictures below of our Beverly Hillbillies style moving. This is a long and funny story that you'll have to ask us about sometime.

Another highlight would be part of the "moving team" getting to ride in the cargo area of the U-haul to try to go fetch some playground equipment. Shhh, don't tell U-haul as I later spotted a sticker on the front dash restricting use of the cargo area to passengers such as this.

Grading and Landscaping

Culver's has completed a couple of large retaining walls and they did a fabulous job. Not only do they look great and structurally are what we needed, their staff came in full force and completed this work in a short amount of time which was much appreciated.

Following the completion of the retaining walls, Big Timber came in and did a wonderful job with grading out our lot (which was a bit of a challenge).

Near Completion!

Well, I know it has been a long time since posting so where do we even begin.......Let's start with the fact that we are moved into our new home!!!!! I apologize for the lack of postings and any recent pictures of the house or kids but it has been beyond hectic here with the floods, finishing the house, moving, etc. However, we are so excited as Amy and I spent our first night together in the new house this past Saturday and all of us as a family Sunday night. The house is wonderful as are our peaceful and beautiful surroundings. I plan to make additional posts in the near future with regards to the kids, the flood, and moving; but I'll start with some overall pictures of the exterior of the house. I do not have any finished pictures of the back but will get those soon and add them to the post.