Its starting. . .

The new roof is starting to be built! I can hardly believe it, but its really gonna happen!

We have a flat roof - well it has a very low pitch, but practically flat. This flat roof has seen better days, and the back part has been leaking for a while now. So - a new roof is being built by my husband and father - complete with a pitch and everything!

Some lovely holes cut into my ceiling in order to find the source of the leak.

Measurements have been taken, plans have been drawn up. . .

I guess people really do use geometry in real life.

Yeah! I'm so excited. This is only the early stages, and it will still take a few weeks before it is finished, since my dad is going out of town for a couple of weekends coming up. But I see a roof on the horizon. Thank goodness David is handy and my dad is a contractor.

Fun baby

Jackson loves to wiggle and squiggle. He is trying to crawl, and usually ends up with his head planted firmly in the ground and his caboose straight up in the air. We found him in a position like that while asleep in his crib.

He loves his saucer. . . as long as we are paying close attention to him while he is in it.

And he loves to eat his feet.

And, he loves his Johnny Jump-Up, thanks Becky!

Flashback Friday

New York City

I lived here the summer of 2003, with my good friend Amy who was also one of my favorite missionary companions. We served in Honduras together and she was my first gringa comp - which meant speaking English and washing our clothes in a bucket of soapy water, cutting our laundry time from 3 hours to 15 minutes.

Here we are eating some tasty watermelon in greenwich village...

This is the outside of our beautiful sublet in Inwood manhattan, our fire escape is the one with the yellow flower which the super made me move a few days later. . .

The inside of our crib. . .

And some curtains we made trying to beautify the place...

I love and miss New York and Amy.

Funny Baby

Flashback Friday

I think it is fun to look at old pictures, so on Fridays I'm going to post an oldie and tell its story.

These are pictures of Jasper's baptism, when he was 8 years old (over 2 years ago). He looks so young, it's hard to believe I really knew him then, but I did. David and I had been dating a couple months when he was baptized. Such handsome guys. Jasper wanted his uncle Dave to baptize him, and his uncle Todd to do the confirmation. This is a good memory.

Goings on

What's going on at our house?

Well. . . Jackson is a genius baby in my humble opinion. He rolls over and over and over, and will move himself across the room that way. He has started to love cereal. . sometimes. He loves to laugh and smile and is doing better at sleeping through the night. I'm trying to get him on a better routine, and it is making him a much happier baby. He loves the outdoors.

And we got Jasper in a new baseball league this year. He seems pretty excited. His first practice was yesterday, and the coach wants them to practice everyday. EVERYDAY! What? That will be too crazy for me, but I guess we'll find a way to work it out. Man, sports are very time consuming in this house. If they aren't on the television, then there is a practice or a game. Oh well, it is better than lazing around the house doing nothing or becoming a hooligan and getting into mischief.

I found this note attatched to one of Jasper's homework assignments.

#15 Famous people usually have an escort with them because: "robberers will try to steel there gift cards."

Pretty funny, kid.