House Progress

Last weekend JJ's company (Ernst & Young) flew him out to do some recruiting at BYU. He came up to spend a day with us before he had to get to work. (We are all looking into the sun in the above picture. Considering I took it with my outstretched left arm, I think it turned out pretty good!)

The staircase to the loft was too steep, so we re-did it and turned it into two levels, as you can see in the above picture.

This is the stray cat that took shelter in our house for a few weeks. Dad named the cat Baxter after Uncle Dale's stray cat. It took some convincing, but I was able to take the kitten to the vet. They told us she's a girl! Shortly thereafter we got her some tests, shots and had her spayed. She's been recovering from her surgery in our guest room for the last few days.

Baxters original habitat (aka the fireplace in the basement of the big house).

Although she's very sweet and cuddly, she's also very curious and energetic. I've been slowly introducing her to Freckles, and he seems excited to have a little sister. I think she's intimidated by him because he's so much bigger than her, so she tries to go on the attack. They chase each other all around the house, and its exhausting! I follow them around to make sure they don't seriously hurt each other, because I'm not sure where the line is between playing and fighting. Hopefully they'll start getting along better soon.

Here's an up-close picture of what our siding looks like.

Mom & Dad standing in front of the main house. The siding is all up, and now our next step will be to put up natural looking stone on the opposite side of the house. (August 2009)

The view of the houses from the driveway, with lots of construction work going on. (August 2009)
The guest house, with its siding mostly up. (August 2009)