Sunday 18 September 2011

September 18th, 2011
HEY, GUYS!
reading through my last couple posts, i realized that i introduced you to a robin and then never followed up with news of the visitors!
brace yourselves though.. the ending isn't a happy one :(
we were expecting the robin's eggs to hatch a couple days after we left for nova scotia......which they did! three little baby robins (who i don't have pictures of) came into this crazy world...inside our house! sadly though, micheal, who was working on the house while we were away came in one morning and found the three little babies and their nest on our floor.. dead :( HOW SAD! it really is quite unfortunate, but yano. there was nothing we could have done :(
on a happier note though, recently, we discovered the water line to our house! WEOOOO, now, i had no idea what the significance of this discovery was until dad filled me in!
turns out that since we found the water line, we don't have to pay the town to dig up the road and find it! ..and according to the father, it would have been a TREMENDOUS cost.. SO YAY! WATER! ..however, even after we've been connected and stuff, the water isn't working for some reason! thankfully though, it's the town's expense to figure out why it's not working!
it's weird because the pictures below are sort of like 
Déjà vu! you're probably thinking "wait.. what? you've dug up a big chunk of your yard to find the water line before?" ...and the answer is yes. when we first moved to port hawkesbury, nova scotia back in 2008, we bought a VERY old house. 150 years old or something like that! anyways, our plumbing and water randomly stopped working and since it wasn't a problem within the house itself, dad had to borrow a little tractor and dig up our yard. as it turns out, one of the pipes had collapsed and wasn't allowing water (or other stuff) to pass through! sure, it doesn't sound THAT bad.. but paint this picture in your mind... six people, no toilet, one week. TALK ABOUT GROSS. hahaha, i had planned to upload pictures of the first "big dig" as well.........but those pictures aren't on this computer! ..so i'll get them up later :)

OH LOOK, a tractor :)

 DIRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTT.
 it's like a perfectly placed tunnel right to a door that isn't supposed to be there :)
 just diggin' away :)
 muskwa debating whether or not she should jump!
 water pipes :)
 aweeeeeee :)
 we dug the hole by hand, obviously ;) 
SO MUCH DIRT. 
 oh look, dad's building a temporary fire pit :)
 momma and the pizza!
 PIZZA!
 lol, rebecca.
 rebecca's friend saaaaaaam :)
 beautiful.
 technology rules. 
 isaiah being a curious little fella.
 micheal coming down off the roof with a 50 pound bag of shingles!
and again! 
 climbing the treeeee.
 cutee :)

Wednesday 7 September 2011

better late than never... right?

September 7th, 2011.
haha..........heeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy...
so am i the only one...or does it seem like summer just FLEWWWWWW by? it seems like just yesterday i finished my last exam and walked out of the school doors looking forward to a whole two months of relaxation and fun! WELL, i had an AMAZING vacation, but i can't believe it's already september! the fact that today was our first official day back at school just blows my mind! i can see (going into grade eleven) that it's going to be a super insane busy year with homework, studying, and trips to the orthodontist in hay river (did i mention rebecca and i both got braces?)... i'm not sure i'll even have time to breathe D: i'm sure i, as well as the rest of our family will eventually get back into the groove of things, but i mean, sometimes i can't help but worry! haha, so enough about that, ON TO THE HOUSE!
sooooooooooooo much has happened in the past two months. i mean, the change between the photos from today compared to the photos in my last blog is absolutely astounding! but hey, don't take it from me ;) check out the photos! 

awkward first day of school photos <3  


SEE WHAT I MEAN? like, two months and the house is pretty much THERE...how absolutely insane, right?
this is inside the garage :) check out the double doorage! haha, top door goes into a hallway that leads into the dining room and the parents' room :) ..bottom door leads to the basement!
SIDE VIEW. that would be the.. living room.. and the area without windows is the kitchen!
from the back! the far end would be mom and dad's room and the other windows on the main floor are the dining room and kitchen. top floor are daniel and isaiah's rooms!
DIFFERENT SIDE. haha, mom and dad's room as well as the garage! OH HAI, MICHEAL..
............we still don't have steps to the front door.. this ramp is getting more and more terrifying to climb D:
mom and dad's AMAZING bathtub! it's got jets and everything! SOJEALOUS.
their separate showerrrrrr... and a ladder..haha
when you first walk in through the front door, it leads you here! .. to the office :)
CAREFUL......no stairs to the basement either.. 
AWEEEEE, doesn't our living room look cozy!? 
boy's bathroom..upstairs!
WIRES. ohhey, did i mention the electrician also came in and we now have electricity? EXCITINGGGG.
this is the window above the stairs :) 
the girl's bathroom! haha, currently getting plumbing fixtures attached to the tub :)
MY ROOM! can i just say, i absolutely loooooooove it! 
haha, just a random photo of our ceiling.. before the insulation and drywall!
the living room.. birds eye view ;) 
HOLYMAN, ALMOST FORGOT. WE GOT A DOOR KNOB! THAT LOCKS AND EVERYTHING! :D hooooooooow amazing is that!!!
this is what the house looks like from across the street :) .. haha, oh yeah, AND MICHEAL.. who's posing.. haha, on the roof .. he was shingling :)

Saturday 16 July 2011

room for one more?

July 16th, 2011
WELL LONG TIME NO SEE! being summer an' all i haven't really gotten around to updating the site.. but mom, dad.. and many others have been nagging at me, SO I'M BACK :D i dunno about all you guys, but so far, summer has been great! not only do i have a wicked tan (it's only on the upper half of my back.. but yano)  , but i turned sixteen this past week! i've met a couple new friends, and i'm off to nova scotia in a couple of days! yes, the wonderful days of pie for breakfast and cake for lunch are here at last, and i'm enjoying every minute! but about the house!
i took the following pictures TODAY. yeah, recent, IIIIIIII know ;D BUTBUTBUT, in this post, there's not only pictures of the house to look forward too....no, there's a lovely little guest who's called a little crevice in our soon-to-be kitchen "home" :D so i'll just keep you in suspense until you scroll down and read everything before i tell you who our house guest is ;) 
LOOK, THE RAFTERS HAVE BEEN PUT UP :D ..rafters. hmm. sounds weird. but i do believe that's what they call the little pieces of wood that are the roof's foundation!  
 side view! .. and a lovely little pile of dirt blocking half of the house.. NO BIG THOUGH :D
 OKOKOK, so the little guest is a flying creature. it has a beak, two wings, and a red tummy.. can you guess what it is?
 THAT'S RIGHT! IT'S A ROBIN :D:D:D:D:D:D isn't she gorgeous?
 at this point she was being all freaked out that mom and i had come into the house.. we kinda scared her off..  
 but EVENTUALLY, momma begins to trust that we aren't planning on shooting her with a nerf gun and eating her for dinner :) so she flies back inside and makes herself comfy!
 there she is again :) ...only this time she's giving us the death stare..
 away she flies when micheal comes in to get a piece of wood or something :( 
so when momma leaves the nest, i take the opportunity to climb up a ladder to check out the nest (looking, no touching!). AND LOOK! she's got herself three beautiful little eggs in the most amazing shade of blue i've ever seen! we've done a little research and found out that the eggs should hatch in about two weeks and after they're born, they stay in the nest for another 9 or so days and then they fly the coop :D awe, life. so cute.. especially in bird form :D