Joe and Brigitte

Life isn’t all about the house these days.  We have been keeping busy with all sorts of non-house related things, mostly just spending time together as a family at the lake.  Boy Emma sure does love going there, she is constantly talking about going out on the boat and asking to drive the boat.  I guess she is still a lake kid.  Last summer we purchased a two seat bike trailer in anticipation of taking family bike rids together, we never really found a good opportunity to use it until last weekend.  Emma had a blast riding in the trailer, she kept yelling ‘faster! faster!’  I think she is going to be into extreme sports some day. :p

I did mention it was picture time, so here are a couple of pictures from Emma’s 2 year shots along with our family picture.

We assumed that nothing would happen on our house over the weekend, but when we stopped by on Sunday morning on our way to the park we had a bit of a surprise waiting for us.  The basement walls are up, drain tile is installed, pea rock is in the basement and the sides of the walls have been sealed.  It’s amazing to me how quickly things have been happening, I am sure there will be some where it doesn’t look like anything has been done. When Joe and I first saw the excavation we started worrying about how small the house was going to be, we both know in our heads that it isn’t small, but it looked small even after the walls were poured.  Now that all the forms are off though and we have been getting a much closer look at things there are no concerns about the size.

The basement