Our luck

This week has been a tough week for our family. We went to a meeting Tuesday night to hear everything the builder wants to know and issues he has. We found out quickly that his issues are his but trying to push stuff onto us. He is doing this by not fulfilling the contract as stated. Travis and I spent all night Thursday (until 3am) and all day Friday (well, Travis did a little more since I needed to still be mom and take care of all 3 kids) preparing for our meeting that expressed our side as well as minor answers to finish they wanted to know. I won't go into too much more since there is a lot. Most who talk to me realize there is a lot going on and I have no problem expressing my opinion on the subject.

Well, on our way home from the meeting last night, something hit the driver side window while we were passing a truck and the window shattered. It sounded like a gun shot. Travis, Brayden, and I were in the van at the time. We are all fine. Brayden and I were startled by the sound, and myself with the shattering of glass. I was looking at Travis when it happened. I can't speak for Travis, but I know it surprised him while he was driving. I am just glad the three of us do not have any glass injuries. With the stress of the meeting we just went to we started to laugh. I guess a window breaking wasn't that much compared to the stress of fighting for what was agreed on already. We just don't have too much luck with cars in our family.

Brayden's First Fall

Brayden has decided to start pulling himself up to standing about a couple of weeks now. (right now he is 7.5 months old) Recently he has decided that trying to take a few steps would be fun. Of course he is not stable enough to actually go to far yet. In fact, as my attention was briefly away from him when he decided to lunge for the TV stand. He fell and hit his head on the bottom edge of our TV stand. I quickly applied pressure to stop the bleeding as I called the doctor and neighbor for help. We drove up to the clinic, they had me go straight to the surgeon with him since the "gash" was longer than 1 inch and probably need stitches. The surgeon said I responded well, and that he would not need stitches. He did need to glue the cut shut. Brayden is doing much better. He is healing very well. Since he likes to look at the camera I could not get a very good picture of the cut for him to brag about later in life. Travis informs me that this is a first of many bumps, cuts, and bruises he will have. These pictures were taken 24 hours after the fall.

Nice Weather

This tent has been squished in our living room a few times this winter.

We were all happy to see them play with it outside.

Here is Brayden trying to "help" Becca with the blocks.

We finally got a string of nice weather lately. The kids had a great time playing outside with Dad. They are not enjoying the rain today. Brayden is starting to enjoy snack time and lunch time with the girls on their little table.

House Update

Well, not too much to update on the house. I know that is not good news. They poured the concrete for the garage 2 weeks ago. Last week they worked on putting up the garage. I am not sure if the roof is complete yet or not. We were there Sunday and it was not done yet. I hope they got the roof on with all this rain. Last week we met with a new "employee" from the contractor we are using. We found out that the drafter (yet again) missed some structural issues or there are issues because the builder did not read the plans. Either way, there are yet more decisions to make. They are guessing that they should be done with the house around the beginning of June. Hopefully we can sign in the middle of June.

The kids love going to see the new house. Marisa still wants a dog house built in the backyard. Well, off to chase after the kids.