Liam Turns One

We had 3 birthday parties for Liam--lucky boy

One at Grandma&Grandpa Frisby's. Grandma Cathy made a big dinner for everyone. Thanks Grandma!

I made him a chocolate cake and he LOVED it





He opened presents



We went out as a family on his real birthday




And we shared a birthday party with his cousin Katalina. (did you get better pics, Tricia?)

Our House This Week

The First Trusses

Cody Setting trusses

All the trusses up

Interior Walls--Hallway

Interior Walls

More house pics

This Saturday we built the exterior walls with the help of Steve, Cade and Clint.
THANKS GUYS!!!

Here's what it looked like at the beginning of the day

And here's what it looked like at the end
(this pic was taken on Sunday)

The stairs have been in for a few days, but here's a picture

This is our back door

Our front door

The far window is Liam's room and the near one is Mariah's.
As we walked through Mariah said, "Daddy! you forgot the roof?"

Another view of the outside

Mind of Mariah

As we were driving today...

Mariah: mommy, where does macy live?
Me: Washington
Mariah: Where's Washington
Me: Far away...over the mountains
Mariah: Where the penguins live?
Me: Oh, do the penguins live in the snowy mountains over there?
Mariah: yeah
Me: Penguins live in Antarctica on a big block of ice....like on Happy Feet.
Mariah: oooOOOoooohhhhh. it's cold?
Me: yeah
Mariah: we can't live there. We would need to wear coats.... or save our money and buy penguin costumes

Building skills

We are having tons of fun building. Cody has a bunch of experience and i totally dig his saw skills....nailing skills....wall building skills.
i, on the other hand, have never done anything like this and am excited to say that i can use a circular saw now...something i never ever thought of doing before. i'm not perfect, but I get better every time. And I used the nail gun today...still suck at it. Anyway, i'm totally loving it. It is seriously so much fun.

here are the most recent pics of the house. We took these while we were building basement walls on Saturday.


here are Cody and Chad building our basement walls. Thanks for coming Chad.

That was Saturday. As of today, the stairs and the main floor are in. We're proly doing exterior walls this Saturday.

Stuff we're doing

Here's what we've been doing.

Liam cut his first 2 teeth in the last 2 weeks...ish (one on the 24th and one today). Finally.

Cody turned 27 on March 27th and had a great magic birthday. We went out for a night in SLC. Thanks mom and dad for watching the kids. We had a wonderful time and it was a good opportunity to charge up for the next few months of NO breaks.

Mariah got to have 2 egg hunts: one at G&G Wilsons and one at G&G Frisbys. She loved it.

And for the last couple of days, Liam has been doing a lot of this:

Foundation

We went to the site again today. Mariah saw that there were no stairs and said,

"We need a ladder...or a plane to fly in."

Then she noticed the bare concrete and said,
"We need to paint the walls."

Here's our basement. It's finally starting to feel real.