Day Trip to Seattle

Today Shelby, Hayley and I ventured to Seattle to take a tour of Cornish College of the Arts.

WOW!!!! What an awesome school. There were all kids who look and act like Shelby and Hayley running around doing art work, acting, photography etc... I would love nothing more but to be able to send them to this college. However, tution for this kind of school is very expensive and so I m looking into scholarships. Let me know if anyone has any ideas!!!!

After the tour we went to Seattle, drug Mike out ofr his work and had lunch with him. It was a good break for him to get out of the office for a moment. He has been working so incredibly hard since we got here.

After lunch we took a walk thru the streets of Seattle. Wow, the people there are a trip. Here are a couple pics of the sites today. Enjoy

Good news!!!

I meant to add this before my whole fence story but I didn't so here it is now.

After 22+ years I have finally located my 3 older brothers!!!! I am so excited about this you have no idea. I have looked and looked and I ended up finding them on classmates.com. Isn't that wild???
Well, as soon as we all talked we started posting pics like crazy on myspace and showing each other our families. It is amazing since we were all so young the last time we say each other.

In fact, one of my brothers, Rudy, lives right here in Washington!! I knew God brought us here for a reason!! We will be getting together for a barbaque soon. It is so awesome. They have all talked to our dad and one even had a chance to go see our dad which was very exciting.

I still can not get over the fact that we are all a family again! I have 9 new neices and nephews. Thats crazy! Now I really have to get on track with birthdays!!!

Enjoy the pic of my brothers

Fence project Pics

Ready to work!

Blank canvas

(the yard, not the kids)

Let the framing begin

Such concentration

What is this,break time???

haha, no way to get over here now

Next weekend we will build the gate and put up some lattice to spice it up!

Fence Project

I know its been awhile. The snow is gone, now we are getting a chance to do some repairs and additions.
Well, when we moved in all the dogs had run of the whole yard. As you can see it has taken a toll on some of the plants and the grass. The ATM&R's got together and built a fence dividing up the yard so the dogs can have room to play on one side and people will have the other side to enjoy!

This could not be done without the help of all 7 of us working as a team. we will be putting up more than what you see here. Mike is going to build a gate and we are going to add some decorative lattice to the top. Then stain everything. It is going to look really nice when we finish!