Our New Truck

The Christmas Blizzard 2006

It seems that anywhere we move, we have a huge storm follow us. We can handle blizzards though, hurricanes aren't as much fun to play in. It took me two hours to drive to work on Wed (usually a 30 min drive) and after an hour at the office, they told us the building was being shut down in 10 mins and to go home. So, I drove another 2 hrs back home. It was nice to have 4-wheel drive, there were a ton of cars that had slid off the road and got stuck. Some got stuck in the middle of the road because the snow was already so deep. The state closed all the freeways from border to border and the airport canceled all its flights from Wed afternoon until Thursday sometime. The whole city of Denver is completely shut down! Event he buses and trains have stopped for a few days. Its kind of eerie to see all the freeways void of any signs of life. We are all stuck in our houses and can't get our cars out of the driveway. The drifts in our yard were about 6 ft tall and where it didn't drift, the snow was at least 2 feet deep. Luckily we still have power and heat. Enjoy the pictures!

PAUL

We shoveled the driveway during the storm on Wed afternoon, but it didn't help. It was completely covered by the next day.

Kopi and I playing in the snow on Wed evening. The snow was still coming down pretty hard.

Our next door neighbor's car was completely burried in a snow drift

The truck got burried in the driveway overnight.

The drifts were almost to the top of our fence.

The snow was over the kids' heads

Stuck in the snow

Our house Thursday morning. The storm is finally relenting and its time to dig out.

Melanie showing us how its done

Our backs are killing us after taking all that snow off the driveway

Melanie taking a break from shoveling

Mommy and Dallin in the driveway.

Dallin and I taking a break

After shoveling our driveway, I tried to take the truck out for a spin. I got about this far before I got stuck!

We tried to pull the kids in the sled but the snow was way to deep to walk around in.

Digging out with our neighbors

Here's how the city finally plowed our street. Even this thing was getting stuck too.

August 2006

The painted the outside this week. 3 and 1/2 weeks to go!

It's looking more like a house!

It's almost finished!

We've been taking this same shot through-out the construction.

Looking down the stairs.

The hardwood floor for the entry way is in along with all the baseboards and molding. All of the walls have been textured and painted too.

The kitchen cabnets are in and ready for the countertop. The flooring is all in too except the carpet.

I couldn't get upstairs to take pictures of the bathrooms, but the banaster looks great!

kitchen and stairs from living room

all sheet rocked

after sheet rock and mud

This is standing in the family room looking toward the kitchen.

The put the rocks up last week.

Heres our house in Denver. It will be finished in sept/oct '06.

Heres our backyard. We will sod it next spring. That split rail fence has to stay for our back fence because of HOA mandates. We'll plan on lining it with large lilac bushes.

The back of our house in Denver

This is the house we are going to buy (if all goes as planned)

our house....maybe

side, close up

side of the house

upstairs, master bedroom on the right and a bedroom on the left.

front door and stairs from family room

stairs

Kitchen and dining room

The existing houses in the subdivision

Dallin again

Liz and Dallin

Dallin wide awake after his bath