Our Kitchen, the continued saga ...

All that insulation, the loose stuff (ugh!), is being shifted out of the kitchen ceiling area up in the attic space.  That way when we take the ceiling out and re-frame the ceiling level with the breakfastroom, we can then re-use the insulation.  That's Ricky above, in the attic, wearing a mask and getting to it!  Another reason for this is so when the ceiling gets taken down, we won't have a bunch of this stuff floating around in the air in our house or dropping into the kitchen area!

Next step, waiting for the framer who will help do our ceiling job!  Any week now  . . . . humm . . . .

Soccer for the first time

Brooke is enjoying her first experience playing soccer.  You can't tell that she really likes it!

Austin's tennis clinic

Austin has been taking a tennis clinic regularly and really enjoying it!  He's been playing for 2 year now.

Easter Sunday Sunrise Service, 2011

Woke the kids up at 5:30am Easter Sunday to do a 25 minute hike up some hills for our church service.  It was cold and rainy.  The kids were troopers and it was a wonderful experience!

Kitchen Progress ... Step One

We had the cabinet pros out here last Sunday with Ricky for the cabinet layout.  They took out the cabinets they can use for the kitchen, measured, and noted where they will go.  It took a good 2 1/2 hours. 
Waiting on the demo date!!!!

Running, running, gone!! Cami's trail race experience

I ran my first trail race this past Sat., the Diablo Trails Challenge.  I did the 10k, up hills in the mud, rain, and through knee deep streams.  It was awesome and challenging.  I fell twice, slipping from the heavy mud.  It felt like running in sand as I never got real good footing.  Hopping down the hills was fun and hard as I had torked my body in ways I never thought was possible to avoid falling.  My good friend joined me and now our goal is to run a 1/2 marathon next year.  Here's the link of the race to show how muddy it was!  www.brazenracing.com/diablo.html
I've always enjoyed running all my life, did a few short course triathlons in college, and then I had kids.  Now, ten years later, I've managed to run and maintain my interest and ability to now join in some fun races.
The weekend of Sept. 17, 2011, I will participate in the Ragnar Relay 24 hour race from SF to Napa Valley.
You can check out this race at http://www.ragnarrelay.com/.  I'm one of 6 women and there are 6 men on our team of 12.  We will each run three different legs of this race until 24 hours is up and we reached the finishline.  It's going to be on heck of an experience!  Let the training begin!!!!

Ceiling . . . be gone

I think one of the very first steps is to remove this fake ceiling you see above.  That's going to be a lot of labor and then building some support beams for new sheetrock.  Why do they ever put these in?  We will get more light once it's out.  Currently the lights in the ceiling are somewhat shadowed.  I'm ready!  Where's the hammer!