Shan's suprise this morning

So Shan got a real treat this morning, taking this picture of a new born fawn just a few days old. If you look at the retaining wall it's a two by twelve. So that little Bambi probably is only twenty five inches tall, brand new, and so cute.

Ok one more before and after

So I can't help to be happy with what we've done here, knowing we have alot we still have on our to do list, but excavating and rolling out our new basketball court was super fun and turned out great. Who wants to lower the rim and have a slam dunk contest?

Nick's Eleven!

Yep our little man clicked off another year with some great fun. Starting off with his favorite dinner at La Hacendia, and Nick had his favorite dinner a Macho Burrito. Check out Nick in the picture. He's pretty much polished it off and in a little pain. Haha. The weather was great, so we took the party to the boat club and oh yea... the boys were in the water in no time. Presents, cake, and party, Happy Birthday Nickers!

Before and after pictures

Mom's Day

We had a special surprise this Mom's Day with Eighty plus degree weather. So we got the boat out for the first time this year and Shan got to hang with her boys on the river. After a nice time on the water we loaded up, dropped the boat off, and went to Jan's for dinner. There was three generations of Mom's there. Shan, Shan's mom Jan, and Jan's mom Gigi. I got Shan a put-together picnic table and we all put it together and painted it for our very special "Mom". We have already used it more then I can count, eating, or just hanging out. A great Mom's day for sure.

What a great Mom's day.

Transformation

The excavation has been going on for several weeks to make the shift from no driveway, very old and broken concrete, overgrown trees, overgrown landscaping and a lot of black berry's removed, we have reset landscape and it turned out fantastic. We have a new driveway and a new patio carved in (which Shan has already started to arrange). There is also a nice three car pad that will have the new boat canopy hopefully up this weekend. We installed underground power, internet, phone, and cable tv to the office/shop as well as adding a french drain. The excavation turned out great, and can't hardly wait to rake it out, compact it and finish it. Farm Animal Update - the Chickens are snuggling out in the

chicken coop and are growing fast. As for Norman and Chewy, they finally got teeth and they are eating a lot more everyday, and I mean everything! You can't help to love those two little boys. They are so affectionate and loving. They will follow you to the end of the earth nibbling on everything along the way.

House update

Thanks to Eric and his great work on the excavator, the driveway is almost in with a 3 car carport pad. All of the old concrete,landscaping,half dead trees, scrubs, and a lot of the blackberry bushes are gone. The elevation has been leveled, and we installed a French drain to protect the foundation. The French drain is huge wall of bed rock installed into a deep trench that wraps around the house with a perfer

ated pipe at the bottom to catch all the water before it gets to the foundation. Also we ran all new electric conduit from the house to the office/shop under ground.