Halloween 2013

I went all out this year and made every costume, well, at least the parts that aren't normal clothes.  I started wondering what I had gotten myself into a couple weeks before Halloween, but the day was saved by a friend.  We had a family staying with us for a bit and the wife is quite the seamstress. She helped me make the girls' dresses.  It did take a fair amount of time, but I'm pretty proud of how it turned out.  It was Elle's idea to do the Greek Gods this year. Next year  is Arrested Development.  Themes are quite fun, as long as everyone agrees.  Brigham turned 12 today too, but we'll celebrate that tomorrow.  Both he and Elle went off on their own trick or treating.  First year we haven't been all together as a family.  My babies are growing up.  We have my mom and dad here so they were able to hold down the fort while we were out with the kids.  I'm not used to living in a popular neighborhood so we ran clean out of candy.  Mom pulled out a box of popcorn to start giving away once the candy ran out.

Aphrodite just found out she's not the cutest girl in the world.

Oh, Poseidon told a funny joke.

Poseidon does not smile!

Artemis forgot she's a huntress, not the Goddess of love.

Ares will cut your head off like that.

Or just disembowel himself.

Suction arrows aren't scary.

Stephanie Persephone = Perstephanie

Clash of the Titans

House Tour

If you want to waste 16 minutes of your life, click here for a video tour of our house.  You'll probably want to mute it so you can't hear the construction noise and my huffing and puffing.

October House Update

Jacob here.  It seems the last house updates were back in January and February and we never posted pictures of the house after it was completed.  Time to rectify that. We finished it up in July, right on schedule. Haha. At any rate, here are some pictures of the exterior and some of the 1st floor (kitchen mostly).

We'll get some trees planted next spring.

Very nice gentleman named Bruce from our ward helped me cut the lettering on the address plate using his CNC router.

Exterior entrance to the basement

That's the backyard through the double doors

I haven't finished the column trim, but the hard part is done now

Looking toward the front of the house from the kitchen, pantry on the left at the base of the stairs, tower room on the right through the glass door

This is a little bit blury, but this is looking from the tv room down the hall toward the front door (to the right of the mirror).  The barrel ceiling turned out great I think although it could use some more trim work (someday)