Fun on "the land"

Happy Memorial Day weekend!! A long weekend seems like a perfect time to get caught up on all the blog posts I've been neglecting.

The last 2 weeks have been mostly fun but not overwhelmingly eventful. Since the last post, we've made 2 trips to Peoria - one to celebrate Mother's day and one to visit the kitchen design place and then bug Walter for information/advice, and 2 trips to the "chicagoland area" - one for a Welcome Baby open house for my best friend Sammi's little guy Cooper and one for a wake. But that's not fun, so moving on...

The house stuff is going well. Ryan has been working hard to design/customize a beautiful home for us and it looks amazing on paper (computer monitor). He has also been making calls and appointments getting all the first steps out of the way. So far we (and by "we" I mostly mean "he") have met with the power people to discuss where all the stuff will go, have discussed all the details with the propane people, have met with the excavation guy (side note to the ladies: CUTIE!), have had soil samples taken (not once, but twice) and picked up the neverending forms from CEFCU for the new construction loan.

During all this, we also got a great new camera so that we can document the process of building our first home. Unfortunately, with nothing happening on the land just yet, our pets and family members have been the guinea pigs for us figuring out the camera settings. Oh, and thanks to an extremely generous friend, we now have photoshop, and have been having a ton of fun with that. (I am actually thinking about creating a second blogger site dedicated to photos, just so that family and friends who dont want to see 500 pictures of cows dont have to.)

Until next time, here are some random photos from the last couple of weeks:

"I hear what you're saying Uncle Ryan, I'm just not sure I agree."

Ryan, I know its called a "fainting couch," but I'm pretty sure they'll let you just sit on it.

"So, how long until they get tired of taking pictures of us?"

Hello from the land!

Ryan, stop laughing! What's wrong with my boots?