House Update

Take a look at that beautiful driveway!
The brick looks finished from the front now! We are still working on the back, though - a few more weeks.

Shane and his dad whipped out the two sides of the house in just a few days! It was the best progress yet!

They are doing an awesome job!

Moving on to the inside...time to put up finish wood.

I love the big headers over the door, very classy.

These boards will go up after the hard wood and tile are done. We are now moving on to paint.

We decided to do a glaze over the trim and doors. It took an extra week of work, but I think it looks awesome!

We had to paint on the glaze, it's like a really thick stain, then wipe it off. The doors were the most painful and slow.

Luckily we had lots of help to speed it up, or it would have taken forever!

We are all done painting now. The walls blend really well with the trim. I'm really happy with how the colors are coming together. It's a good thing too, because we realized that painting is a lot of work! Shane is not about to dive into that one again any time soon.

Here is the master bath and closet. We got the green coat down on the floors for tile now so that's the next big project.

Harley and Noah's bathroom. Notice how cool the trim around the door is with that glaze in the crevices. So cool!

Kevin made our mantle for the fireplace. He did an amazing job!

Shane and Jeff got the fireplace all framed in today and we picked out our rock, things are moving along pretty fast now!

Merry Christmas 2011

This is our handsome little man at 6 months!
Harley is helping Grandma and Grandpa put the tree up



She and Daddy got a little side-tracked, I wouldn't want to get behind the wheel with her driving though!

Harley and I made a little "gingerbread house" with graham crackers, I think she ate more than she put on the house.

The annual McFarland Christmas Party, Harley and Rylee are singing songs with the other great-grandchildren.

That's the cutest Reindeer I've ever seen!

I didn't even get a smile that big on Christmas Morning!

I thought I could get such a cute picture with the two of them on the sleigh, but as soon as I got one situated, the other one moved. This was as good as I could do.

Harley and Rylee

Christmas Eve, Daddy got a little bored, so he played with Harley and her cousins.

Lots of visiting...

Christmas Morning....here come the spoils!

A tie with Jason's face on it...priceless (Really, no one would buy this!)

It was a beautiful day, we sat outside for a while!

Merry Christmas 2011!

Happy Halloween

Harley has a new favorite holiday!
Noah's not quite sure about it.


We tried a few different costumes for Harley because we borrowed a dragon costume from my sister and when we got it out to show her she was scared of it. So we tried a monkey since Noah was so excited to be one, lol!



She thought it was pretty cool. She ran around making monkey noises all night. This picture is so funny because it looks like a monkey is really pushing Noah!

We tried "Little Miss Piggy". She thought that was silly. I think my older sister wore that one when she was 3.

But she warmed up to the dragon and I thought it was the cutest thing ever. This is her "ROAR".

Our ward had a little carnival that was fun for the kids. We were excited that Shane took a night off the house to come with us.

You might think the Young Men talked Shane into joining them in stuffing a whole donut in their mouths, but it was actually HIS idea!

Noah thought the party was really "happening." It was actually happening without him though, because he fell asleep!

My mom and I took Harley down to Gardner Village because they have all these witches set up. Harley didn't know what to think. It was really fun, there were a lot of kids dressed up in costumes too.

I had a hard time getting her to look at the camera, she wanted to turn around and look at the witches.

This one turned out so cute!

We carved pumpkins with Shambree and Rylee and Grandma.

We didn't keep Harley and Rylee's attention very long, so you'll notice that only Harley's pumpkin got carved. She was done before we got to Noah's.

Here we are on our way to the neigbors to Trick-or-Treat! It's so funny when you get down to put yourself at a child's eye level, they crouch down too.

At Grandma's house- Noah, Harley, and Rylee.

Happy Halloween!

House Update

We started on the brick the first of October. Shane had some really great ideas for the detail, but it sure is a lot of work for him and his dad. It looks awesome!
Shane sent me around looking at cool details we could do over the garage. I came up with this little design, I thought it turned out pretty good (this isn't the finished product).

Here's Shane and his dad working away...

The finished product (the garage anyway...we have a long way to go)

Meanwhile, the sheetrock is coming along on the inside. It's starting to look like a house now!

Harley stopped for a pose in her room

Here is the family room, the corner is the fireplace.