a house for Christmas

Here are a few recent snapshots of the progression of la maison.

And the back yard here, including the cement patio.
Hmmm...what could one possibly do with these exciting little structural things?
I know! Make a kitchen!

Nothing like carpet to make you feel like you're in a house instead of a wood-planked shell.

And coming soon... STUCCO!

the naked hand

is not the same these days. Ok, so it's only been 2 days, but that's enough.

The story is: one of the tiny accent diamonds disappeared from my band the other day. See that distinct little un-tanned ring around my finger? That means that my engagement/wedding ring is far away right now. Far, far away. In Provo, not on my finger. *sniffle*

The good part is that when it comes back in another 4-5 days, the little diamond will be replaced, the other diamonds tightened, it will be re-sized slightly smaller, and I think it will also be re-plated or whatever you call it. Basically, it will be better than new.

If only I didn't keep panicking every time I realize it's not there.

don't get bored of it yet...

The house is still flying up!

Everything is looking more and more... housey. More... put together... with the dry-wall in the living/family room. Love the vaulted ceilings.
Love our U-turn stairs.

One of the highlights: gas fireplace. Definitely looking forward to that this winter. That and the garage. No scraping frost off the windows for me!

These pictures are actually as of last week, but this weekend was crazy, so... yeah. Will give you the latest updates soon. (I will have pictures soon of interior paint, cabinets, and exterior...)

being a little paranoid?

Personally, I'd call it: smart. All it takes is hearing of 1 or 2 people in my department at work that have been officially diagnosed w/ H1N1 and... DONE. Gloves are going on. End of story.

I am NOT getting sick. I want to hold my nephew after he gets blessed on Sunday! Doy.

In this town of Halloween...

Check out my mom's super cute Halloween town!! This set-up rocks! You can turn it ON, too. Oh yeah, it comes ON. The houses make shrieking, haunting noises... the windows light up like there's candles inside... magical, I tell you.

And I still haven't gotten the Nightmare Before Christmas theme song out of my head:

This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Pumpkins scream in the dead of night...

From left to right: Hippie Honey, Shipwreck Sally, and Pocapoochey. (Came up with those names all by myself, too!) Yarrr!

The Huz and myself. I was in my costume all day at work, too; did I mention? And heck no, didn't get sick of the 'stume.

I could be deluderizing myself or something, but... tell me the black hair doesn't work it. I mean, honestly. The sass factor went up like 10 full notches. If only it wasn't so itchy...The Halloween Bash night with the fam was a total hit. I'd like to take a little bit of credit for proposing the idea. Thank you. Super-thrilled to see all my peeps in costume, too.

The men-folk:The sistas:

And then of course, those of us whose trick-or-treating days are still ahead:

Snow White didn't last quite a lot longer than it took to take this picture... She must have thought the Charlie Chaplin nose was a bit more comfortable.
Here is me being scary lady who forces her neice to sit on her lap for a picture. *Sigh.* Actually, I think once the initial shock was over the neices handled my black-bedeckedness really well. Just the photo-shooting part was a little, well... yeah. Happy I got a pic.

Fav nephew. For real.

And what would a Halloween party without stabbing, sawing, guts, gore, and messiness? No kidding - not a party at all, right?

Clint carved the wicked Darth Maul and I did, well... let's call him Mummy Face.

Trick-or-Cheering

Halloween night I actually celebrated with the Utah Football team. Admittedly not my first choice, but since I have no excuse to go trick-or-treating, well then... what better way to bask in the Halloween-ness by going to a stadium filled to the brim with screeching, freaky fans decked out in black? I was even allowed to wear heavy black make-up again. Who's complaining?
Hate to say it, babe, but seriously... you kinda look like you're yawning.

Fun to have a pretty much uncontested victory over the Wyoming hobos.

And quite undeniably another brilliant Halloween weekend. 2 nights in a row of partying and dress-up. Next year's All Hallow's Eve Festivities: Mine & Clint's place. Will be an extravaganza, people. Can't wait.