Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

New International Version (NIV)

Friday, October 4, 2013

The Great Tooth Night

A while ago I posted on FB that 3 kids lost 4 teeth in one night and asked you to guess who :) 

Here are the results. 
R lost her bottom right tooth, her second tooth ever!


J lost his first molar and his 11th total! 


And E lost TWO teeth!! Her 7th and 8th!! 


L wants everyone to know that he doesn't even have a loose tooth at the moment and J3 would really like to have a loose tooth.. but doesn't :) 

So that is the line up!!

So S you were the closest!! Great guess!! 

Brown Coat!!

Well he's finished. Papa finished the last of the stucco we wanted to get done this year yesterday. 
Officially the inside was done Friday the 27th! Yesterday, the 28th, he did the front wall on the outside. It will see the most weather and so it was important to get done as well. 

I have to say he did a fantastic job.

 The scratch coat we all worked on. Anyone and all hands were helpful.. We got it done in less than 9 days. 

The brown coat Papa pretty much did alone. I helped the equivalent of maybe 1 day.  
It was hard work. The brown coat goes on in two layers and its best if you do the second one right after the first. The second coat has to be as smooth as possible and than you wait a couple of hours and smooth it out again. Some of these wall were gone over 5 times. That's a TON OF WORK. 

Actually it is roughly 17000lbs. 

9 days 1st coat
13 days second coat

7000 lbs sand
3500 lbs lime
+3 year old mix=
12000 lbs +
5000 lbs water=
17000 lbs  in 22 working days



Part of the long side wall. That's the pantry window. Looks great hey? 



The front kitchen window from the outside! That wall to the left will be redone when the middle wall goes in. 


The outside with a filler coat. Papa has decided to try and finish the brown coat on the outside as he has all the materials, the weather is still nice enough, and to put the skirting up we need to take down the platforms he made for scaffolding. 


This will be in the inside hallway walls. The holes are for the doors into the hallway.


The Master Bedroom :) big enough for a baby area as we are not having a nursery. The color difference you see is just wet vs dry. It cures grayish white. 


The front kitchen wall. My sink will be under that window!! 


The view from the yard.