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    I started this blog in 2003. It was to be all about our experience in house building. It's been an amazing journey. Sometimes I look around and I can't believe we acutally built this house and when I say we I mean we. Myself, my husband, his cousin Russ, our Dads and assorted friends and other relatives. We did hire a contractor to pour our foundation and we had a horrible experience with some drywallers but otherwise it was all us. We have been in the house now for one year. There are still a lot of details to finish up. I have some guilt about not posting house projects since I am a member of a house blog ring but there is a lot of valuable information on house building here so while my posts are more about living in our dream house you can still search my archives for posts on every aspect of house building. So? Are we there yet? Nearly. We still need doors and trim inside.......some flooring and tiling needs to be done so stay tuned-we'll get there.

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    Sunday the 12th was David's birthday and he asked for a deck building birthday party. We had lots of friends show up and got a lot done.

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December 29, 2007

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Our Christmas tree turned out just beautiful.

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I didn't have enough ornaments for this huge tree so I made some by printing out some birds on card stock and covering them with clear contact paper to make them a little stiffer and they turned out great.

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I put up our usual tree and polar bears too.

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Amber We had a great Christmas.  My folks were here (of course) and Dave's Dad came by on Christmas morning. We had a few friends stop by too.

The dogs got several presents too.  It's so much fun to watch them open presents.  They just love it.

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They got plenty of squeaky toys to last them all year.

While we missed being with all the family in California and New Mexico it was nice to be home too.  We had lots of lovely dinners and parties with family and friends that are here.

I find it hard to believe that it is going to be 2008!  It seems like just yesterday that we were worried about what was going to happen to our computers in 2000!

This is the year to really get some stuff done on the house.  A fence, some trim, a master bath.........These are things that top my list but there is really no shortage of stuff to do around here.

I am having serious blogging guilt and I think I am just going to have to give up being part of the house webring. I really love being part of that community and I will miss it but they really want me to do the majority of my posts about the house (and I understand this) and over the last three years that was fine because we were doing so many projects there was no shortage of stuff to write about.  Now that we are living in the house there is so much more going on but I feel guilty about writing about non-house stuff so I end up writing nothing and I miss that too.  So, some changes need to be made in 2008.

A Very Prosperous and Happy New Year to All!!

 

 

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

It sounds like your Christmas was wonderful! I get such a chuckle about your weenies loving the squeaky toys. Our short-haired doxie isn't the least bit interested, but the long-haired adores them and LIVES for them. She even seems to "know" when we've bought her one and she'll tear into the shopping bag when we're not looking and haul it out. Must be in the long-haired genes.

Happy New Year to all of you!

so have you decided what you're going to do about your blogger guilt? just make sure you don't start posting somewhere else without letting us know where you went!

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