Remembering...

It's so hard to believe that it was 8 years ago today that our beautiful granddaughter, Haleigh Nicole was born in Roseville, CA. I can still remember the day that she was born! It was a wonderful, exciting day and I was so proud to be present at her birth. It's still so surreal the events that quickly followed. While it's hard to think of all the things we have missed in her life, I am still so very thankful of the brief time we did have with her.

Happy 8th Birthday, Haleigh! Grandma loves you!

Our "first" barbecue!

On Saturday, Kim, Tim and Ashleigh brought our new barbecue and microwave from Conway to Greers Ferry for us. In return, Ashleigh asked for a "juicy" steak! What better meal to have on a new barbecue? Since the house is still "in progress" I made the salad at the motorhome, baked rolls ahead of time, seasoned the steaks and packed up silverware, paper plates, napkins and drinks! My mom made twice-baked potatoes! It was a YUMMY meal! Tim and Don set up the barbecue, while Ashleigh gave "us" a tour of the house! The amazing thing...she was with us for a few days over Spring break, she remembered the names of the guys working at the house! There was no one working on the house today but during dinner, Troy and his wife, Louise stopped by. We had enough to feed them as well, but they just stopped by for a few minutes to show Louise the progress on the house.

After our early dinner, Don started up his tractor! Everyone had a turn on it, everyone except for Nana! The grass got trimmed and Ashleigh had a great time driving with everyone! It was an early day for everyone; the kids had to drive back to Cabot and Don & I needed to stop by the boat storage to unload some stuff we won't be needing for the next couple of weeks as we head west for the Baker-Vegas race.

The house is just about finished but Don and I are heading out for about three weeks. We took off today and headed to Little Rock. We are getting new topper awnings over the slide-outs. Don is also going to have them look at the dash air that we had worked on when we were in Knoxville last year. It didn't work too long...on the drive home from Knoxville it stopped working again! It looks like while Don is taking care of that...I'll be heading back to Greers Ferry to see the dentist! I chipped a tooth last night! I figured I'd better get it taken care of instead of having to find a dentist that I don't know somewhere in the middle of nowhere!

Furby had his first initiation in motorhome travel today and he did pretty well! He was in his carrier and meowed for a few minutes, but once I brought his carrier up to the front he stayed quiet the rest of the ride! It was probably a good way to get him used to motorhoming instead of having a long day for his first day of travel!

We didn't get far today, but we are headed west! It's been a long time since we've traveled and one of the first times I really didn't want to go! I'll be anxious to head back...because once we get back...we start moving in! :-)

Part One...

We are sooo close to being able to move in! :-) You can almost feel it! In fact, we've begun scheduling deliveries! :-) It's so exciting and I can't wait! Biggest problem? We are going to be gone for a couple of weeks...heading to the Baker-Vegas race! It's our 16th year as volunteers and we committed to it quite a while back! Being so close to moving in it would be easy to stay here, but like Don and I have talked about...we plan on living here for a LONG time! It's been a long journey so we should be able to make another few weeks! With the cost of diesel...it would be REALLY easy to stay here, but we won't! Move-in date? Tentatively scheduled for the week of April 28! It could be the week-end prior but things won't start being delivered until the 28th! It will be a good day to be busy - April 28th marks our granddaughter, Haleigh's 8th birthday. It just doesn't seem like it was 8 years ago that we held her in our arms!

Part Two...

Master bathroom
Front entry
Great room fireplace (not finished yet)
Master bedroom

Part Three...

Sidewalk in back
View of the back of the house
Powder room (blue tape is because there is no water/septic yet)
Front door/foyer