Catching Up

A lot has been going on the last couple of weeks worthy of posting here. First off, Elise had her 2nd birthday which happened to be the same day as Mother's Day. We had a nice b-day party at Maw and Holmes' house.














Heidi and I went to San Diego courtesy of Merck for all of Heidi's hard work this last year. It was first class. Loads of good food, sailing, massages, and of course wine as you can see. We were able to meet up with Todd, Jeannie, and Rose for dinner at Peohe's one night. Dinner was yummy. We stayed at the historic Hotel Del Coronado.

Lastly, we ran into a little bit of a snag on the house project. It had to do with some driveway design issues but we have worked to resolve that over the last two weeks. So, we should (cross your fingers) be back on track by the end of this week. Hopefully my next post will be a picture of that track hoe digging out our driveway. Keep checking back.

Finally!!!!!!!!!!

Permits!!!

Kootenai County has finally graced us with their permission to begin building our home. As you might imagine, Heidi, Elise, and I are quite excited about getting things going. It has been a long and arduous process up to this point dealing with engineers, architects, the builder, and Kootenai County. It will be nice to be able to see physical progress on the site. Keep checking back in. We'll be knee deep in this thing before to long.

English Point Hike

Elise and I went for a hike this morning out at English Point. It has been rainy here so it was nice to get outside. I got a good shot of Elise checking out a centipede that we found on the trail. Brewster and Wyatt had fun chasing deer.

Easter at the Schumacher's

We spent Easter Sunday over at Russ and Penny's this year. Amy, Blaise, Chase, and Grace were up to Fernan visiting from San Francisco. All the cousins had a ton of fun hanging out with each other. Shown here is Elise and her new Easter dress, the kids digging for worms in Grandman and Grandpa's yard, dinner at the kid's table, and the aftermath of the afternoon in the driveway. Happy Easter!!

Waiting for permits

Here's a few pics of the engineering plan for the driveway up to the house if you can make it out. We have submitted all our plans to the county and have been waiting for about a week now. They are still about a week and a half out so we will continue to wait patiently.

April Snowman

I thought it was supposed to be Spring already.