The weather has kept our activities at a pretty low level these days. It's been raining a ton but thankfully today we were able to get outside a bit so Heidi, Elise, and I headed down to Hayden Lake and fed the ducks. Can't wait for summer!!

House Progress

It looks like we are finally going to be submitting for our building permits with Kootenai County tomorrow. I spoke with our Engineer today at Lake City Engineering and he had just completed the site disturbance package which is required to be submitted for properties situated on steep slopes such as ours. The purpose of the package is to plan for drainage and erosion controls during construction and requires engineering. It seems like it's taken some time to finally get to this point and we are hopefull for a quick turnaround at the county. Once permits are issued, we'll get scheduling figured out for breaking ground. If all goes well, we are looking at the middle of April to get things going. That's the latest and greatest.

Bathtime Fun

Hayden and Logan spent the evening with us tonight and we had lots of fun watching movies, eating go-gurts, and having bath time. Here's a great shot of the kids in the bath having a good time.

Rocky Ford Creek

Rocky Ford Creek was another great trip this year. It has been about a 5 year annual trip with usually more drinking than fishing but a great way to break the winter ice and get the rods moving for the spring. We caught a few fish. These rainbows are tough. Chris had the right bug. It's some white contraption that he came up with that the trout just suck up off the bottom. Anyway, the picture here exemplifies about how serious we are about the fishing. I love this trip.

Goofy Girl

Elise was dressing up in Mom's stuff last night. She's pretty funny in Mom's hat!

Congratulations Heidi!

Wonderwoman has struck again! Heidi had her business review yesterday with her manager and recieved an unexpected pay raise and promotion to Executive Representative! Way to go!

Headed to Rocky Ford

Next weekend a bunch of us are headed to Rocky Ford Creek in central Washington. Joe put up a site with a bunch of links and good info for the trip. Check it out.

http://www.joecode.com/outside/147/rocky-ford-creek-and-ponds

The site contains info on the creek, accomodations, flies, directions, etc. We have been going here every spring for about the last 5 years and have had a great time every year.