bits of sunshine

habit :: july 16

just hangin' around
while the guys work on the house
and mom paints on the garage
lovin' this barefoot life

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joining habit and this moment today

upward

 

 

I don't know when the amazement, this is really ours!, will wear off . . . I hope it never does.

all lined up, ready to be packed

We are moving into the 5th-wheel camper today! The very last box will be packed by late this morning and all our stuff will be out of the old house by the end of the day. The next time I see these trinkets, we will be living in our new home!

habit :: july 8

i can't wait till the last box is packed . . . soon we will live under these rafters, under this sky.

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If you haven't heard, habit is having a little celebration this month, and all are invited to participate.  Emily and Molly, and a huge list of guests, have been at it for eighteen months, capturing snippets of a day with an image and a few words.  I'm thrilled to see such a great project continue to grow and inspire.  And too, to be able to join in when the days are long and light filled. 

Logs :: Grey and Yellow Pine

{two of my very favorite logs}         
{east side : big dining room and triplet kitchen windows}   
{this is how it all looked at the end of last week}

three days progress in pictures

{Sunday night out at our house}

{looking in to Maddie's room}       

{looking in to the family room with Isaac's room in the back left-hand corner}

{on Monday morning :: those wood piles by the trailer are our logs!}

{square milled logs :: they were timber left standing after a forest fire in California, now they will be our home!}

{the front door}

{Tuesday afternoon :: the sky out here. I love being able to see. no one else's house outside my windows. just the sky.}

{Wednesday afternoon}

{remember that hard-working little guy?  he's still working hard}

{the house is going up :: and I am so beside myself with joy}

This week, I have been packing and packing.  Today and tomorrow will be very big packing days.  I am trying to have the house we are in now completely packed by the end of the day tomorrow - we'll see!  then we will enjoy the weekend - lots of celebrating planned!  And early next week, we will be living at our new address - if all goes as planned.  We had started thinking about moving out to our new home and living in tents (we have water and electricity now) so we could just be there and not have to run back and forth and keep up with both places.  On Saturday night, Ben and I talked it over and over and hashed out how we could make it work.  On Sunday morning, some friends at church asked us how things were going and when we planned to be out at our new house.  We told them about our camping idea and that we really just want to be out there, we want to be home.  They left.  Then they came back. And said, "We have a fifth wheel camper in storage.  Would you want to use that for the next two months?"  Would we want to use it???  Oh. yes.  With tears in my eyes, yes.  We will be able to be out at our home.  And we won't have to sleep on the ground for six weeks.  So, off to pack. 

Have a lovely day, my friends!

garage and basement, beginnings

{garage floor}

{hard-workin' guy}

{the basement - footings are ready for walls}

{instruction time :: this is how we'll put the walls together} 

{here's that hard-workin' guy again}

{just like big legos - the ICF forms for the basement walls}

{when I wasn't taking pictures, I was down there working, too}

{the pumper truck - filling the walls with concrete}

 

{filling the walls}

{gettin' 'er done and ready for a floor}

 

{the basement floor (there's in-floor heat under there)}

{the garage roof is getting finished, too, thanks, of course, to that hard-workin' little guy}

oh so grateful

"For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever!"        Romans 11:36

I just feel like this is all a gift.  It is from Him.  A gift that we need to be wise stewards of.  A gift to be shared.  A gift to be used as I love my family, love our friends; a place to bring God glory in all that I do.

Only be careful so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live.  Teach them to your children and to their children after them.   Dueteronoy 4:9

 

There are so many things to be thankful for in how this project came to be and how it is working out.  I am keeping a list in my journal and will share thankful bits with some of my updates.  For today, I'm sharing some of the things I've been reading that just make my heart well up with gratefulness.  As Carmen commented the other day, God is SO good.

 

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.  Psalm 16:6

 

Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in Heaven above and on Earth below.  There is no other.  Keep His decrees and commands, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.  Dueteronomy 4:39-40

this is where . . .

the magic is happening!

right up on that hillside 
this will be our side yard 
our house will be facing us, nestled into that hillside 
right up here (the red flag marks a corner of the garage)

we have about 5 acres . . . and behind the trees in the last picture is another hill, and down the hill is a river!  i will share lots of pictures of the land and of the project as we go along! 

dreams coming true

planning
trips to the bank
writing up estimates
drawing
looking
walking about the property
phone calls
notes jotted and notes typed
emails
ideas
major sale-ing and thrifting (on a large scale - for our home!)
looking for ways to create beauty with minimal spending
just feeling a deep sense of gratitude that this is going to happen!