WATER!!!

Never in my entire life have I appreciated city water as much as I do now... LOL

after the massive 1600 foot water line project we are happy to report that MIL and FIL's cabin has running water with great pressure and no leaks! WOOHOO!! A project that we originally thought would take maybe a weekend has taken nearly 17 days to complete, and each of those days have been totally physically exhausting. Josh and I feel like we've been on a chain gang with all the digging we've done on this project. I tell ya one thing, I sure can shovel a heck of alot better now than i could when i first started! LOL! Here are a few pictures from this massive project.. now here's to hoping the line never leaks! ;-)


the beginning of the project, starting at the road, from L-R my FIL Dale, my
brother in law, Todd and our Pastor, Steve.

view from the bottom of the hill.

view from the top corner of the hill.

check out the overalls and beat up truck... how 'country girl' is this? lol

Todd running the mini excavator here we are 20 feet from the cabin! :-) Almost Done!!


the 'chain gang' me, Todd and Josh




For those of you who haven't yet seen our property here is an old satellite image
with the property line in red, the water line we just dug in blue where we would eventually
like to build our home in green and my mother and father in laws cabin in yellow.

In other news, I had an external hard drive problem where tons (220GB) of data became corrupted somehow then dissapeared... (family home videos, family photos, all of my work related items etc. a real catastrophe for me!) I've spent the last few days on the phone with technical support and trying recovery software, switching cables, various other options etc.and according to my EHD manufacturer needed to purchase and additional EHD (80 bucks) and then their recovery software (130 bucks ) to recover my files. It's running now so hopefully it will work and I'll get all of that back. needless to say i was really upset about it, it feels strange having to pay so much money for data that i already owned. Especially now with the holidays right upon us and we haven't even had time to christmas shop yet. So pray for me if you think of it, I'm pretty bummed about that, so hopefully it will fixable.

Joanna is doing great, walking up steps, drinking from a cup by herself, eating with a fork and spoon (mostly with her left hand like her Grandma Madsen and uncle Jason K.) and learning soo much every day, she says the 'patty-cake' rhyme though really josh and i are probably the only ones who can make it out since we know her 'jabber' lol As far as words go she says 'Meh Meh' (for Mommy) and 'Dah Dah' (for daddy) points out her facial features and knows a few of their names (nose, mouth) and says: Apple, Banana, Go, Hi, Bye, I love you, Uh-Oh, Ok, Up,
Dog, Ball , No (thats her current fave LOL) and a handful of others, so not much on the talking department, but thats ok, I'm not in a major rush to see her grow up :-) She is really into reading, dancing, singing, coloring and studying things to figure them out. She loves little dolls and can play with them for hours. I'm really enjoying seeing traits of both Josh and I in her! :-)