Happy Easter!

Karmann giving hugs to her Easter piggy from Aunt Sarah

Picking out paint colors for the exterior of the house with Mom and Grandpa at the paint store Friday

Back roof cantilever - there will be a deck off the back here.

Kris has one fascia board up on this side in this picture.

Kris is installing his "scaffolding" to give him access to the fascia and soffits. I guess this is one good reason not to have the sheathing on the east and west walls yet.

Happy Easter! Sorry its been a week (already) since I've updated the blog. Not too much happened this week on the house from a visual perspective. We are planning on the roofers to work this week and hopefully get the roof done. Kris is trying to get the fascia boards up before they come, but it is going slow, so not sure if it'll get done before. Also, we are giving our first "tour" of the house on Thursday for the Young Architect's group, so there's a lot of "cleaning up" to do.

We are in the height of the spring allergy season here in Orlando, and I have gotten a taste of what its going to be like living under two massive oak trees. Honestly, I will have a ban on opening any window, no matter how nice it is out side due to the amount of pollen that falls!! It is crazy. But, we'll get used to it. I think Kris is thankful that I made him change the roof from a flat roof to a pitch now! There's no way getting away from the pollen anywhere, so we'll be fine.

On a different note, Karmann is growing up so fast. She is the sweetest little soul! I know I've said that a lot already, but I'll keep doing it because its true! I was happy to take Good Friday off with her, since the daycare was closed. Grandpa came down to hang out with her too! We had a fun day and even took a trip to the paint store for Daddy. The photo of her playing with the paint samples cracks me up, because with her gibber-jabber, it was as if she was picking out the colors. Too cute! We also had lunch with my work friends at the new Greek restaurant just up from our condo, and she loved the falafel and gyro bread! She should, since I ate at the previous Greek restaurant on a weekly basis when I was prego with her! By the way, the fries are really good too!

Karmann's latest words are "cracker" "up" and "shoes". She also tries to repeat a rhythm or song as close to you as possible, and she's pretty good! Today we were sorting out our laundry, and I was saying "darks" and "lights" when I would pull out the clothes from the hamper, and she would repeat, "daa" and "laa" and play with the clothes. It was adorable. We also have this thing we do when we take her socks off - we pull them off, then she smells them and we say "stinky socks", well, she was grabbing Kris' really stinky socks and doing the same thing - poor little thing - this would be the only good thing about having a stuffy nose! So she played along.

We are heading to Tampa tomorrow to visit Kris' sister Keri and the family. We aren't sure if we are going to go to the beach or not - as it has been perfect beach weather these last few days!! Why not go to the beach on Easter Sunday, eh? What ever we do, I'll be sure to take pictures.

Also, we would like to congratulate Kris' brother Brian on the birth of his baby girl! Abigale "Abby" Reese Stenger was born April 2nd! Welcome to the club B!! Can't wait to meet her in a few weeks!

Have a great holiday everyone!