Flake Fun

 It has been a while and we have been busy.  Summer temps arrived with a vengeance so we are working to stay cool.  

We are enjoying the summer reading program activities.  Most recently we spent an hour or so at the park with the Dino Crew meeting and learning about dinosaurs.

Scott had a good birthday and the kids had fun making him a little treasure hunt to help him find his presents.  

We spent a day in Mesa recently visiting Grannie Bailey and swimming at an awesome city pool.  There were several pools but the kiddie pool that we were in was 18 - 24 inches deep and had a water structure as well as 2 water slides.   The kids had a blast.  

As far as the house goes, we are making progress, slowly but surely.   We are scheduled to get our roof trusses on July 28th.  We have been working on getting the front porch area prepped and we are planning to pour the garage pad, front porch, back porch posts and fireplace this coming Friday.  Then walls will start to be built!! 

Rebar in the garage waiting to be poured.

Back filling the front porch trench. 

This is the front porch trench that needed to be filled in. 7-8 feet deep.

Front porch ready to be poured.

Setting the French drains

French drains covered and completed. 

Since we are nearing monsoon season, we purchased a 50'x70' tarp to cover the subfloor.  It took us several hours to get it placed on the house.  The next day it rained and we discovered that it did a decent job keeping the rain out but where rain did get in, it wasn't allowing the wood to dry out so we had to take it off.  Hopefully the true monsoon rains will wait until August to come!

Love you all!