‘Straw-babies’ (her favorite fruit second to bananas) ‘Skuu-key’ (Scuse me) ‘Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco’ (the nursery church gals taught her this on her hand. Now her thumb is forever ‘cinco’!) ‘You okay Loosey?’ (what she says to herself when she falls down) She knows her colors, how to count to 10, and her shapes. Max really only wanted to run around at age 2! It’s the girl thing. 🙂
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2 weeks worth of work in 2 days
My dad came over on Thursday night to make sure everything was ready to go. We worked until about 10:15 pm. Then at 6:30a on Friday, Larry Brown showed up and our extreme weekend began. Larry had the right equipment, skill and experience. He flew threw our footings. Before the dig Southwest 
West 
Southeast 
The excavator 
Forming it up Greg Kidman came over and showed us how to work. 
Pop and I would still be struggling with the east side after a whole day, and we would probably have done it wrong. 
Gran and Don’s visit
Which also was in May – ah well! We’re so lucky that they bring their own bedroom with them (in their little RV). They stayed during Matt’s absence at his FL conference, which was a great big help. We had great times, including cousin Chelsea’s nursing school graduation (complete with lots of other family too), a trip to the Reagan Museum and Disneyland. 
Matt showing the house plans (his favorite thing to do) to Don, Gran, Buddy and Cena 
The lovely ladies at Chelsea’s graduation 
Grandaddy swinging Lucy around 
Amazing! Four generations of ladies 
Max and Lucy at Disneyland 
Such a highlight – Max getting to dance with the Buzz man himself 
Gran and Toby
Lucy is 2!!!
Well, she was actually 2 on May 10, but you know, life is a little nuts! (Especially right this minute with a backhoe in the yard!) We had a super party at Jan and Jeff’s – a great co-celebration with cousin Nathan (3 days Lucy’s elder). We’re enjoying our sweet girl so much – she’s an amazing smart, funny and animated gift from God. 🙂 
Toby and Lucy 
How do I get this stuff off?
2 days work for a 1 hour project
We are making ready for the external footings to be dug in a couple of weeks. One of the tasks was to remove the back porch. The porch was made of poured concrete, so we couldn’t have it in the way of the footings.
We had built a temporary set of stairs from wood so that we could still use the back door. Both my dad and I estimated that it would be a fairly simple, relatively quick task to break up the concrete and to install the temporary porch. At most, we thought, we would need to go to the rental yard and get a full sized jack hammer.
We started to work on the porch with the Makita Rotohammer, but went to the lumber yard and quickly got the Bosch Brute demo hammer. We even told the rental clerk that we would probably have it back in less than 2 hours.
Our timeline was way off. We eventually got the cement porch out and the wood porch in, but it was much bigger than a 1 hour project.
3
hours into our 1 hour project 
The
rubble from the porch filled the entire bed of the truck 
The
temporary porch and happy smiles 