Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

From the Youngest Daughter :)

Well, here's the promised post! This was from the second night of work, I believe. As you can see, they were working on the basement. 

 It was so exciting! It was nighttime, but the floodlights made it very bright. And everywhere we looked were machines, all of them rumbling and beeping, and people wearing blue t-shirts and white hard hats.

Security was everywhere!

 Caution tape, too. :)
By the third night they were finishing the floor, putting in studs and stuff. Everything was on ground level. TWENTY FOUR HOURS later, EVERY wall was up and they were shingling the house! I kid you not. It was bananas. I heard someone say that the crew did a month of work every day in order to get it done in a week (!).
The next pictures were from the day they revealed the house! There were THOUSANDS of people. As you can see, some resorted to standing on roofs to get a good veiw. :)

 The boy in the wheelchair and blue shirt is from the family who got the house.

The director (in the straw cowboy hat) would jump up and down and wave with his assistant every time he wanted the crowd to cheer. The crowd was *ahem* VERY obliging.  Oof. Loud. :-D

 It's Ty Pennington and the family!!!!
Btw, at this point I was on my brothers back taking pictures. It was the only way to see ANYTHING! There were at least four or five solid rows of people in front of us. Before I got on his back, I couldn't even see the house because of all the people. Sheesh.

 Going in to see the house! As soon as the mother of the family (in black) walked in, she put her hands over her mouth and took a few steps back out! And then she just stood there, staring. It was so cool! :-D   

                       

See what I mean about all the people?! 

Afterwards there was so much traffic it was ridiculous. Not that I minded or anything. :) It was soooo fabulous to see the whole thing! I LOVED it. A lot. :)

Typewriter Owl

From you know who. :-/

(Sheesh. I am so ready to get me own blog. I'm the only person keeping this one alive! Grrr.)

Anywho. :)

Check out this zany owl that I made!!!

OK, not impressed yet? Scroll down. :)

 I made it using my grandma's old typewriter!!! Sweet, huh?
Unfortunately, I didn't come up with making typewriter drawings. I saw it somewhere else, and decided to make my own. :)

Pssst! Don't worry! The Extreme Makeover post IS coming. :)

Things that make me Smile

                                                             From the Youngest Daughter :)

Things that make me smile:

Getting a birthday present ... months after my birthday. :)

And having it turn out to be an adorable frog lamp! He and Yertle are hitting it off splendidly.

 Getting a new plant to add to my zany collection!

Notice how the color changes without any warning? And it's really weird because the texture changes too. The green part is like a nice thick shiny leaf, while the pinkish purple part is a bit more sparkly, silky and thin, almost like a thick tulip petal or something. Weird. I like it. :)

Finding gorgeous fall color, right in our backyard!



Psssst! There's a post coming up soon about Extreme Makeover: Home Edition!! I've got some really cool pictures from when I got to see parts of the show in person!

10/10/10

Today's date is 10/10/10.
Thought you should know.