Finn remains a happy go lucky boy these days, even with the house all torn up and most things out of place. Above he is grabbing the airplane pull chain on his ceiling fan – it’s a father-son tradition that they do together every day. These pictures were taken on Father’s Day, it was one of the few times this week I took any photos other than the progress of the construction. 

We had a yummy brunch after church out on the patio at Matt the Miller. We had the best seat in the house and all without a reservation 🙂 Sunday evening Kevin, Jim, Finn, and I headed to the Columbus Clippers baseball game. It was a beautiful night – the place was packed!  Debbie took Finn and Sammy to a concert at the local amphitheater in Powell this week. The boys loved the music and danced throughout the concert! They even stopped at Jeni’s Ice Cream for a sweet treat afterward! Debbie has been a real trooper through this destruction and remodeling process. It certainly isn’t easy to be here with two very mobile boys when the place is a destruction zone! So they have enjoyed having picnic lunches at the park and visits to the zoo and pet store too.  I’m not sure this is really considered a milestone, but Finn did have his first taste of peanut butter this week, in the form of a frozen Reese cup (Kevin’s favorite treat!). I was keeping Finn occupied in our room one evening and had a hankering for a snack, so I asked Kevin if he would bring up a frozen Reese Cup. As soon as Finn saw the package he said “mo mo”, which is funny considering he hadn’t had any yet! We decided to let him try it and he liked it, and even better that he didn’t seem to have any reaction to the peanut butter. It was actually a good thing that it was frozen as it made it easier for him to take a bite off and it didn’t melt in his hand as quickly! In other fun Amy, Andy, and the kids came over on Saturday to check out our kitchen progress. We all headed to City BBQ for dinner and then to Graeter’s for ice cream afterward. Here are the cousins enjoying their treats.  The kitchen project continues and things are moving along nicely. This week Brett came up and helped install the drywall ceiling in the kitchen along with Kevin and Nik. They worked very late into the night, close to 2 am, to get it wrapped up. It looks really, really nice. The tile floor on the other hand is quite an undertaking to tear up. It seems the people who installed this original tile floor used Liquid Nail to secure the underlayment to the plywood sub floor. It is NOT an easy thing to get off. It is a tedious and time consuming project for the guys who are removing it. Kevin and his Dad set up our “temporary” kitchen, which includes the countertop with the sink and dishwasher that are fully plumbed and functional. We even have a working disposal and extra electrical outlet. Woohoo! And the range is functional also, though I’m not sure it will be getting much use. Sad, but true, we are regular carry-out folks these days. I think we are all tiring of the local options for food (at least I can say that I am!) Our kitchen-ware has been moved to the office (aka the catch all for everything these days). We’ve set up a temporary microwave and have the essential dishware , silverware drawer, and Finn’s dry racks in there.  In other news, I was fortunate to have my own private office created as a part of the office remodeling at Millcreek earlier this spring. My office is the former “server closet” that housed office supplies and the server and electronic equipment. The room was enlarged a bit and I got new office furniture and carpet.  And this week, I got a window! I now get a taste of the outdoors.  It is so nice to have natural light again! The project isn’t totally finished, but we are getting there.  Once the sanding and painting is complete I hope to do some decorating or at least hang some pictures on the wall!