No longer one of a kind...

In this post I documented our tree falling and clean-up effort. Two months later, we have come to a conclusion to this Dodd-family-calamity saga.

Finally.

I do miss our wood roof because it was rather unique here in Gilmer, but the new one sure looks good. This face lift has given us the 'redo bug' and I've pressure washed a good deal of the remaining cedar left on the house. We have one whole exterior wall of cedar shakes and more cedar in various places. We hope to stain this and repaint the trim for a total exterior house-lift!

They Counted Down the Days...

I guess Cate was just soooo excited to dress up as Cinderella, she could hardly contain herself. Each day she woke up and went to the calendar to commence her countdown. I hope she had as much fun as she anticipated! This was Caleb and Connor's first year to wear makeup and I thought they'd chicken out--but they handled it like proper Mummies and Vampires. We collected more candy than ever this year and I have no idea how to discreetly get rid of it short of tossing it in the trash every now and then--which will likely start today...shhhh!