Not Finished, Yet

We had workers here yesterday to start the plaster thinking we would have water in our pool yesterday afternoon. They didn't get finished, so we are still waiting. They will be back today to plaster the hot tub and acid wash everything. We should start filling up later today and hope to be swimming tomorrow!

We've had some great guys working on the pool. This is our plaster guy. I had a chance to talk with him yesterday before they left and he is a very interesting man. He has a son that graduated from Harvard and a daughter that is currently at MIT. You just never know who you will meet in life.

We may not have water in our pool, yet, but we had our first "guest" this morning.

My poor cat has been a real trooper through this whole project. He gets a very strange look on his face when workers pull up in the driveway and seems to disappear during the day. I'm not sure how he's going to react when the pool has water in it.


Hopefully, I'll be posting pictures of the kids playing in the pool tomorrow or Monday!

Almost Done

Our pool project is amost done. We had workers here today putting the pea gravel in for the decking and the plaster guy will be here tomorrow to clean the pool out. They will start plastering Friday morning. We should be swimming sometime this weekend. We've had a great time and we are really looking forward to finally being in our new pool!

We're Getting Closer

We're getting closer to the end of our pool project. The tile is up and the rock work is almost finished. They should finish up with the flagstone around the spa today. The electrician was here yesterday. The deck will probably be started today. We may even be swimming by next weekend!!!! Trevor and Morgan are pretty excited.

Kennedy Ranch Trip

Kevin, Trevor, Mike and Nic took off for Kennedy Ranch Friday morning. They took some great pictures while they were there.

Trevor and Nic got to scope things out from the front of the hunting truck!

I see trophy bucks in our future!

We Have Gunite

Pool construction is moving right along - we have gunite and plumbing. We had tile/rock guys here Friday and they should be back tomorrow. The electrician will be here Tuesday.

We wanted to make sure it was deep enough for Trevor to dive!

I don't think Morgan will have any problems.

We are hoping to be swimming by Labor Day!

Trevor's Glasses

When I took Trevor to the doctor for his physical a few weeks ago, he had some trouble with the eye test. The nurse suggested I take him to an eye doctor to have his eyes checked. He had his appointment last week and yes, he needed glasses. We went to Eyemasters today while Morgan was at Vacation Bible School to pick out some frames. I think he looks really good in his new glasses AND, he's admitted that he can see better!

Morgan did great on her eye test, but she wants to wear glasses because they had some really cool frames at Eyemasters!

Construction Has Started!

Pool construction started around 6:45 a.m. Friday morning. We were so excited to see the guys and their tractor get started. Things went really well until mid morning!

How do you make it rain? Sign a pool contract! The rain started and we had about 3 feet of water in our pool. Good news?! It holds water.

So, out came the pumps. Kevin and Trevor helped them get all of the water out and they worked until around 7:30 p.m. Friday night. They did a great job!

We got another early start Saturday morning. We had workers at our house at 6:00 a.m. ready to start putting the rebar in.

They finished up around 11:00 a.m. The plumbing should get started today and they are hoping to gunite tomorrow. It should look like a pool by tomorrow afternoon!