A lot has happened....

It has been a busy week.  The most important and exciting thing to happen was that Ellie turned 3!

The temperatures have not been very conducive to brick laying but the brick layers have worked through the weather!  They covered the porch so that they could work "inside"!

We are very happy with the end result.  The side lights were installed as well as the temporary door.  

The North side is getting close to being completed.  Depending on the weather (we are really hoping to get the 50 degree day that is forecasted tomorrow) it should only be a couple of more days until the brick is finished.  Then the siding crew will come and finish up the exterior.

We have a back door.  Now that we have a front and back door, the house is locked up after the crew leaves each day.

Here you have the most exciting part of Emma and Ellie's week!  The Clayton Fire Department arriving at our apartment building on Sunday,

along with 3 police cars!  The apartment below us is vacant so when we found out that it was flooding and leaking into the basement we called the EMERGENCY number listed for our building. No one answered, we left a message, no one called back.  We then called the police, who checked out the scene, called the fire department and broke in through the front window.  The girls LOVED it!!  Ellie now pretends to call the police and ask them to please help her friends out of the flood!