Construction Update

To keep folks up-to-date on the progress of our new house in Nolensville, TN, Julie has graciously asked that I post some pictures.

Here we go:

This is the house before the stone was put on
(I believe that was the previous post):

I've taken several pictures of the garage during the progression. I think it really captures what is happening at every step:

This is the view from the kitchen looking back at the dining room, followed by the living room, and you can see the stairs. We love how the stairs will be hidden as people enter the front door:

This is the view of the upstairs master suite (our master is downstairs). And everyone knows what this means ... we can have guests, and they have their own space in the house:

So, we hope you enjoy looking at these pictures with us. We're very, very excited to have everything moving towards us all being together soon. And this house will make things easier. No more house fixing for a while!

Love to all!
-- Sean

In progress......

Our new home.

A side view. We are so excited, a Brand new house in Nolensville, TN. We can't wait. It will be done in the end of August. Guess I'll have to change my blog name soon...... Maybe I'll run a contest. What do you guys think?
We are going to be a half a mile from a brand new school. Fiona is very excited. They offer music, PE, and art as separate classes and school doesn't start till 8:30 instead of 7:50. The school days are about 45 minutes longer also. The school has big playground, but just down from the school is Nolensville Park which has a very nice playground and ball fields.(This made Sean very happy)

It has been a little crazy this last month, going house hunting in Tennessee, my mom's knee surgery and our annual Sisters quilt trip. More on these later this week, as I'm still traveling and thanks to Sean I have a internet connection. We are sad, though that Sean is leaving this morning. We can't wait to be together as family, soon.

Fishing in the Ocean

My happy girls.  They are so happy to be going out in the ocean with Grandpa Jim.  We fished off of Cape Arago.  We could see the light house and the park from the distance.

Fiona taking the hook out of the fish

Grandpa Jim helping Aida reel in her fish.

Aida's first time in the Ocean was this last Wednesday. She has been in the boat for a ride jetty and on the lake with Grandpa, but never fishing, therefore a very big deal.( Fishing is favorite pastime for my dad)  The rule is you have to be five- Well, she is not quite five(in 4 months)  but the weather was nice and ocean was pretty flat  and Grandpa is big softie when it comes to fishing! It a big deal for my girls to go out with Grandpa Jim in his boat.  Aida did Awesome! She caught 4 fish and was having a great time.  Fiona loved it also. She had been getting pretty upset with Grandpa for not taking her on Monday and Tuesday.  She caught two fish and let one loose, so it could grow more.  Fiona is getting so independent, she was letting her own line down and reeling it in on her own and taking the hook off the fish(see picture).  I'm so lucky the girls don't get Sea Sick.  

Fiona swimming across the deep end

Fiona is my Superstar.  We did a few private swim lessons for the girls this week after their swim session ended last week. She is taking to swimming so well.  She is doing Butterfly and breast stroke and diving off the side of the pool, also.  She loves to swim.    

Swimming.....

Aida on her back. The girls are taking swim lessons. They finish up the session today.

Fiona jumping off the board. She is doing so well. She is swimming in the deep end by herself. She is great backstroker and is doing really good learning her rhythmic breathing with her freestyle.

We went to the beach last Friday after swimming. I've never noticed this growing on Sunset beach before. I thought it was pretty.

Josie, Fiona, and Aida playing in the Sand. Josie is taking lessons at the same time as the girls. Josie's mom Shelley graduated with my sister Jennifer and I graduated with Shelley's sister Bobbie. Josie was spending two weeks at her Grandma's taking lessons. They've become fast friends.

My grandmie came to visit us last week for a few days. She is 82 this year. I think she is going to outlive us all! We had nice talk. She has had Whooping cough, mumps, measles,chicken pox, and rubella or maybe it was rhematic fever.(I'm going to have her clarify for me) Anyway, it made me glad for the advances in modern medicine. She can remember being on her porch at about five coughing her guts out with whooping cough. She said it was awful. I guess the doctor told her parents that she needed to move to a warmer climate. They moved to San Bernaridino from Willow Springs(outside of Alturus) and they rented chicken farm and her father worked at the feed shop. She would go visit her Aunt Sadie in San Diego and visit the zoo. Aunt Sadie was her grandmother's twin on her dad's side. I think I need to record her next time, because I want my girls to hear about her life and I want to make sure I get it right. Her mother was a dressmaker, she did all the fancy beading that people wore in the twenties. My Grandmother has her wedding dress that she made, I've seen it. I think she must have designed herself, and she was very petite, only 4'11.

Josie and Fiona

Champoeg-Family reunion

cabin we stayed in overnight

Emily, Tyler, Erin, Fiona and Aida
We went to Champoeg to meet Uncle Rod and Aunt Sandy's daughter Teri and family for the first time in addition we got to see Sean's family. It was great. The girls were excited to see family and meet some new cousins. I only have pics of some of the younger kids, because all the older ones went into Mike and Geri's to spent the night we were in town. (These are my some totally of our pictures) We also got to see Aunt Pat and Uncle Mike which was a great surprise. They came down from California to see Teri and her family. Aunt Pat used to babysit Teri and hadn't seen her in 26 years.

Tyler and Fiona- playing video game. Fiona really liked the game.

Uncle Rod and Aida. I love this picture. Aida really loves her uncle Rod.

Summer Fun and trip to the valley

We were in the Cemetery in Ashland where I have relatives buried. It is an older Cemetery that has beautiful old oak trees. Fiona and my mom in search....

My Great Grandparents. William and Myrtle Bryan. (My great great grandparents on my mom's mom's side) He was quite the wheeler and dealer from what my mom tells me. He traded a brand new home on the Los Angeles River for home and land in Ashland. Needless to say the home in Ashland was awful! But he put his family to work(brothers, cousins) on the land growing wheat and they didn't have to go to War.(first world war) He had promised his mother that he would take care of his brother on her death bed. He had way of making jobs and putting the family to work. They had construction business in LA and a chicken farm. He also was a engineer for the railrode in Ashland and did that for many years.

Aida at Lithis Park. This picture is so sweet.

Aida, she has such a fun personality. She is firecracker!

Lithia park in wading area. It was very cold! My parents and grandparents used to bring me to Lithia park as a little girl. We spent a lot of hot summers here. My mom lived behind the park as Until she was six and they moved into Medford. She showed us the house that she lived in that her grandfather built for her parents and where her grandparents lived with their homes. It was neat to see. I wish I'd taken some pictures......

Play structure at the park, it is made of rope and steel supports.

Aida is my adventurer. No fear.....

Inspirational flower picture.

Grandmie, Julie, Fiona and Aida. 3 generations of women in the Moyer family.

Grandma Judy, Aida and Fiona. This picnic spot at Lithia Park is one that every generation since my grandma Chastain has been coming too. There used to be small zoo with deer, I can remember as a little girl, but they've done away with it.


Duck pond that has probably been in the park since the beginning.

Female wood duck that Aida was chasing, had to put an end to that!





Long day, Gotta love those faces!

The Famous mulberry tree. My mother has a picture of her mother(Ethel Chastain) sitting under this tree in about the early 1900's during a fourth July celebration. I guess she ruined her white pary dress by sitting in the berries. Needless to say the tree is much bigger.

Camping overnight at the Valley of the Rogue. Fiona had great time collecting twigs and such for the fire.


Aida is asleep under the blankets in the tent. The tent wasn't big enough, so Grandma Judy and mom had to sleep outside under the stars! It got a little cold.

If your not familar with Lithia park is right near the Famous Shakespere festival in Ashland Oregon. We also visited Southern Oregon State College, as my mom had to meet with a state pers representive to go over her retirement papers. That's right my mom is retiring. She taught eighteen years at North Bend Junior High. She also found out on that day or later that week(I can't remember exactly), that she and fellow teachers got picked to present at the National teachers Science convention in November. They submitted a project that they do with the middle school kids that incorporates Science and English that studies and the Geology and the Oregon trail. Way to go Mom! We also got to meet one of her Master's adviser Prf. Stuart. He is studying a bird call at the moment(Can't remember what kind...) Anyway, he let the girls listen to his recordings. Ryan my brother in law would have thought it was great. He likes birding and is science teather, also.