May 1986 - from my journal

May 1986

2 - delivered house (in parts)

2 - Amanda went to a b-day party at Chuck-E-Cheese?

3 - Started framing house

5 - roof on home

6 - interior walls done

7 - plumbing

8 - electrical

10 - put windows in

13 - eat at school with Amanda

14 - poured basement floor

15 - started shingles

17 - shingled house, stairs in, windows done, double plate the downstairs?

19 - laid coils for top floor

21 - poured top floor

21 - delivered brick

23 - Mom coming for visit

24 - start working on storage tank

28 - finished electrical

2 9 - insulation

30 - Roundup was cut (Rebena's colt) in barb wire?

31 - Sheetrocking done

31 - chimney started

May 6, 1986

The house is up.  Gary Randall and his crew finished framing it today.  It is all framed.  It looks great.  It's bigger than I thought.  Tar paper is on the roof, and Rog has got plastic on the windows.  The exterior doors are in also.  The weather is still a mess and it looks as through the basement floor will have to be put off another week.  Bret Kimbal is getting the windows tomorrow, and we will probably put them in this weekend.  It is exciting, finally getting a house.  Work has been great lately.  The kids are growing up fast.  Amanda can ride a 2-wheel bike really good now, and she can read a mile a minute.  Zachary is so cute, sometimes he can really throw a fit, but he plays good with others, and up on the hill he's great.(Zac always loved to be outside when we were working on the house.  Even though he was only 4 1/2, he would play for hours in the dirt and sagebrush.  He would NEVER complain, or moan to go home.  He would help us pick up wood scraps.  He has always been such a helper)  I am happy and looking forward to the future.

May 9, 1986

Well, the house is all plumbed and the electrical work is being done now by Lynn Mickelsen and Roger.  I need to try harder and pray with more sincerity.  God is one of the few who can help me.  Sometimes, allot lately, I've been down so much.  I wonder if it has something to do with this being May, and I should have had the baby this month.  Maybe so.  My feelings are all jumbled up inside.  I don't know how to sort them out.  

May 29, 1986

Well it's been awhile.  I have found much comfort in prayer these last 3 weeks and I am coming to know and trust and love the Lord more.  I am glad for all the blessings I have been blessed with.  I have so much to be thankful for.   I will always go on and try my best and trust in the Lord.  The house will start being bricked today.  Also, insulation has to go in because the sheetrock has to be up and finished this weekend because the tapers are coming Monday.  The electrical is also done.  Rog is working on the storage tank.