Darn Memory Card

We are still waiting for the report from the engineer to find out what else will be torn down. The assumption is the chimney, stairs, dining room walls, and any areas that have suffered fire damage that have been exposed since the drywall was removed at the very least. But we all know what assuming leads to so in the mean time, we are trying not to think about it, lest we end up feeling like the girls (Alyssa and her friends) in the picture on the left :)

I, of course, took pictures of the "completed" demo and as I downloaded them from my memory card I was a little startled by what I saw. The card didn't have just the photos of my last visit home as I had anticipated, but flashed quickly through photos from events I had forgotten all about even though they really weren't that long ago. I did not expect to see a photo of Mikes family in our kitchen celebrating his mom's birthday, or shots from the snow in Big Bear - only a couple, our trip was cut short, some photos of deer in the yard at Dove Canyon, then it was Easter, Gailyn's baptism and finally the pictures I am posting here. I am left with a strange feeling in my belly. I thought "memory" referred to storage but in this case it really was a card full of memories that unfortunately I wasn't prepared for. Now the realization of how much our lives have changed in what sometimes seems like an eternity and others like a blink of an eye is beginning to set in.

This Friday we are meeting with an architect which I think will do a lot to make us feel like progress is being made. We are in a slightly self imposed holding pattern, haven't worked much on our contents list, haven't worked at all on going through the last few items in the garage, haven't done much to organize the things we have collected here. And quite honestly I'm not really motivated to start or I'd be doing those rather than writing this.

But, can't start now anyway, time to get back in the car for an afternoon of driving. Which is good in a self preservation kind of way. The pictures are posted below if you want to, have a peek.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ViewSlideshow.action?&collidparam=99233795605.955392447705.1241038679947