A Little Here & A Little There

There's been a little bit of work done here and there over the past week, we've had a decent amount of rainy days and Nathan and the crew have spent time on another site as well, so when it was possible Nate was out at the property doing what could be done.  Thursday night Nate was working on backfilling around the house and the kids and I came up with dinner.  It was so fun, we sat on the floor in our dining room and had dinner together!  And all our main floor walls are up so Zeke and Kenzie ran all around as we pointed out what each room was going to be, Zeke sure caught on to that fast and was really excited about it.  As of now the main floor is fully sheeted and the drain tile is laid and covered with pea gravel and we began to backfill with clay. 

Update on AMOS

We also want to share a PRAISE REPORT!  We received a text from Misty and Sean about Amos on this past Tuesday, that Amos was off the respirator and they were finally able to hold and feed him.  He is doing great and working on feeding well, in hopes that he will be able to go home soon!!  We praise the Lord!! 

 ^ front of the house sheeted ^

^ sheeting around the house without it being backfilled makes it a little harder ^

^ dining room on the left, mud/laundry room walls ^

^ Kitchen ^

^ what it will look like looking out our windows now that it's sheeted ^

^ living room and hallway on the right ^

^ pea gravel over the drain tile, ready to be backfilled with clay ^

^ sun setting in the west while... ^

^ the moon rose in the east ^

^ Zeke ^

^ cute hair, bumped it up like mommy's ^

^ Kenzie ^

Main Floor Walls!!

The crew was able to spend the second part of the week at our property this week and it's been really exciting to watch our house come together!  I'm now able to walk around our main floor and look out where my windows will be and know where each room will be.  This part sure goes up fast and makes a big difference.  Here's some pictures of the change just from Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (today).

  ^ garage foundation walls were put up ^

^ our foyer ^

 ^ building the stairs ^

^ garage being sheeted ^

^ Wednesday evening Terry and his son Dwight came and helped Nathan backfill over the water line and they tried to finish sheeting the garage foundation walls but they ran out of nails ^

^ late in the evening the Paulson's and the rest of the Morrow's came to check out the progress and have fun with friends ^

^ making cleaning up the job site a fun game for the younger one's!! ^

^ sitting down on the job site guys?!  haha!  just kidding! ^

^ the house at sunset ^

^ first wall up on Thursday: door into the mud/laundry room from the garage ^

^ finished stairs ^

^ driving up the hill to our house, view of the house & walls going up ^

^ turn off to our cul-de-sac: our neighbor's house on the left, ours on the right ^

^ at the end of the cul-de-sac (neighbor's house on the left, ours on the right) ^

^ walls going up!! ^

^ slider on the left, sunroom windows on the right ^

^ view from the slider ^

^ living room window!  SO beautiful and BIG! ^

^ door into the mud/laundry room and probably part of the kitchen on the right side ^

^ Zeke and Kenzie standing in front of their bedroom window ^

^ insulating the garage foundation walls ^

^ the CREW: Aaron, Nate, Ian, Billy & Travis ^

^ Zeke checking up on their work, making sure things are level ^

^ helping clean up, she's one strong little lady ;) ^

^ what it looked like at the end of Thursday ^

^ Zeke got his own toolbelt from the Morrow's, he was SO excited to have a tool belt just like Daddy and he was ready to get to work on our house! ^

^ his own tape measure and pencil ^

^ he went right to work ^

^ Friday mid morning ^

^ dining room widow on the left, mud/laundry room on the right ^

^ master room, big window on the left, two small on each side of the bed ^

^ getting more walls put up, front bedroom exterior wall ^

^ master closet exterior wall being put up ^

^ all the exterior walls are up!! ^

^ front entry ^

^ left: front door, middle: dining room, right: mud/laundry ^

^ I was surprised when I walked in the house to find interior walls already up!  first room you can see is the living room, then the kids room, then the master room in the far back. ^

^ master room with the correct size side window openings ^

^ master bathroom & closet in the back.  the two windows will be above the tub ^

^ front bedroom ^

^ our house up on the hill!  wow! ^