Houston...We Have Walls

OK...I admit it. I have been veeeerrrrry bad about posting updates lately. Suffice it to say that life around here has been a bit busy with house, work, the littles, and life in general. So here I am with this extra hour compliments of Daylight Savings Time and I am using it to get some pics up.

Since I last wrote the workers laid the floor joists and decking for the first floor and began framing the first floor walls. The first floor walls are almost all finished. The only part left to be framed is Matt's area. If he doesn't start being nicer to me I am going to tell the framers to leave him out in the cold. :)

The Littles and Miked and I have been spending lots of fun time out on the site on the weekends. There has been some rain and therefore it's pretty muddy out there, but who doesn't like to play in mud? The Littles have been building bridges, playing super hero, setting stakes for horseshoes, climbing mountains of dirt and otherwise entertaining themselves out at the site. They end up filthy and totally happy, a great combination I think.

Miked told me today that he hopes that the second floor floor and walls will be finished by the end of the week. Fingers crossed, but the weather is looking great for working. No rain in sight for the moment.

So, without further ado, here is what has been happening over at the old homestead...

The beams are set

Floor joists are set

A look at the joists from the front of the house

Thing 1 playing in the mud

Our framers setting the deck and building some walls

This is the front door and 2 of the office windows

More framing

Looking from Matt's space towards the back door
where the ramp will be

Looking toward the front door

The window above the pile of green board
will be above the kitchen sink (it needs to
be reframed to sit up higher)

The 3 windows will be the area where we
have our dining room table

Me looking out the front door

From view of the house. Matt's space will
be the unframed area on the right side
of the picture

Miked and Thing 2 looking out an office window

Grandpa Teddy checking out the view

Thing 2 helping bring wood up to Miked

We haven't figured out a way to get Matt
much closer than this. We are working on it!

Thing 1 and Miked looking up from the basement

Peek a boo out the office windows

Thing 1 looking out the back door

Mountain climbing

King of the hill

I was going to put in some pics of Gram's house when it was being built, but they are too small to see. I will have to rescan them and then post....