The windows are going in

It's really neat to see the house starting to become enclosed. It really makes you feel like you're inside when you go in now.

Camping Out

The kids decided they were going to sleep in the house one night. they swore they didn't need an adult and they packed everything themselves. Here they are all ready to go.

Putting up the tent.

Home sweet home for the night.  No air mattresses either!

And what would camping out be without some smores and a campfire!

Of course I did get a phone call at 10:00 because Jillian was scared.  So...I slept in the tent too after a nice long "Aunt/Niece" chat with Jessie.  Let me say, the sounds around the woods and pond and awesome!


Here is the morning after.  LOL

The windows are HERE!

Leaving our Mark

I have always loved to see kids hand prints left in the side of a special place.  Building my new home is the most special place to me right now and I wanted to save a piece of my children within it's walls.  I decided to place their hand prints and names in the cement of our front porch.

Now this doesn't sound like a complicated project.  Pour concrete...place hands...write names.  Well let me just say that this project didn't happen as easily as I had expected.  Steve talked to the concrete guys the night before and he must have told them that it would probably be ready between 9 and 10 AM.  Well I don't think he ever mentioned this to me (although he thinks he did).  So at 9:10 I get a call from Steve asking if we had done it yet or not.  At this point we are still at home in our PJ's and I was feeding Carlie breakfast.  Sooo I throw clothes on the girls (except Carlie, I just took her in her PJ's figuring I'd be coming home immediately following), rush to the house, and ask the Amish guy if he is ready.  He says, in his slow quiet Amish voice, "Well it's still pretty wet.  It'll be a little yet."  Ok not a problem, so I take the girls over to the yard and let them play with the bikes for a little.  To make a long story short, two and a half hours and a bunch of grumpy girls later we finally got to leave their adorable little marks in our family home.

Inside

Just as the outside is coming along, so is the inside.  Here is a look from my dining room into the living room.  I Can't Wait to sit in this living room!

 Here is the look from the entry way.  That is the fireplace right in the middle.

And to top it all off!

So in technical terms (which I don't fully understand) this house has a 10/12 pitch with 14 valleys. These were my husbands words to the guy at the one building place the other day. I realized that these words must carry some weight because when he said them the guys mouth about dropped to the floor and he repeated "14 Valleys!" Apparenly that takes a lot of extra work hence the reason for the delay in getting any pictures up. I was waiting for the roof to actually be on.

Here's the delivery...

The starter truss.

The boom on this truck could reach forever and the guy driving knew this arm and joystick as an extension of his own arm.  He could place those things within inches of where they needed to be!

Creating the dormers.

Starting to sheet all the trusses.  This really made it look like a house to me once they got all the sheeting on!

My work crew.  Why is it that there are always butt shots!

Can you see it now?

Creating the overhangs.  Steve and I both hate it when a roof ends right at the wall.  So we made it that we have big overhands.  I almost think they are 18".

Maybe I can put a clear ceiling in?The view would would be nice.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm?  See the smoke?

Cracking some sort of joke I'm sure.  Probably about the smoke coming out of Steve's brain!

Yes even I help sometimes.  Here I am trying NOT to run the platform into the house.  Again. (oops)

All dried in with paper.  Now it must be break time.

Can I just say that this machine has been a GOD SEND!  Thanks Billy we owe you for this one!

Framing up the beginnings of the front porch roof.  Now once the logs go in the front dimensions will finally bring the whole house into perspective.

And the finished product. Ok minus the shingles and the front entry way. Still to come...

 

We were Beaming!

Here are the support beams to hold the roof and fireplace in line.