Doors and Windows: On

Our house has doors and window and shingles






and the bathtubs are in




We took these pictures last sunday. Now there is more wiring and stuff. more pics next week and the interior will look way different...

Our House This Week

The First Trusses

Cody Setting trusses

All the trusses up

Interior Walls--Hallway

Interior Walls

More house pics

This Saturday we built the exterior walls with the help of Steve, Cade and Clint.
THANKS GUYS!!!

Here's what it looked like at the beginning of the day

And here's what it looked like at the end
(this pic was taken on Sunday)

The stairs have been in for a few days, but here's a picture

This is our back door

Our front door

The far window is Liam's room and the near one is Mariah's.
As we walked through Mariah said, "Daddy! you forgot the roof?"

Another view of the outside

Building skills

We are having tons of fun building. Cody has a bunch of experience and i totally dig his saw skills....nailing skills....wall building skills.
i, on the other hand, have never done anything like this and am excited to say that i can use a circular saw now...something i never ever thought of doing before. i'm not perfect, but I get better every time. And I used the nail gun today...still suck at it. Anyway, i'm totally loving it. It is seriously so much fun.

here are the most recent pics of the house. We took these while we were building basement walls on Saturday.


here are Cody and Chad building our basement walls. Thanks for coming Chad.

That was Saturday. As of today, the stairs and the main floor are in. We're proly doing exterior walls this Saturday.

Foundation

We went to the site again today. Mariah saw that there were no stairs and said,

"We need a ladder...or a plane to fly in."

Then she noticed the bare concrete and said,
"We need to paint the walls."

Here's our basement. It's finally starting to feel real.

Our house is growing

Well not yet, but here's the hole where we're planting it.

Mariah saw the big mounds and said, "There's our house......now where's our dog?"

Groundbreaking

Today we had the groundbreaking ceremony for our house.

Mariah was nervous about standing in the mud. She said, "Eeeww it's poop! But then she warmed up when we told her it was just wet dirt. Then she wanted to "dig in the dirt and make the house grow!"
As we drove away from the site Mariah said, " Oh no! Our house is missing!"

plans

This is what we'll be up to for the next few months...

We're going to build a house with 7 other families. We all help build every house under the supervision of a contractor.
so we'll be pretty busy.
if you live in the area, feel free to volunteer to help build or babysit. We'll buy you lunch and/or babysit for you!
And we'll still love you if you don't want to/can't help
We're excited!