Still Framing

After a good week of work last week, most of the frame is up. There are only a few things that remain to be done by the framers. Two major things are decking the roof and completing the siding on the upper part of the house. Other than those two things there are a few little things that need to be done. Notice the stairs are complete as well as the cornice (sp ?) work around the outside of the house. The picture of Camdyn with dirt on her forehead is when she tripped and fell. She had a nice bump on her head, but was gone the next day. Maybe by next post the framers work will be complete.

Resembling a House

Slowly, but surely construction on the new home is beginnning to look like a house. Last week, they worked about a 1/2 week. This week has started better, as they worked today. As you can see from the pictures, they have began to frame parts of the roof. They still have work to complete on the 1st floor, but it is starting to look what is on paper. As for our current home, we signed a contract on it yesterday. Pending all of the inspections and appraisals, we should be closing around the end of October. Now we are in the process of finding temporary housing.

FRAMING - FINALLY

Last Tuesday the framing finally began on our house. The first couple of pictures is what they completed the first day, which was about half of the first floor. Since then they have completed very little. We are not really sure what the delay is, but for some reason they are working only part days and with a small crew. They have completed most of the bottom floor now and some of the joist. It is neat to walk through the house and see where all the rooms will be. The pictures with the kids is of one day when we were out there for a couple of hours talking with our builder and watching the workers work. The kids had fun playing on the lumber and dirt. They got quite dirty. The last couple of pictures are of Craig's '66 Ford. He decided we should get it out of the garage. We spent a day loading it onto a trailer and taking it to the land.

Baby Brinley

My sister, Kristy, had her 1st baby on Thursday. Her name is Brinley Grace. She weighed 6 lbs. 15 ozs. and 20 inches long. Everybody is at home and doing well. She is Camdyn and Carter's 3rd cousin and they have 3 more cousins on the way. Camdyn loves to hold her and does very well with her, except for the time she pinched her nose. Carter is very gentle with her too. They both like to give her kisses.