Family Abroad

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Construction and More

We are now opened to our new addition. They knocked out our kitchen wall and windows that was blocking us from the outside addition part, so needless to say it's been a little chilly in the mornings when we've gotten up for school. Luckily all of our rooms have stayed fairly warm (our poor furnace is probably working double time to not only keep the regular part of our home heated, but also our new addition, which still has holes and NO insulation on it yet).

Lydia has some strange fascination with our new addition, unfortunately there are many nails and other items that we don't like her getting into, so we have to barricade this part all off.

We also had an incident dealing with a thunderstorm and a roof that was not sealed very well. Lot's of dripping water in our living room and our bedroom.

The last picture is one of a curious 3 year old and 17 mo. old. While mom was busy, they decided to pull ALL of the books off of the bookshelf and attempt to make a tent with the sheets off of everyone's beds. I wondered why they were soooo quiet--you'd think I would know better by now!! "Lucky" dad found this nice disaster just as mom was headed out to a prior engagement.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Construction Again

Here's my quick update for the week, as you can see they have moved very quickly getting the roof up. There has been even more done since these pictures were taken, I just haven't had the time to get out there and get some more updated ones yet. I'll try to get those ASAP.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Construction Cont'd

We thought the Framers would come on Mon. to start the framework, but they must've taken President's Day off (o.k. whatever-even my kids didn't get out of school for that) even though it was a perfect day (weather wise) for it.
So they ended up starting Tues. but I do need to give them Kuddos, because once they started, they flew!
They did 1/2 of it Tues., then came back Wed. and did the rest. Then Thurs. they worked till noon, but only because we were expecting some wicked storms (which did follow through and come).
This was the view most of Thurs. morning--they were up at roof level most of the time (notice the legs at the corner of the house above)
They started putting up walls Thurs. It's starting to look like real rooms.
On a sidenote, we aren't sure if when they cut our pine tree down there was a nest or two that went down with it, but we've seen these hawks pretty faithfully every day (even before they cut it down). They are "HUGE", at least in my eyes as far as hawks go, and there are 2 of them--so we're assuming male and female.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

A New Addition

Well, we have the beginning of a new addition to our family. If you haven't heard, we are adding onto our house, and we are all extremely excited about it.
The first thing to go was our huge pine tree. That was so neat to watch.

I think they were trying to aim the tree to fall at an angle towards our back fence, but it ended up falling towards our neighbors fence. Everybody held their breath for a minute until we got the "thumbs-up" that the fence was still in tact and without injury (phew!).
Then after tearing the tree apart limb by limb they burned most of it and hauled off the rest of it.

The next couple of days were filled with plumbers, and people getting the foundation ready to pour cement. They'd work for about 2-3 hours then leave until the next day.

We were so excited when they finally poured the cement 2 days ago--that time they were here ALL day even till it was dark.

Then yesterday they brought all the wood that will be used for the framework which they will start tomorrow.