Days 3-5

Foundation blocks are finished and the house has a shape!

Front porch

Garage

LOTS of fill dirt was brought in to “fill” in the house

 

Ready for the plumber

Day Two

The foundation blocks are being put in…  Tough job!

 

Looking at the front

At the front looking to the garage side

Back porch from inside the “kitchen”

 

From that same spot looking into the “living room”

What a mess

Back of house by porch

Boys by “the tree” where we stood for the Christmas cards (with nothing but trees the 1st year and then a clearing last year).  The dog, Bryan, belongs to my parents.

Day One

The countdown…or UP has begun.  We are at Day one where the foundation crew comes to layout the house and set the footers.  ( I am learning a lot of new lingo and Dennis rolls his eyes a lot!)

   

Just missed the shot where Ryan had his arm around Preston too

Dennis and my dad discussing Day one

Near the front door of the “house”

Getting ready

Dennis, his brothers, my dad and Ryan hooked up the water to the job site.  Ryan mentioned it at church as a Praise Report that they dug a hole and buried 2 football fields worth of pipe all in one day!

At the beginning of the driveway
 
Brent
 
Kenny

Down the driveway to the home site
Then the foundation man came and marked the house out so we could see if that was really where we wanted it.  We decided to move it 20 feet to the left (looking at house). This is Dennis showing me where we would move it to.

Ground Breaking

After years of dreaming, months of planning and days of organizing, interviewing and “getting things done”, we are breaking ground on our dream house!…Very Exciting!

I made Dennis pose for these pictures…I should have dressed him better Haha!

Official Photos

Finally here are the official photos of Dennis and the boys…one year apart

April 2010

May 2011

Busy Busy Busy!

Dennis came home and hit the ground running.  In the past few weeks we have picked out our windows and exterior doors, interviewed and picked a foundation guy, framer, plumbing/electric guy, and trim work man.  Found the perfect brick (maybe), picked out countertops, picked out some of our cabinets, had water and electric run to the building site, lowered the roof, raised the ceiling and added more square feet!  I am so exhausted! 

PLUS at work we just went through a special ed monitoring that determined my room is unsafe and I have to relocate before the end of the year!  There are only 10 school days left!  PLUS meetings, meetings, meetings and progress reports!  I might go insane.

The kids are great.  Both Preston and Grant received academic awards on awards day.  Ryan has not had his yet.  Preston just received the Coaches award in Baseball at the Varsity Sports Banquet (as a 9th grader he played 2 varsity sports and one JV sport).  Ryan’s Musical Theatre class just participated in the studio’s showcase.  He did GREAT and is more determined than ever that he needs to be discovered NOW!  They get out of school on the 26th.  (I get out on June 3rd)  Preston and Grant will be involved in sports workouts all summer and Ryan will go to a 4H camp.  Hopefully we will find time for a family trip or 2.

Ryan’s performance (we could not use a flash)

Preston with his certificates for playing varsity baseball and football and the Coaches Award for Baseball

More house pictures and updates soon!