Tuesday, June 2, 2015

House update

A couple of weeks ago we were ready to pour our
basement.  The prep involved in this required plumbing (Not our thing) & heavy labor lots of shoveling/ moving of dirt by hand. Plus working regular full time jobs ,This equals =exhaustion.  So two miraculous things happened.  The loaded concrete truck is on the way & we can't cancel it.  Its paid for.  The plumbing inspection which we had failed the previous day was not going well,  This is down to the wire, the inspector, who happens to be a believer literally passes it moments before the concrete arrives.  In walks Ron & Rich.  They are not only expert concrete guys,  the support & morale they brought were exactly what Jeff needed.  It was a breaking point & besides if we're being honest we would probably have a very lumpy basement.  So very thankful the Lord provides what we need, when he knows we need it.  Also thankful for friends willing to lend a hand!







Ron smoothing things out, it turned out perfect by the way!
Generous cousins allowed us to borrow a piece of equipment.


We show our gratitude with nutty buddies.

Deciding on the color of the exterior was easy in our minds but not an in stock, super cheap choice.  We knew we get 1 chance to choose this color, it's not in the budget to change it if we don't like it.  So we work it that we can order a premium color, so that we don't regret the color every time we drive down our driveway.  We had chose the color in a certain profile.  When it comes in ,right color,  but wrong profile.  Since this was the vendors error we'll save the amount we paid extra for premium.  Yay!
Rockaway grey
The first piece.
It looks sweet with the thick white trim.  More pictures to come...
we like it :)









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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Smiling because the house is dried in :)
Now we can go to town with the inside!  

Sitting in our living room.




Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Our little house is finally coming along.  :)

J had to do some demo on the porch (sorry Les :( ) but it's looking just the way we had hoped.
Thanking the Lord for some very pleasant weather on Sunday!
Unexpected porch demo


Porch fail :/



Saturday, February 7, 2015

Trusses done ✓

Wow what a great day! Trusses are complete. On to the roof!  Thanks to Wayne, Dwight, Rob & Shirky for all the hard work today!

Saturday, January 31, 2015

snow, sledding, and some trusses,repeat

It is such a blessing to have the younger generation hanging out at our place!  And we don't even have a roof yet!  Already making some great memories.

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Monday, January 19, 2015

The Wall

First & longest wall is set!  Lots of manpower to set a 54' wall.