This is going to take awhile

Last ditch effort before we call it a night & resume 1st thing tomorrow morning. 

Just wanted to share these everyday normal pictures about this amazing kid who truly loves the Lord and has overcome some tough obstacles :)

So thankful he can just be a kid and do what boys do, like playing in the dirt.  We could have lost him or he could easily have lost his ability to do this, due to his injury during the project.

So grateful our God heals and restores!

¥Last steps before we power up.¥

Phase 1 of 2

Digging the 350' trench from the house up to the road where we will tap into the power company to run our electric line.

A seperate trench will be dug at a later time for the sewer. Unfortunately these 2 cannot share the same trench.

Its been an interesting journey with mistakes made lots of frustrations and unforseen  circumstances. Despite it we have just kept taking steps towards moving in.  We're doing only what we must to receive temporary occupancy.  Were getting desperate lol! Seriously though we are.  We have much to be grateful for & We're looking forward to looking back on all the hard work.

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Like I said, this is going to take awhile...

Brother Randy is very good at running equipment & moving the earth. Haha

Decks up!

Internally all drywall is hung just not finished.

Awesome electrician and bil Duane

Hey thanks for stopping by our blog , hope you'll come again sometime :)

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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Smiling because the house is dried in :)

Now we can go to town with the inside!  

Sitting in our living room.

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 :/

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!

starting on the porch!

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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House is starting to take shape

The Wall

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

Men At Work

Very thankful for these men willing to lend a hand!

Thanks Randy ,Shirky, Chris & Mark!!

Nailing down the floor joists.

slow but steady

Finally got the steel beams set.  No crane no problem.   The weather hasn't cooperated one bit.  We're making small strides but at least we're getting this project done little by little.

Plates

Actually doing some framing in between the raindrops. The first plate!

rear view

This is the wall for the daylight basement

Good day of masonry.  Footers done & well on the way with the block work.

Block

Before-

Basement blocks

Some water had frozen in the basement from the rain the other day. We were not able to pour concrete. We have passed that now & expect to do the block work today.  

In The Trenches

Oh what a night!  Trying to hammer metal rebar into solid rock= frustrating.  At least we know we are building on solid rock!!

Rain Rain Go Away

Everything is dug for the foundation. It's supposed to rain all day. Hopefully these tarps do their job & keep the rain from filling up the hole!

Its A Diggen Day!

Last night part of the basement was dug. Finally progress!  :)

Raindrops

Lingering raindrops.