Up on the roof

Thank you so much to my brother Colby and his wife Krista for letting us borrow their old digital camera. You're life savers! Now you can see that they have finished putting our roof on and the boys put most of the tar paper on yesterday.

Now you can see how the house comes out the back. Garrett loves to go outside in the addition any chance he gets. Here's the view from the family room looking at the bedroom, hallway, and behind.

And the view at the back wall of the family room where our TV will eventually go.

And here's a better look at our covered patio. How nice it will be to be able to go outside and relax in the shade or read a book.

Curtis and his brother Nic putting tar paper on the roof.

Curtis in his hard hat. Now he looks like a real construction worker, hehe.

My brother Stillman and Curtis continuing to put tar paper on the roof.

Rain, rain go away!

(Okay, this is the 4th time trying to get this posted. Our computer shuts itself off when the framers are working here.)

Well, the framers didn't get too far yesterday because of the thunderstorm and down pour of rain we had in the late morning. We even had some fun with water leaking into the house over the sliding door but Curtis was able to fix it. But the forecast says no rain today so they should finish up either today or while we're at the cabin. We are leaving sometime today and plan to be back on Sunday. So, since Curtis had some time on his hands yesterday (because he was suppposed to be helping the framers) he decided to go ahead and move the kid's window to the new wall.

The trusses that they did get done yesterday.

Stripping down the window.

Curtis cutting the wall where the window will be moved to.

Holy moly we have two holes in the bedroom!

Curtis and his helper, Andrew, who is our nephew, looking out the freshly cut hole for our window.

From here to....

there!

Curtis trying to piece back the hole where the window was taken out. We weren't able to cover up everything so will have to wait till we sheet rock everything else.

Walls

Well, thank you to Tamara for taking these pictures for me while I was gone to girl's camp. I'll have to post pics from girl's camp as soon as I develop the film and scan them. Anyway, when I left, there were just floors and now there are walls. As you can see they delivered the trusses but the framers were too busy on another job to come finish yet plus a few of the trusses were the wrong size, so the lumber place will have to fix that and bring out the right ones. So they are planning on doing to trusses tomorrow and Curtis will be here to help the framers lift them up so they don't have to charge us for using a crane.

There are the trusses.

View from family room looking at bedroom and hallway.

Family room windows

There's the little bathroom and the extended dining room.

A new sliding door will go in that hole and the trusses will cover the patio.

We have floors...and a broken camera

Well, the framers did start today and I was able to take a few photos of the progress before Nikki ended up breaking the camera. It was up on the bar counter and she kept climbing up there and playing with the flashlights and other stuff that was up there and I kept telling her not to. The next thing I know, I can't get the camera lens to retract. It doesn't come out straight anymore, it kind of goes at an angle and so now it's stuck and I can't take any more pictures. I was able to look at the pictures I already took and save them to my computer but for some reason the blogger is having issues too and I wasn't able to load them. So, we do have floors now and they started one wall. If anyone would like to come take pictures for me while I'm gone, that would be awesome!

On top of that our computer has been acting up and now I'm afraid of it crashing like mom and dad's did and losing all of our pictures. So I gave Curtis an assignment while I'm gone to girl's camp to save all our pictures to discs. Yep, that's right. I'm off to girl's camp bright and early in the morning and won't be back until Friday afternoon. It will be nice to get away from all these problems and just enjoy myself with the girls. See ya all later!