September 4th...the flooring starts

Today Matt and crew worked on the basement inside walls and the beginnings of the top floor. I love coming home from work to see how far they've gotten each day. PJ and Phil went to Duluth today to go shopping at Menards...purchased and picked up doors and geothermal tubing. The windows have been ordered and are at A-Plus, waiting to be delivered. The trusses have arrived and await their turn to go up. I can't wait to see the top walls go up to actually see a full scale of the house, even if it's a rough scale.

September 3rd...the framing starts

Today is September 3rd and Matt and Dave have started to put up the frame. It's so exciting to see the house take shape!

Final Cement pictures...

More Cement pictures...

Cement slab is poured

The above pictures are all from Monday, August 18th, very early in the morning. Skip and crew came to pour the cement around 6:30 AM. They moved quickly and did a fabulous job!

Time sure does fly...

Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Had a little medical mishap, but it's fine now and school has started, so I'm busy busy busy. My school site is connected to our house site, just go to my profile and you can access my school page (if you want to check out what me and a bunch of little preschoolers are doing!)

After plumbing was put in Phil, PJ, Gary and Ben worked at covering the sand with the pink insulation and then the in-floor heating tubes. Pictures above are from this. Grandpa Eugene brought his firetruck over to help hose down the sand so that it was easier to work with. Benjamin could not help but run under the water as it was being sprayed across the floor. He had a great time in Great-Grandpa's truck too.

August 10th...already?

Yes, I know, it's been quite awhile since my last post. My apologies...I had a class to take last week and some much needed catching up on home things this past week. So, here are some pictures from late July and early August. These are pictures of the basement at the early stages of backfilling, I'll post updated ones later in the week. PJ and Phil have been hard at work backfilling the basement walls. The walls are rock solid now and it's amazing to see the structure there, even if it is below ground (for the most part.) The garage sand has been leveled and we now await the completion of the plumbing. After that gets put in we will be all set for the slab to be poured for the basement floor. That is scheduled for this Friday, August 15th. We're all excited for that process to start and Ben and I will be there to watch and later put our handprints in the cement, probably in the garage area where we can see them (we've toyed with the idea of footprints too.) Stop back this weekend to catch pictures of the slab cement being poured. After that has had time to cure and harden, sometime hopefully in the end of August, early September (yikes, that's school time already!) the top part of the house should be going up.