Week Three {Day Five} ...

 On Friday our guys got the interior walls framed on our house! This was super hard to capture via picture, but I did my best. I also forgot my camera and was using my I-Phone... so these are not by any means the greatest pictures, but you get the point! With this picture {above} and the one below I am standing in our soon to be garage while taking the pictures.

 Backyard shot. 

 Walk-out basement shot. 

 Rock wall by the basement. 

Sweet boy with dirt all over his face from playing on the property!

I am way behind this week seeing as it's already Wednesday and I haven't been out to the house this week. Porter is sick and so I have been lounging and taking it easy with him & Weston.  This week they have been working on framing our second story, doing some more excavating work and yesterday they started drilling our well and will finish today! As soon as I am able to I will get out there so that I can take some updated pictures and post them. 

Last week we picked out our carpet {we will only have carpet in the upstairs bedrooms} and a few different hardwoods that we need to chose from still {for the whole main level, except the mudroom which will be tile}. We have an appointment tomorrow to pick out our tile {for bathrooms, and mudroom} and will finalize our kitchen cabinets on Friday. We also need to pick out or siding color this week and so far this has proven to be one of our biggest challenges. Siding color isn't really something you can mess up on because it's not an easy fix! I sure hope we find a color we love, and are confident in, soon!

Week Three {Day Three & Four} ...

On Wednesday, July 27th, they started framing our main level walls. I never made it out there that day because it was Porter's birthday and we were celebrating all day, but while I baked Porter's cake Nick took Porter out there for a little while and sent me this picture...

 How fun! This is the front of our house. The bump out you see is our entry way/front door.

 Back of the house and a view of the walkout part of the basement. 

 On Thursday they continued framing and got all of the walls up! We ended up going out there that night, with a picnic, and eating dinner with Nick's parents in our future dining room. It was a gorgeous night and we didn't want to leave.

 The excavators were also there working that day and filled in and leveled all the dirt behind our house and also in the front. Before there was a big {man made} mound of dirt in the front of our house so that the cement trucks could drive up there and access the house as the needed too. It was hard to envision just what the front of the house was going to look like with all the dirt there so I was really excited when I got out there last night and saw they had moved it all! 

Our excavators are great. I couldn't be more pleased with them, and their work. 

 Nick also got more of our fence done.

 We got sandwiches from a local sandwich shop. It was delicious.  Here is Porter and Papa Ed. 

 Weston was all smiles, too!

Porter loved running all around the house. Here he is peering out of one of our living room windows.

Week Three {Day One & Two} ...

 On Monday they started framing our main level floors and also framing our basement walls! I have to say that this really made it feel real! This is our HOUSE! I am beyond excited. 

 On Tuesday they continued framing. I stopped by in the middle of the day to check on the progress and they were almost done with the floor. They finished it by the end of the day! I haven't been out there yet today {as I have been spoiling my sweet oldest baby, he is two years old today!} but we will head out there later tonight as a family. I can't wait to see the progress! It's amazing how much difference one day makes.

Yesterday we picked out our toilets, bathtubs/showers, faucets for the bathrooms and kitchen and our kitchen sink. I am SO excited for our kitchen sink {more to come on this later}!