Flooding, thankfully not the water kind of flooding...

Rob's garages

Basement and the mess

From the front door

Looking from the study into the foyer and dining room

Looking at Christian's room (on the right) and the baby's room (on the left).

Looking from Rie's hallway into the upstairs living room

Upstairs living room

Rie's room

Roof of our back porch, yeah.

Sheet Rock!!!

Looking from the pantry into the kitchen and living room.

Sorry this picture is out of order... but this is looking downstairs from the upstairs living room.

Rob is so happy with his big shower and overhead rain shower head

Our closet

Study

Upstairs living area as you walk up the stairs

Rie's room

Christian's room , the door leads to her dressing area.

Coming out of Christian's room. The baby's room is on the right, then the next door is Kaden's bathroom and the next door is Kaden's room. To the left are the stairs going down and the upstairs living room.

9.24.09

The brick is finished!!!

And here comes the sheet rock!!!

Rain, rain go away

GO AWAY RAIN!!! I love the rain and yet I'm so tired of the rain. We are at a stand still! No bricks, no sheet rock, nothing being moved/fixed inside. Pray we can stop the rain and get back to work. Thankfully we have had more traffic on our current house, but still waiting for a contract... so please say a prayer for that too:)

9.17.09

Finished with one side of the house! You can see our wonderful weather, too.

Going up the back of the house

Some drywall went up in the garage so that they could spray in the insulation on the other side (basement side).

In Rie's room, this is inside her room looking at the sitting area and the window.

A look at the wall/ceiling area after it's been sprayed. In yesterday's picture I showed the batting for the soffit and now it's been sprayed over.

As with all multi-level houses you worry about hearing people go potty above you. Ok, maybe that's just me. So, we had the plumbing sprayed with foam insulation as well!

PICTURES!

Yeah, they finished this front part of the bricks. Now they have to take down the scaffolding so the sheet rock can load up through that opening (we stapled plastic over the opening because rain kept pouring in). That should be loaded in by the end of the week and we are really hoping drywall is finished by the end of next week!

Back of house. It's been raining EVERY day this week. We hope they are finished by Saturday.... we hope.

Spray in insulation in the kitchen/living room

one front door, study, and stairs going upstairs

Hallway. Powder room is the door on the right and then the other door is to the master bedroom. The brown is "green" recycled batting.

Study and stairs going up

Looking out the front doors

Looking up from the hallway upstairs into the attic. Foam insulation in the attic! What a difference it makes already, even way up high.

Spray in insulation in the walls and then batting where the soffets are outside. They will come back and spray over the batting.

Then, it will look like this. View of the upstairs rec room, sprayed in walls and attic

9.15.09 update

After we started the brick (well maybe not "WE") the rains poured down on Monday and Tuesday. It did finally stop this afternoon for awhile so they started to brick some more. We are up to main level on the garage and back sides, which is about 10 feet tall. We are probably up to 8 feet on the front and the right side of the house where the fireplace is. We did get most of the insulation installed. The spray in foam is pretty amazing and has closed in the house quite a bit. They have just sprayed the outside walls, not the attic yet. But, with just the sides sprayed the amount of noise you hear from outside when you are inside is dramatically reduced. I can't wait to see how it keeps out the cold :) We hope the weather will cooperate tomorrow and they can finish bricking the front of the house first. If they do the drywall can be brought through Rie's front window up there and then they can finally install her window. (They left it open so they could load the drywall through her window, an easier lift than up the stairs or through the front door that has no front porch or walkway yet!) The insulation price came under budget (yeah!) so hopefully that will even out from the dirt we had to haul in at the beginning of this process... and maybe my appliances too! We just received our first drawings for the cabinets and emailed back our changes. So... we have to finish insulation (or installation as Rie and Christian call it) and finish bricks. We still need them to move a vent and the shower head. We also need to install another special hook up for the "high speed oven" we are getting. It's a microwave that also acts as a oven, now I just have to learn how to work it. Ha! Then the drywall and trim... As of right now our timeline is Thanksgiving.... we'll see.

**I promise to take a DIFFERENT camera the next time I go to the house. I'm starting to think it's the cable that connects to the computer because it's not working for 2 of our little digital cameras. So out comes the big Canon next time!

9.13.09 update

Well, we have pictures. We just don't have pictures that can download to the computer. I promise I'm trying! We did go by the house today and they started the bricks!! Yeah. We should have insulation tomorrow, hopefully. They were supposed to start last Friday but their machine broke. We are getting the spray in insulation in all the exterior walls and the attic. This type of insulation is supposed to decrease utility bills dramatically. After they finish then they can start sheet rock. That is scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday start date. I promise to keep working on our cameras so we can post pictures soon. But, at least you know we do have progress. We're still waiting on a couple of things to be fixed like a vent to be moved and the overhead rain shower head to be moved, but other than that everything is going well as of yet. Keep checking back!

9.5.09

Rob started adding audio cable (the white cable hanging down) so we could add speakers later.

We also put it out on the back patio...

Hook ups for the air conditioners

Air intake

Light Buff mortar... or a HUGE sand pit to climb in according to Christian

BRICKS!

Rough-In

It's been awhile, so what's new with the house? We have had plumbing including the kids tub/showers, HVAC come and put the vents in, J&K Electric put in our wiring, plugs, light switches, etc. And, ADT was out yesterday making sure we didn't have any windows that 3 teenage daughters could eventually sneak out of!

All of our electrical wiring meeting down in the garage as well as one of our AC trunk lines. We have one in the garage for the basement and main level. We also have another one in the attic for the kids level.

The view through our closet into our bathroom. On the right is my washer and dryer connections in the closet. Our laundry room will be upstairs with the kids so why not have my own in my closet?! Now all there is to do... teach the kids to do their own laundry!

View from the front door/study area. We have a plug and cable in the wall for the TV to hang on the wall, no little fingers changing the channel! There are can lights, plugs, and light/fan set ups. AND, 7 outlets in the kitchen. Woohoo!

View from Rie's room into the hall through the right door, her closet are the left doors. Past the closet is the laundry room and the upstairs living area with a view of the fields and "mountains."

Hopefully we will have a rough-in inspection by the end of the week.

Then, we'll start sheet rock and brick!