New house- Week 3- Framing

On Saturday, September 24 the framing on the house started.






By Monday the 24 the second floor was started. It's crazy how fast they are building it.



We went over there Tuesday night at 6:30pm and the "Monsters" as Raegan calls them, were still working. So we couldn't go upstairs and check things out but were able to walk around the downstairs. The roof is on and the black tarp down so the shingles will probably start sometime next week. As well as windows going in maybe by the end of this week.

Front-


Side-


Other side-


Back-


Fireplace-


Family Room-

House week 2... foundation!

September 21, 2011- Foundation of the new house was poured! Yay! Hopefully within the next week or so the framing will start! I can't wait to drive by and see the wood for the framing sitting there waiting to be put up!

Tonight when went on a walk to see the finished foundation. It was a beautiful evening.

The joys of a potty trained princess. The potty comes with on walks!


Ryan walking in the front door


3 car garage


Back patio


Raegan playing in the new house


Going potty at the new house! Better than the port-o-pot!



So pretty

Baby Grace!

Raegan is getting quite the imagination. I love that she is so creative and her imagination is really coming out. She is so fun to play with. She is such a little mommy with her baby dolls. She finally has named her babydolls all by herself. She named them Baby Grace. (Kaylie's middle name is Grace and she likes calling her Kaylie Grace.) She calls most of her babies Baby Grace, but her little mini circo dolls from Target are her favorite and they go every where with her and she has to sleep with them at night. She has two, we left one at the lake on accident and so she was down to one but she was ok with that. But then one night we couldn't find Baby Grace. It was a rough night. I had to go to Target the next day and buy another one. And then of course the original Baby Grace was found.

Baby Whitney

I have started watching another friends baby on Mondays and Wednesdays along with Kaylie. Kaylie is now 16 months and Whitney is 3 months. Whitney is a really sweet baby and Raegan loves her. She wants to help me with everything. Feeding her, burping her, holding her, changing her diaper. She will be such a good big sister... someday!

First Day of School!

This will be our annual first day picture!



Raegan's first day of Mother's Day Out was on August 30. She goes just on Tuesdays from 9:15-1 to our churches preschool. The first day I cried for a good hour after dropping her off the first time. Second day I cried for like 10 minutes after dropping her off. Today, I didn't cry at all! Yay! Go me! She loves school and her teachers. She has so much fun. Today after picking her up she was telling me about her new friend Kylee and how they colored with markers.

Meet the teachers day


First day of school (she wanted to ride the school bus)

Class schedule


Apple tree she made

House update!

Oh, I have been terrible about keeping up with house stuff on here. We have been so busy picking everything out and finalizing the plans with the builder. We had a tough time deciding on hardwoods. We (I) want cherry cabinets. But they cherry floors make everything look very cherry. But the other hardwoods just didn't go well with the cabinets. So we went with the cherry floors. Hopefully it wont look as cherry as this picture of another house we walked through to look at our options.


We went with oil rubbed bronze fixtures, nobs, everything. And then our granite we chose is Venetian Gold 2 (or something like that)

The hardest decision of all was the exterior package. We knew we wanted black shutters but weren't really sure besides that. We ideally want white siding and dark brick, but that is not an option for our neighborhood right now. Stupid. They have just about every shade of tan you can imagine though. Grey and then sage green. If I liked the siding, I didn't like the brick options. We waited til the last possible minute we could to choose. It was between Sandstone, which was a light yellowish/offwhite. Or Dover Grey. I liked the darkest tan which was pebble but I wanted to stay away from tan since there are so many shades of tan in the neighborhood. We ended up going with the grey with Ceder Creek siding.



We had our pre-construction meeting at 9am on September 8. As soon as the meeting was over we broke ground. Yay! Everything is set to be done at the beginning of December and move in by Christmas! Woo!