Without further adieu dear friends and family, The New Nest has a roof! It took them one whole day to git 'er done. We also had a chance to talk to one of the builders (one of the bosses) today. He said that we should be in by late November, first of December without a problem! Looks like we'll be spending our first Christmas in The New Nest in '09! Yeah!!!!! Santa now has a chimney to come down, instead of the 'special magic key' we used to hang on the door for him.
We will send some more updates mid-week, as the windows will be in TOMORROW!! After the windows go in and the shingles are put on, it won't look like much but 2x4's in pics we take inside...but you can bet we'll be taking some anyway. Thanks to all of our friends and family that have sent their well wishes and excitement our way! This is really a wonderful time for us and we look forward to having lots of gatherings and celebrations....yes, we plan on getting grass as soon as we can in the spring. If not, we'll just move the party across the street to the Percy's or the Whalen's...they won't mind ;)
...till next time.
They are really plugging along on the house. We've been told that the exterior/interior framing and roof go up really fast...it's the interior that seems to take forever! Well, we can already see how easily it is to get excited at the progress, but then look to our neighbors and see that their house seems to be at a standstill....at least from the outside! We know that they have the plumbing in and that the electrical must be there too because the Percy's said they saw the heating/cooling guys there the other day. How wonderful it is to have our 'spies' in the neighborhood!
Garage --Brad LOVES the two big windows in his 3-car garage!
Back of garage and the back of the morning room, to the left. Below the morning room will be two windows, as well.
It's going to be rough looking through the window at this day-in and day-out ;)
The view from the back, before the backfill was completed. We discovered that our lot actually extends a lot wider than we had thought and there is a nice ravine between our house and the neighbor to our left.
...days later the lot was graded and backfilled. The kids are excited about having a real yard to play in! Owen, Avery, B and Daddy running up the future driveway.
