Update for Jay

Trying to get this in before 5 so Jay can see:-)

Walls!

This morning the framers came and started building walls!

This is where they are at what appears to be lunch time.

Status Report

There has not been a workman (is it okay to say that?) here since Saturday. There was some problem with a broken down truck and then the 4th and all that rain. Hopefully someone will be here tomorrow. The framer is supposed to start Monday! I can't wait to see something going up. I know the slab is there, but it doesn't look much different than the porch. I think it will really start to feel real when some walls go up. I'm excited.
Even though no workmen have been here this week it has not been without progress. Jay and I have been to the tile store and two bath stores twice each. We picked out everything we need to outfit our bathroom, I think. Every time I think we don't have any more to pick something else comes up. We're not 100% on the toilet color and the vanity, but I think we are close. We actually ended up changing our minds on something we had been sure of since the beginning once we looked at it with our colors. We were sure we wanted brushed chrome fixtures, but we ended up going with satin nickel because it seemed to go with our tile better. I do like the satin nickel quite a bit and I really love it with the rest of our color choices. I really hope this all comes together well because it's hard to picture everything bigger than the samples.

Happy 4th of July!

Today we celebrate our country. I feel so blessed to live in the good old US of A. I'm grateful for the people who fought so hard to make life work here and those who have continued to make it better. I can't imagine wanting to live anywhere else. It's a great country. As Lee Greenwood would say, "I'm proud to be an American."

Special thanks to those who serve our country in the Armed forces, the police department and the fire department. Thanks for defending our lives and our freedom.

Weekends go so fast

It's Monday. How can it be Monday? It doesn't feel like we had a full weekend. Jay even had a 3 day weekend because he took Friday off. I don't feel like there has been any time to relax. Friday we went to the tile store and the plumbing store. We were going to go to the carpet store, but the first two were so exhausting and took so long we didn't have the time or energy to try to pick out one more thing. Who knew shopping for fixtures could be so hard?! We manged to pick a tile, maybe two that we are pretty sure we want to use. We still have to pick a sink, shower and toilet (I hope my mom-mom doesn't read this post, I said toilet!) to go with it, but hopefully we will find something that works. It's much harder than I thought it would be to pick everything for our bathroom. Just when I think I know how much there is to pick something else come up, like the hardware for the vanity. All of Friday was disappointing. The construction was a disaster. The poured the concrete for the slab and just as they were about to get the last bit in and smooth it the bottom of the sky dropped out and drenched the slab and the poor workers. They tried holding plastic over it while they smoothed it out, but the rain kept coming hard and they had to leave the plastic on when they left. When they returned all dried off after the rain stopped the concrete had hardened with ripples from the plastic in it. They had to tear out the whole thing. The only good part about the whole thing is that we are working with such a good company. They were able to tear out the whole thing Friday afternoon. They came back Saturday morning and redid the slab so they wouldn't trow our construction schedule off too much.
Saturday I did a bunch of work for my Creative Memories "business" and a little bit around the house. Sunday I went to a double Christening for my cousins' babies. Well it was actually a huge multiple Christening, but I only knew two of the babies. We went to a party after and the host had a pool, so our whole family ended up in it. We were on the road that leads to Jay's parent's house on the way home, so we decided to stop by there on the spur of the moment. We stayed there until almost bedtime. We got home, got the kids in bed and then it was time to wrap up a few things and go to bed ourselves. The few things took way longer than we planned and we went to bed way too late and still didn't feel like we did all we wanted to. So this morning arrives and another work week starts and the weekend seems like a distant memory.
I checked my blogs this morning and realized I had not checked them since early Saturday morning or maybe even Friday night. Now that is a busy weekend!