Last Week's Progress

Here is the outside. You can see most of the siding is done on this side and the french doors are in place.

Here is the other side where the siding is finished.

This is the new HVAC unit.

Here is an overview of last week's accomplishments of the HVAC guys.

Here is the entry to the new hallway. Notice the labels where the linen closet and doorway to our bedroom used to be before they tore them out.

Here is the hallway. The wall to the left is the wall of what will be Lily's room and to the right you see the laundry and linen closet. At the end of the hallway is the entrance to our new room.

Now that you have your bearings (hopefully) you can look below to see a more comprehensive look at the area.

This is what you can see of what the plumber did last week. There is probably lots more behind walls and such.
All in all a pretty productive week I'd say.

Not so interesting in pictures...

So the roof is done. Now the HVAC guys and plumber are hard at work. The pictures are not so interesting. Pipes and ducting. I'm glad it's there, but it's kind of boring. I think I'll do a collage type thing when it's all up to show the difference closer together.

Another Day, Another Dollar...or 6,000

Jay ordered the fixtures for the bathroom today. I like what we chose, but I am still a little worried about how it will all come together with the tiles and sink and everything. He ordered the sink faucets, shower head and knob, a commode, and all the accessories we'll need for towels and such. That stuff really adds up fast- hence the title.
The roofer was here today and he had help! They finished most of the roof. I have a picture, but I'm too tired from moving stuff to make space and running around all day doing errands to go downstairs to upload it to the desktop, so you'll have to wait. Jay is wiped out too. He cleared a ton of space in the garage and the basement. I think we'll go to bed now and try to rest our weary muscles;-)

Gymnastics Camp

I just dropped Ryan off for his first day of gymnastics camp. It's the first time I've ever dropped him off for anything besides Sunday school and for that I'm still in the building and they can call me out of service at any time if he needs me. I just remembered there was one time we dropped both boys off for a play time at gymnastics, but they were together and we didn't stray more than a half mile from the gym. This seems different somehow. I'm all a flurry with mixed emotions. I'm proud of how much he has grown and how well he handled himself as he walked off to camp. I'm excited for him that he is experiencing fun new things. I'm nervous that he won't know what to do with himself or that something will happen because I'm not there. I'm a little sad, I'm not sure why. I tried to smile and talk only about how fun it would be and what a big boy he is so he wouldn't feed off my emotions.

I think he has some mixed emotions too.
I'm sure he'll be fine, but I'm still waiting by the phone and checking the clock obsessively to make sure I am there on time to pick him up.

Two Day Catch Up

I told you exciting things were going to happen this week, but even I didn't know how exciting it would get yesterday. We had yet another ferocious thunderstorm. It happened in one place in the whole state and it was right over our house! This time they were done work for the day, so it didn't affect them, but the rain pouring into our house freaked me out a little bit. [I should note here that the rain is coming in because of the termite damage in addition to the fact that we have no siding and the gutters are not in yet.] Luckily nothing got ruined that we weren't intending on replacing anyway(ie the downstairs carpet). The roofer was back today, so I'm hoping the state parks association won't have to come by and declare the waterfall in our family room a no build zone or anything.
Now maybe you understand why there was no update yesterday. I was a little busy gathering all the old towels and stuffing them places to try to stop the carnage. Then of course there was the clean up so said towels didn't cause mold.

Without further ado I give you pictures from yesterday...

Here the boys watch as they take out the slider and wall between our house and the addition.

Disappointed boys arrive to find the whole in mommy and daddy's room covered up.

The window from the hole in our bedroom.

TODAY-
Today was crazy busy for me. I had two appointments the morning and three kids. I saw the window truck arrive as I left and when I returned home we had windows!

I went up to check out our room and found holes. Not one, but two holes letting in all the hot air. Thank goodness the doors were both closed keeping that hot air mostly separate from the rest of the house's air. It was also good that we were out of the house because it was pretty warm even with the doors closed.

All the windows in the addition were in, so the only one left was the bedroom.

I also found this very pleasant surprise. It's our shower stall! I didn't know they were going to build it so soon.

The overall view of the house today with windows!

The bedroom window is now in and the guys are packing up. I have yet to take the end of day pictures.

Evening update:

Matt, our contractor, went around and filled all the potential leaky places with some sort of yellow goop. Let's hope the works, at least for now. They also fixed all the termite damage they could get to without causing more problems. They "sistered" another board next to the old one. The framers are finished for now. They will be back to put in the back door and later to put in a couple windows and a slider in the existing part of the house. That way we can move some of the stuff down into the addition and make room for them to move.

We are getting squeezed pretty tight now. We have to make room in the garage so they can put a furnace for the addition, we have to clear space in the basement for the electrician and the new furnace down there and now we have to clean out our closet so they can build a bigger closet for the washer and dryer and hopefully the new wall. The new wall will divide our old room into a hallway and a smaller room that will be Lily's. I don't know where we are going to put all our stuff! I guess I'd better start figuring it out.