Things are coming along....

We have had a great week of weather here in Southern Oregon. During this weather break we have been blessed to get a lot done on the house.

The plumbing and HVAC is in. Before the flooring comes in on Monday there's a bit of water that will need clean up. Hmmm...and I know just the teenager for the job!

  Speaking of kids....Quinn is loving the outdoors. Here he is asking Avie "wanna fight"? A little while later he was playing in the dirt and managed to fling dirt onto the wet cement floor.

We were able to pick out the rocks and such but then he did it again. The picture below is Quinn after the stick was taken away.

Quinn pouting

 

 

This is a picture of the boys pouring concrete. It was 38 degrees and one of them was even sleeveless. They were working hard and on a Saturday too. Hopefully the completed garage floor will make the framers job a little easier.

Here is Avie standing in the hole for our deck footings.

Here are the footings after being poured today.

We have been really fortunate to have found Jim Brown our contractor that did our foundation and garage slab. He will also be doing our masonry fireplace. Anyways...he called Thomas and told him the time to come up so the kids could put their names in the concrete. Here is Thomas and Taryn making a plan.

Here is the finished product and quite possibly my favorite part of this house. The kids were wishing Auzzie was here so he could have been included too.


Any of you who know me are well aware of my indecisiveness. I am running out of time to pick out windows and I need to get plumbing fixtures ordered.
To continue with the craftsman theme, I think I have decided on these windows.


Thankfully...I still have a few days to think about plumbing fixtures!

And so it begins.....

So I must start this week with out little Quinn. He really enjoys preschool and is learning a lot. He especially likes circle time, each day they learn one or two new signs. He flashes me an "I love you" all the time now. My sweet little man.

So we arrived at the house today to see the floor joists completed. Here is a picture of Avie checking out the view. I really can't believe how excited she is about this house!

Our little Quinn is always in motion, probably why so many of my pictures of him  turn out fuzzy. Anyways, Quinn and Thomas are standing in our future full masonry fireplace. This was one of many fights that Thomas has won. I grew up in Burns Oregon with a house heated with wood only. Frankly, I hated trying to start a fire and especially hated cleaning up the messy floors. But...he had his heart set on it. I think it will be beautiful and I also think Thomas might be getting a new vacuum for his birthday present.

Here is another picture of Thomas checking out the progress. I can't help but think about the view that we are going to enjoy once we are living here.

This is our outside garage wall. Thomas and Taryn spent some time last weekend cleaning this up, only to get another few inches of rain. I think I know what Taryn is doing this weekend. No wonder she doesn't like us much.

Well...here is Avie being goofy again. Next week the plumbing and HVAC will be roughed in the crawlspace. It's really exciting to see all these changes every week!

The foundation has begun

It's been awhile since I have had anything new to post. We had over 10 inches of rain in December, hence, no work was being done.

 There is still a lot of water

 

The lower part of the foundation. When finished it will be about about 5 feet high.

Silly kids. Quinn is excited for the new house so he can get his toys out of storage. Avie is just excited because she will finally have her own room.

 

 Avie was so excited about the sunset tonight. This will be the view from her bedroom balcony.

If the weather holds....the builder should start in about 5 days. This is the exciting part!