Jan 22

Things are moving pretty quickly with the house right now. About a week and a half ago the brick layers started working on the house. They started on the far right side of the house and worked their way to the left. They have most of the work done on both garages and are 3/4 of the way done on the porch. We decided to have them add some decorative keystones over each garage door, the dining room window and the front door. When the keystones are put into place the brick running on either side of the keystones act as a border. We're really pleased with the way they turned out and are glad we added that feature.

We also had the builder add what is called an "eyebrow" over the two car garage. The eye brow is a small roof line that extends from one side of the garage to the other. It seperates the brick from siding very nicely. We're glad we did that upgrade. Not only does it compliment the trasition from brick to siding, but it also carries the roof line all the way across the front of the house.

All of the dry wall is hung throughout the house. They hung the dry wall in three days. Does anyone remember how long it took us to hang our dry wall in our basement?? Ugh! D couldn't believe it when they said they'd have the entire house done in three days. They are returning to the house tomorrow to start mudding. I give props to anyone who does mudding as their full time job! D and I mudded our basement on our own (with the help of family and friends) and it was not fun!

The address marker was added to the front of our house the other day. For some reason that one little block of stone makes the house seem official. We've been telling people our new address for a while, but nobody could find the house because there wasn't a street sign or an address on the front of our house. We still don't have a street sign, but the address marker on the front of the house is a big help.

The other pictures show how the first floor of the house with dry wall done. I don't have any pictures posted of the upstairs because they're just bedrooms... Honestly it's hard to look at the bedroom pictures and make anything of them because it's hard to photograph bedrooms.

On a completely different note. N's language skills have really picked up in the last couples weeks. He is saying: cookie, cheese, hot dog, cup, guy and.... Chevy!

Enjoy,
C, D, N