it's starting to look like a house!

the addition is slowly coming along... dh and some helpers got the shingles on the main roof on this past weekend so we can now get the door to the addition knocked out! that will be very exciting as i haven't been in the upstairs portion yet due to my fear of heights, lol. we're also clearing out the room the door is going into tonight. that means progress  :-)

of course, shingling the roof did not coming free of drama... the first day was perfect, warm and sunny, but pretty well perfect. until it rained that evening and the roof started leaking cuz there were parts of the roof left unprotected for the next day. twas not fun dealing with an overly stressed dh who when the weather goes sour, so does he  :-/  and of course it rained the entire next day so the poor guys worked through the rain to get it done. it looks good though as it doesn't have a visible line where the addition and existing house meet (i'll have to get a picture later on). the only shingles left to do are a 7'x18' section on the lower roof because the existing roof was just done 2 years ago  :-)

now we begin the process of getting the floor of the garage ready for concrete so we can get the doors and windows installed in the addition, as well as get drywall upstairs before the windows go in so we don't have to haul the sheets up the stairs through the house... then we can also work on getting the new windows in the existing house and try to get a hold of someone to do the siding for us (and probably saving ourselves a couple weeks worth of work and frustration). by that point, we should be able to finally get working on the inside and the most existing part of the addition!!!

our house looks huge!

that's what our house looks like right now... well a lot more wet since its been raining and stupid windy for the last day and a bit... but its progress nonetheless so that alone is very exciting  :-D

we still have that stupid dirt mountain in our front yard but its not going anywhere until we find someone to take it off our hands. i guess that's okay, just at some point before we actually start using the new bathroom, we have to have it out of the way so we can tie in the plumbing...

given how the weather has been today, i wouldn't be surprised if our framer decided to work on something else, lol. we should have the trusses and last bit of sheathing on tomoro as well as possibly our windows, but he might wait a few more days before doing that. dh is also likely to shingle the lower front roof this coming weekend and then we're trying to get a group of guys together to shingle the main upper roof next weekend... hopefully we can find some help cuz i'm of no use due to my slight fear of heights.

we've also got to start clearing out the spare bedrooms so we can begin demo on them, especially since there will be a door to the addition in one of them very soon. once we get about a week from putting up the siding, we'll go ahead and replace the exisiting windows and doors, but that's probably not til august. also on the agenda very soon, getting that slab in the garage once the roof is on!

busy busy busy around our house.

... like it would be anything but busy :-P