Just another update. Because I can.

Yeah, that is the moon through the window. Cool, eh?

 I think Autumn is a little bit excited about moving.

 Stairs to nowhere. Just kidding, they are stairs to upstairs. Hopefully they will be finished tomorrow and we can actually walk around up there. It is entirely framed upstairs. Woooooooooooooo!

 Basement, plus flash. Seriously love the candid shot. 

 Autumn was not posing for one more stinking picture. She refused to come stand by us for the "shadow picture" So she is covering her face and yelling.

Um... More walls?

There will probably be way too many posts in the next few weeks. The house changes every day. She is going up right before our eyes! I'm actually getting a little teary, I mean, you blink and before you know it she has a second story. Oh, our kids are good too, I guess.

 It looks like we are getting an extra window on the front of our house that was not pictured in the artist rendering. Either that, or there is a hole in the front of our house.

This is the picture from the McArthur Homes site. Kind of. Acutally, I took the real picture they had and saved it in Paint. Then I got all 6th grade computer class up on it and changed the colors to what I imagine the house will look like.

WALLS! WALLS! WALLS!

So many things happening in the last ten days. We drove by last week and there was all of our lumber for framing sitting scattered about the foundation.

 The back yard was stacked with different color coded piles of plywood. Paint by numbers, maybe?

 We're in our garage! Please note the amazing proportions of my child bearing hips. It takes something special to push out my 95% head sized babies without creating cone-heads. Todd chose a good mother for his cranially gifted offspring.

 I have a boy baby! Todd won't suffer his entire life buried in nail polish and dress-up clothes.

 Then BAM!!! Walls! These pictures were taken last night. Amazing what can happen in two days! We stopped by on Thursday night and there was the subfloor all laid out. Then come Friday, we had walls all around. It is like a miracle. (without the angels, heavenly visitations, etc.) But still, like a miracle.

Happy Birthday Mister Max!

The first phase of house building takes a crap-load of time. A few things are happening here and there. I feel like it is just enough to get us excited about everything until we remember that taking the wood supports out of the basement windows doesn't mean the house is ready to move in to. I don't have any good pictures right now. Todd took some, but they were from his phone and small and you can't see anything new anyways. The biggest news is that they put all of the framing wood out in our front yard. They also poured our basement floors and our garage pad. Things are indeed happening.

Want to know what is even better than building a house? This kid... and the size of my gums. Impressive, right? Max's 1st Birthday was Saturday and we had a super fun fishy birthday party at my parent's house.

Bubbles!

 

 I love this kid!