Stairs!

We have stairs!

The stringers were a 4th of July project just prior to going out to a Spokane Indians' baseball game with fireworks after the game

Porter loves the stairs and races up and down as we go up and down...

New framing for the addition!

New floor framed in for the stairs - and the pantry...

Came home today and the wall between the garage and the house for the pantry/stair area was up...

Now we are just waiting for our floor system to arrive...should have been today but now is Friday...it better be or we'll get behind!

Busy Weekend - Hoopfest, Backyard Fishing, and Family Reunion

Watched my brother Brian and his friends play in Hoopfest

...and Brian did some backyard fishing to get O'Neal's favorite stuffed basketball back from the neighbor's yard...

Good thing we kept our fishing poles and snagging hooks and lead!

Thanks for all of your help and fun this weekend Brian!

We also went to the Wottlin-Davis Family Reunion - I ran out of battery for my camera and did not take pictures but we had a great time seeing family at the cabin!

Busy Weekend - Addition

The garage roof/trusses were removed

The garage "push-out" was framed in

And the garage door header was moved to the new garage door opening!

It looks great!

Thanks to our family for all of the help so far with the cement work and the removal of the trusses, garage door, and the new framing!

Addition Update

Just an update since we returned from Juneau...

This is the garage footing...the new home to our stairs that will take you above the garage

This is a photo of the our fill work around the footings, as well as, prep for our new garage floor addition - which is coming tomorrow!

Earl using the ground compactor so that our floor does not crest in funny places or crack

Only one pile-o-dirt left and the front walkway is visible!

The front of our house now

This is the front of our house now...two big piles of dirt minus the excavator...We're trying to find a break in the rain to work on the footings so the inspector can come on out and check us off and then cement time.

More first weekend on the remodel/addition photos...

Scoopy-Bob is back on his trailer and the holes are dug and ready for footings...that was all going well until it started to rain like nothing else - or like Juneau...Thank goodness the rest of the weekend was beautiful and allowed us to get the tough work out of the way!

Digging out dirt from the footing area for a stim wall for the new set of stairs we are putting in...Don't I look tough!?!

As you can see Porter liked to help too! He jumped right on up to sit with me on the excavator - he didn't put on his best smile for the photo though...

I'm sledge hammering the cement into smaller chunks...Yes, I am wearing my pink Crocs...Probably not the best work shoes but they got the job done!

What a pile of cement! That isn't even all of it because we had the back of Earl's truck piled with cement as well...Earl guesstimated two and a half yards of cement - and he thought approximately 7000 lbs! Yikes!