Beau Turns Dos

I'm sure that you all have already figured this out, but time goes by so fast. Beau turned two last week and was very excited about his chocolate Mickey cake that Marta made for him. You can see that he also likes building things and in particual knocking the things down. He spent an hour with two of his cousins, Caleb and Jensen, building towers and then knocking them down. He is all boy.

Here's The Master Plan

Here is the big picture, and when I say big I mean long term. Within the next month or so we should be done with the shell of this design, but all we are able to do currently is the shell, so I will be left with three unfinished spaces. I'm developing my insulating, electrician, plumbing, hardwood floor, drywall, and finish carpentry skills as we plan to finish these spaces over the next couple of years. I think that I won't be out of things to do for a while...

Progress!

We finally have some visible progress to report. Our plumbing contractor has been the bottleneck as we have been waiting for rough plumbing before we could pour the basement floor. After nearly three weeks of no real progress we have begun the framing. In just a few days work we now have our main floor nearly enclosed. It is really exciting to be able to really feel the room layouts and see the window and back door placement. Today the framers are working on the ceiling and the subfloor for the second story. So getting the basement floor covered will hopefully help getting it dried out enough so that we can pour that concrete through the window. That is if we can get the plumber out.