A Roof Over Our Heads

As you can see from the photos our builder sent yesterday, we now have a roof on our house. In fact, they will be setting the big beams for our front porch today, and by next Wednesday they will be inside, beginning the plumbing, electrical wiring and so on. The third picture shows Brooklyn's room, it is over the front garage and has the neat dormers. I am excited for her to have it. Chris and I went to DC last week and had a blast! I will post those pictures soon. Have a great day!

one more

You can see the view of Tooele out the bay window in our bedroom and the clerestory windows in our great room. (And the rest of the windows in the back, but those are the ones I have). Notice the Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island right in the middle of the big great room window.

And More March 31, 2008

Ta-daaa! Walls!

Amazing, but a week later we have the main floor finished and everything is being boarded in. They have put stairs in both up and down, and framed in the garages. They have the truss package there and our builder said it will be put up on Wednesday. So, by Friday we will be able to see the roofline. I am not sure that you are enjoying the pictures as much as we are, but thank you for sharing it with us!

More pics

Ok, Here are the recent pics of the house!

Sorry it took me so long. Jeff and Jamie took these a week ago, (thanks guys!) and we are really excited at the progress! Some of them are hard to understand, but basically you are looking at the fully framed basement and the half-framed main floor. In the first picture you can see Jamie and Sadie on the driveway by the two garages. Off of the garages you go into the mudroom where there is a half-bath and laundry room. This opens up into the kitchen. The next pictures show the front porch(with all of the rebar) which is in front of Chris' den. Our master suite is behind it. I won't even try to explain the basement, it is even hard for me to make out with all of the crossbeams holding things up. We are excited to see the work from this week and hope that the top floor has been added. Enjoy looking with us!

The Mississipp, the ol' miss, the ol' man (and other rivers!!)

Hey everyone, happy Monday! I hope everyone had a happy Easter. I was obviously so overtaken by Easter that this morning at the gym I signed Brooklyn and Emmy into the tot care and wrote 'Easter' instead of Emmy. oops. Here are some pictures of the amazing flood we had here. I have never seen anything like it before. The picture of the statue in the water was taken downtown at Laclede's Landing by the Mississippi River. That statue is 21 feet tall just to give you an idea. Also, notice the pictures of the driving range with water covering a portion of the road. Then look at the same pictures a day later. The road is completely underwater, including the office building for the driving range. I do have new pictures of our house but I have to save them to my computer first and then I will post them.