Milestone!!!

We have reached a huge MILESTONE... We now have windows and our outside doors!!! The shingling is also finished and so is the wrapping of the house.

Next steps:
1. Siding

2. Electrician work

3. Plumbing work

4. Insulation

5. Sheet rock

6. Mudding

7. Texturing

8. Lighting

9. Priming

10. Painting
11. Deck

12. Flooring

13. Appliances, furniture, etc!!!!!!

14. Move in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note that this is how I see things going but then again I know nothing about the process of building a house but am quickly learning that if you have excellent people working on it you will have nothing to worry about! Thanks to everyone for their prayers and support and a big thanks to Signature Builders for all their hard work and for working saturday mornings too! You are all AMAZING!! THANKS!!!! Our FRONT DOOR!!!!!

The house is all wrapped...

The back of the house


The garage facing into the house with the kitchen
on the right and the laundry room to the left

The front of the house where our deck will eventually go!

BUILD, BUILD, BUILD...

We have rafters!!!! And we have a garage floor. Mom took Asher and Will to the house today to see a really big crane. They were quite impressed but had more fun playing in the dirt. BOYS :) The weather looks good for the rest of the week so we're hoping that all goes well. Thanks for all the prayers and support!

We have more progress!!! ***Take a look at our album to the right for new pictures***All of our framing is finished and sheeting is on the outside walls. Next step is to put up the rafters for the roof. Hopefully we have good weather tomorrow and Saturday so that can get done. Next steps to getting our new home: 1. Put rafters in. 2. Sheeting for the roof. 3. Shingles. 4. Wrap the house. 5. Siding...Signature Builders hopes that this will be done within 2 weeks willing we have GOOD weather. Please continue to pray for us that things will continue to go as smoothly as they are.

Start to our new HOME

We have started to REBUILD! We currently have a basement up with framework! This is exciting news but also nerve blowing...So many things to pick out and decide on. We have currently picked out: siding, shingles, front door, cabinets and trim color. Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoy seeing the progress.

Keep your fingers crossed!

We got some good news last night...we get to meet with our insurance adjuster on Friday afternoon. We are very excited, scared and nervous. We are hoping and praying that everything goes well. Please keep us in your prayers around 11:30 am on Friday 8/28/09 as that is when we have our meeting. We will try and post our findings as soon as possible so everyone can celebrate or wait some more with us.

Thunder, Lightnening and HAIL! OH MY!

Some of the hail stones we picked up.

Beautiful rainbow

make that a Double!

The beginning of the storm

Wednesday night around 5 pm, a storm came along. It lasted about 5 minutes and hailed alot! We didn't see any direct damage and the aftermath was beautiful with the rainbows. A couple of people even pulled into the driveway to take some pictures of it too.

Well no fire update...but here we are trying to add a little happiness back to the blog so we uploaded a bunch of our honeymoon photos. It was DJ's first time on a plane so that's why the pictures of the plane and what not. Maybe someday we will get back there. This will probably just be added to my "Hopes and Dreams Box."