We have walls!!!!!

Exciting day for building a house. I stopped out at lunch today and snapped some pictures of the workers finishing up the flooring plywood. It was a beautiful day outside and the guys were very focused on their work. Unfortunately, I had to go back to work and finish my inventory, so I couldn't stay and help them out.

After school, I had our student council pizza party so I couldn't get out until about 4:30, but I picked up the kids and we drove to the house. Spencer wanted to go see the forklift, and then saw his new friend (see slideshow), so wasn't properly impressed with the fact that we have walls!!!! But holy cow, the place looks like a house now and from the back, it looks absolutely huge! I got shivers imagining decorating and finding all our stuff from the various storage units and finally getting them into our own house again.

The neighbor mom and I took all the kids to tour the first floor of the house, so Spencer and Carson got to stand in their rooms for the first time and look out their windows. We haven't decided who gets which room yet, but I am thinking about having both rooms painted blue. Blue works with any little boy theme I can dream up. Cars, trains, dinosaurs, etc. I didn't get any pictures of the kids in the house yet, because I had a death grip on Carson so he wouldn't jump out the front door opening.

I'm afraid that we overstayed our welcome at the neighbor's (sorry!) because just as I was warming Spencer up to the idea of getting ready to leave (he always wants to stay and play in the sandbox), a big blue dump truck full of mulch drove up and dumped it in the their driveway, then it drove around to the back and backed up across the empty lots behind us and dumped the rest of the mulch in their backyard. You can see the boys playing on the mulch mountain in today's slideshow.

I have no idea what the next step of the building process is, maybe stud in the interior walls, or start on the roof trusses, or frame in the garage? Only time will tell, so stay tuned for the next update!