Walls and Floors!

So much progress is happening on the house! Something new has been going up almost every day! 

We started out August with just a couple of walls up. 

 

And slowly plugged along. A couple hours every night, and then a big burst of progress on the weekends. 

Because the garage is below half of the upstairs we had to have some major boards and beams to make it secure.  I think this "post" is 9 or 10 2x6's.

And we had to buy three engineered beams to meet code. The middle one is HUGE! They used the pickup and a lot of leverage to get it into place. 

Grandpa and Grandma came over almost every weekend in August and were a HUGE help!!

Framing is so fun because it's so much visible progress so quickly! 

Buggy is our babysitter when we work in the evenings. She is doing a great job with Lou. Boo does great too when Buggy is unavailable. I'm hoping she'll be able to take the same Safe Sitter class that Bug did when she gets old enough.

Starting on the upstairs floor...

We got a record breaking rainfall one weekend and even though we laid down sheeting and tarps a lot of water still came in. Thankfully we were able to get it cleaned up and dried out and it didn't seem to damage anything. 

Over the course of another week we slowly got the upstairs sheeted.

We both totally forgot about Peanut and Peaches' window seat so we had to backtrack and put it on.

Looking good!

My tractor helpers.

"Vroom vroom" as Peaches says. :) 

It's coming!