House Building - Week Eight, Part 2

I made the jaunt up to the house tonight after the girls went to bed.  I found that all sheet rocking has been completed as well as natural gas has been plumbed from the street.  I'm not sure what the next step is, I'll have to ask my general contractor tomorrow.  Here are the photos.

Garage, long stall.

Garage, short stall.

French doors into the office/kids play room.

Main level living room.

Main level living room including arched entry into foyer on right.

Main level living room looking back towards kitchen and mud room.

Arched entry into dining room.

Tray ceiling in foyer.

Close up of pantry in center, foyer on left and kitchen through to mud room on right.

Upstairs landing.

Master bedroom with tray ceiling.

 Master bedroom looking back towards french door entry on left and bath on right.

Natural gas meter from street.

House Building - Week Eight, Part 1

I took these photos this past Sunday once we got back from the cabin.  Last I saw the house they were insulating in preparation for sheet rock.  At this point all insulation is done other than spraying the ceilings.  They have finished sheet rocking the basement and all of the ceiling in the upper level.  I'm hoping to get out there tomorrow to check on the progress.

Insulated garage.

You can see the hanging sheeting, this is where they were doing the spray insulation.

Basement fireplace vent.

Both basement and main level fireplace vents.

Main level living room.

Spray insulation.

Basement sheet rocking.

Back wall of basement.

Basement looking back towards bedroom and bathroom.

Inside basement bedroom looking towards walk in closet and bathroom.

Basement shower.

Basement stairs.

Master bedroom tray ceiling.

Master bath looking towards closet and Heather's vanity.

House Building - Week Seven

The windows are in and the shingles have been completed.  Today they finished up the electrical and Thursday they will start insulating.  Friday and Saturday they will be hanging drywall.  I will be going up tomorrow to install the surround sound wiring.

Finished shingles and windows installed.

Sun came out while we were up in our bedroom doing the electrical walk-through.

Shingles being installed.

Main level living room.

8' slider

Basement living room.

Basement slider.

Water bib and air conditioner hookup.  Air conditioner will hang on the cement wall.

Anneli's Baptism

This past Sunday was both fathers day, my third, as well as the day that we baptized Anneli!  Her God parents are Anne and Zach Graves and Christine Weber.  After the baptism we had brunch at Girvan Grille and then later went to Todd and Shannon's to celebrate fathers day.  It was a great day.  Here are some photos!

Nora, me, Heather, and Anneli with her baptism cake.

On the left is Anne and Zach, Christine is in the middle.

Pastor Wee baptizing Anneli.

Anne, Zach, and Andrew.

Nana and Nora!

Andrew John Graves

Anneli and Grandma.

I love this photo!  This to me represents the essence of father day!