Holy Cow!!!

When they decide to work, they really work!


Tuesday - They delivered the forms for the basement walls, not alot to look at but why not?!
We thought it would take at least a day to set the forms, then a day to fill the forms, then a few days to dry in the forms.


It didn't go that way.....






Wednesday - Forms are up and filled!!!













Thursday - Forms are removed and gone, sealer is sprayed on outside of basement and insulation is installed on outside of basement walls.
(This picture is Drake looking from the outside through to our basement. Window well is already attached and ready to go.

Our builder still thinks that we will have our October 30th closing date. I was worried, but the way they have been working this week, I can see it happening.

Jessica's in rock heaven

For those that don't know Jessica very well, she loves any and all rocks. This building a house thing - she is loving because she gets to pick out a new rock everyday. I'm letting her collect one per day and put in a box for when we move, she can put them outfront and tell people what they are and where she got them. She looks all over the lot, picks up at least 5, even tries to get Nicole to pick one to take home. (Nicole always declines though) She looks in the dirt for rocks, she looks in the rocks they put in the driveway, and today.....she looked all over because they filled the footers in with peagravel which all she sees is rocks. That poor girl, thought she was going to have a heart attack when she was looking at all her choices.

So the update on the house is they have filled in the footers with peagravel. This is in the basement and in the garage. I took pictures, but you can't see much except for the girls. Drake and I are having a debate on what will happen next and what the plumbing in the floor will look like. I'm not good with depth perception so he's trying to explain there will be about 6 inches of concrete for the plumbing in the basement, and all I see is the top of the sump pump is all ready even with the pea gravel how can it be that different? So now we'll wait and see. If that's the biggest disagreement we have then I think we are pretty lucky.

Well, hopefully we'll see you tomorrow with more updates.

It happened.....

On the way to pick the girls up after school, I drive by the lot to check on things. (This will be a Monday - Friday occurance) So last Thursday they had staked 4 corners on the lot. Confused us since they were not the corners of the house though.













Then Monday I drove by and there was a excavator on the land. That seems exciting to me!!!



Tuesday there is a dirt Basement!!! We had the girls run some energy out in the basement while we were there.















And today they poured footers!!!!!






I'm so excited they have gotten going and now hopefully they will rock and roll along the next steps too. I was really starting to worry about our October 30 closing tentative date, but I wonder if they can get us in. Drake spoke (in what little English the guys could understand) to the guys that put in the footers and they said they would be back on Monday to pour the walls. (now that's if Drake understood what they were saying too)

Klondike Started school today

Jessica started kindergarden today!!! I can not believe it. She's gone from new born to school in a blink of an eye. Don't even get me started on Nicole! She started 5th grade today. It's unbelievable.

Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork!

No new house news yet. We've turned in our color selections, choices for designs. We are waiting on building permits now. It's been two weeks now, I wonder how much longer it will take. Our closing date is supposed to be October 30, wonder if we will make it still.

Girl Scout Camp Started Sunday

Nicole will be gone from Sunday to Friday for Girl Scout Camp, can you believe that I'm missing her already? We got there, she met her friend and started ignoring us, so we left :( My little girl is really growing up. I've sent her an email message that she'll get when she wakes up, just to tell her that we miss her. Jessica seems to be enjoying the one on one time, alright, she's getting almost everything she asks for since the little con has figured out all she has to do is say how much she misses sissy!!! (ARGH!!!!! - how did she learn to con me so early!)

Well, time to go to bed. I hope to update more about the house tomorrow. I've tried loading the images of the house plans multiple times, but it always gives me errors, so I might just have to wait until they break ground and show you the lay out as we go. I do have some pictures of the empty lot that I plan to load. I'll work on that tomorrow so it will keep my mind off of Nicole and if she is doing alright.

91st Davis Family Reunion

The weather was perfect (Sunny 83 degrees, slight breeze and plenty of shade) for my family reunion, it was in Noblesville, IN at the White River Park which has all kinds of things to do for all ages. Some of the kids were disappointed that the pool was closed due to a swim meet this year, but they did go on a real train ride. (Thank you Aunt Judy for taking all those kids by yourself! I had no idea it would be that long of an adventure!) Why is it that there was almost a full table of desserts instead of real food? We ate, converserved, looked at family trees, voted the same officers again next year (Great job Joel and Carol, it's so good that siblings can work well together :) ) I'll upload some pictures as soon as Drake let's me touch his camera, I forgot mine in the car that day. Shelly, you were missed! Earl and I had to start new rumors this year since you weren't there. Let's see how long it takes you to read this! Bwahhhahhaha!!!!