Boy...30 hours a week is a whole additional full time job! Ahren and I were out there for a cumulative 17 hours on Saturday, and then I was out for another 4 hours on Sunday morning. I had to leave because Aubrey's 8th birthday was today, and we had a very important pool party/luau to attend! The childcare definately makes it more challenging, but it's truly tough for everyone. We have someone who works six days a week, people who work funny shifts that span the entire days (like 10 to 7), couples who have to do 20 hours themselves, but one half of the couple is injured/in school/working, etc. We have been SO Blessed in that it's been possible for us to find all day childcare for the kids on Saturdays. This allows us both to go out for 8-10 hours, and then just worry about our other 10 volunteer hours, which if they aren't volunteered we have to do ourselves. I have some amazing, caring, AWESOME neighbors, and they had all their hours all covered, so they gave their and their volunteers time towards our required hours! YAY FOR AWESOME NEIGHBORS! :) So this week, we are all covered (and caught up from last week), and I will breathe easier...for five more days! :)
As far as the technical house stuff, it's going to be VERY boring reading VERY quickly! :) We pretty much do the same thing everyday (which is good, because we have 12 houses to build!) In exciting news, Tina's house got TRUSSES! I mean, you can walk through her house, tell which rooms are which, and it has a ROOF! (Well, it looks like a roof with no actual roof stuff). I pulled into the build site Saturday and Ross was doing the funny "Trying to keep my balance" arm swing. I was none too pleased to realize my husband was in the trusses group (but luckily never saw him on the roof!) Here are some pics:
I framed Nathan's house with Anna, Josh, Selina and Nathan. (I'm thinking I'm forgetting someone, but if I am I'm sorry!) Then after lunch Robert and his brother Shawn and Julie came over and helped us. Sunday morning I did more framing, and the super sweet Brandy came out to help! We saw a deer in the build site, and then put up the tallest wall EVER! Seriously. Look:
It is a bottom floor wall that goes TALL because the stairs go up there! :) We also got to pick out our doors...Ahren and I aren't totally on the same page. We'll see how that goes. And we got the first copy of receipts...it's seriously two inches thick!
As far as the Ben-Judah homestead, Julie (another awesome neighbor) sent me a facebook message Friday to tell me we had slab insulation and rebar, so we were ready for slab to be poured! YAY! :) I didn't get a picture, but you've seen others...it's all the same!
So that's all for this week!
Your Happy Homebuilder,
Heather
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