Beating the weather odds...

Tina's and Zahn's

Weather.com said there was an 80% chance of rain all day on Saturday. Lovely. Nothing makes me dread a long day at Cedars more than rain!!! But amazingly enough, it was pretty much beautiful all day long. It spit on us once for a minute or two, and then a light rain for maybe 5 minutes.

I forgot to blog last week! Whoopsie! :) So a quick update!
Tina's, Robin's, Zahn's, Ashlees, Roberts and Garrett and Amanda's are to the point that they are waiting on some sort of something from a contractor (Roof, siding, electric, plumbing). Nathan's is almost to that point (he just needs the top layer of Tyvek and windows put in). Selina and Jerica's trusses were being rolled out and should have been finished yesterday. Pennoyers were having their flooring system for their second floor put in, Linda's second floor supports will be ready to go this week, and we built exterior walls on Josh and Anna's yesterday. Next weekend I anticipate we'll be rolling trusses on Josh and Anna's, building second floor exteriors on Pennoyers, and doing either flooring system or second floor exteriors on Linda's.

A few pictures from this week:

My step-dad Alan driving the big mover thingee!

Robin's

Electric! (Boogie woogie woogie!)



Looking down into Pennoyers from Anna's, Linda's house past that, and then Selina and Jerica's.



Sheeting an exterior at Josh and Anna's

This week we also voted on cabinets, flooring, and millwork (doors and trim). We are getting frameless cabinets (which are really nice! They were the ones I wanted), flooring from Lowes, and doors and millworks from I don't know where! :) It's the interesting part of bidding on this stuff as a group: It ends up being majority rules. We really wanted a different flooring supplier, only because we really had our hearts set on a certain look of laminate for our living spaces that the other bidders didn't have. We wanted a wide plank look dark floor, and Lowes doesn't have anything similar. We can get a similar color, but just in the normal looking width. Then Ahren starts talking about ripping things out IN MY BRAND NEW HOUSE!!! HELLO!!! I just spent a year of my life building this beautiful brand new house...I DON'T THINK SO. :) We'll continue that discussion at a different time! :) The best part of going through Lowes is that the flooring is a name brand laminate, and one of our neighbors works there and worked hard on getting those bids in. So we know what color and type our cabinets will be (Frameless cherry), our carpet is narrowed down to three colors (palace, lambskin, or civic), and we have our favorite of the laminate selections picked out.

AND THE BIG NEWS FOR THE WEEK.....

OUR LUMBER PACKAGE SHOULD COME THIS WEEK!!!!!! :)

This means it's POSSIBLE that next weekend we'll get to start our home!!! There's a lot to do next week with the houses that are already started, so I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but it's so exciting!!!! We are the last house to be started, which is a whole different kind of exciting! :)

Ahren just sent me a text from Cedars saying he just built Anna and Josh's first interior second floor wall! The progress each week still floors me...it is one of the most rewarding things ever!

Thanks for following us along this journey! Until next week...

HB