Construction Progress

Things seem to be going fast on the new house construction. Framing up, windows in, roof decking next and a weather cover.  We will see it again in October.  Thanks to sister Diane for sending lots of pics.

 House site after cactus scraped off

Forms set, sand dumped in held in place by sandbags. Concrete will be poured on top and in trough between sandbags and forms. Forms about 4' high in some places, overall foundation height will be about 4 ft above ground in some places, like on the front porch.

Sand filled inside forms, various pipes/conduit sticking up.

 Foundation tension cables run straight both length and width of foundation in trenches, loose cables are for water, other conduits are for electrical and drainage. Black moisture barrier in place over entire slab.

Watching the concrete poured. Very exciting.

Back to house site that evening, walking around on top of our foundation, this is REAL now!

Framing started!

Lots of framing! We saw it at this stage a few weeks ago. Starting to look like our house!

Trip to McKinney

I made a quick trip to McKinney to see Elizabeth, now 4 weeks old, and Taylor and John, and of course Jason and Ashley.
These are for the great-grands.

JanMa and Elizabeth

 

 Picking up John from school.

 John doing homework

 Ashley wearing Elizabeth on her front.  Ashley can cook, read mags, do laundry, clean up the house and more with this rig, and Elizabeth loves it.  She is a quiet baby and even her cries are soft and muted.

Taylor doesn't know the word muted, even as a baby her cries were lusty and shrieking, especially wen JanMa tried to pick her up or hold her.  But finally I won her over, and she wants me to come spend 100 nights at their house.

 

Here are Jake and Claire in their latest activities, Jake in TaeKwonDo and Claire in gymnastics.