Lots of progress

Here is our weekend update for the Smith home on Tahlequah Street. Pictures Galore!

Here is our front wall going up.

The view from inside.

Our rooms are getting framed!

I am standing on the loft, that's our cute little diamond window. If you are tall enough to look out the window, you can see all the way to the library.

Justin's turn!

I am sitting at the top of the stairs leading to the loft. This is probably the only time I'll ever see the sky looking up from the stairs.

You can see the house now with walls and they are framing the roof getting ready for the decking. The decking is the boards they put on top of the roof.

Here are the steps I was sitting on earlier, leading up to the loft. We like the "landing" area
before the bottom step.

This picture was taken of the bedroom in the loft (nice view out the window!) You can see Donnie working on the zip board. We learned that zip board is really strong board put on the side of the house meant to withstand 100 mile per hour winds. We are learning a lot during this process. It's really cool!

This is the east side view of our house. Those little slats on the roof are where Donnie was standing to put up the decking on the roof. Yikes! You can also see the dormer on this side of the house.

The west side of the house with no decking on the roof.

This is called a pony wall, an extra space for storage in our loft area. It will have a little baby door. It will also be a good hiding spot for kids.

Again, the west side of the house but with decking. It really looks like a house now!

The plan for next week: our roof, plumbing, and Justin will be pre-washing the windows that will go in our house. Soon our house will be completely enclosed!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Showers of Halloween Anniversaries in a House

I wanted to post some Halloween pictures, but those somehow got deleted from my camera before I had a chance to post them. They are on my other computer (that's not hooked up to the internet). We had a fun Halloween. Justin, Amy, Vu, Brian and Jenny all met up at Common Grounds for some yummy food and hot chocolate. There were some scantily dressed people there and some very *fun* costumes. Justin and I were pirates and Jenny was a cute lil' polar bear. Amy and Vu dressed as a Medieval knight and princess. Brian's band performed a Tom Petty cover show all dressed as Tom Petty. My parents came to watch and we all enjoyed a very in depth makeout session right in front of our table. I mean really "going at it".

We had a great weekend with Carrie and Josh being here. I hope Carrie is less stressed about her wedding than when she came. It was great to get everyone together, and I'm really happy that we had such a fun shower. After the shower some of us went to stand on top of our newly built 1st floor. Here are some pictures to prove it.

Here's our garage/basement getting framed.

Here's our deck getting built on our 1st floor.

Here's our 1st floor getting placed.

Here I am standing on our 1st floor.

Here is our first floor starting to get framed. You can see the stoop off the back, that will have stairs coming down from it eventually.

Here are the stairs leading up to the 1st floor from the garage/basement.

We also celebrated our 2 year anniversary last week (Nov. 5). We picked up a decadent ice cream cake from Coldstone. Delicious! We also went out to Mary Maestries for an elegant meal the weekend before. At least it would have been elegant, had the Razorback game not just dismissed and all the people flooded the restaurant drunk and loud and excited about the win. Otherwise, it was very romantic! To further celebrate our anniversary, we are going to see on of our favorites, Jeremy Enigk, in concert in Lawrence, KS the day before Thanksgiving. I am very excited about it, and we might get to sneak in some KC shopping as well. Can't wait!

Before going on our romantic evening out:

I hope everyone is have a wonderful week so far. Tonight is such a dreary, cold Monday evening.