Ceiling on the second floor? Check!

I don't know how the day slipped away from me, but some how it did and I wasn't able to get out to take pictures at all until this evening...but I did take pictures! We are slowing down with the number of "big" changes that are happening visually with the house - but the number of "small" changes is starting to increase.

 One of the small changes happening is we now have a ceiling in our office space. 

Tommy had fun crawling out onto the "plant shelf" or whatever that spot above the stairs is supposed to be called. There isn't a window there, so I don't know the technical term. :)

Another angle of the office with all the scaffolding up to create the ceiling.

They set up scaffolding to put the ceiling up in the rest of the great room too. 

 The closet in the girls room has been finished...and we made a decision about it. It's no longer going to be the girls closet. In fact this room is no longer going to be the girls room. Tom convinced me that this room serves us better as a play room and the closet is big enough to use as the homeschool room - WITH the option of shutting and locking the door when school is not in session. So we're moving the girls to what I was going to use as the homeschool room.  

Here's the room the girls will now be staying in. 

   Not much changed in Tommy's room. 

 Then we headed outside where we noticed something we hadn't on the way into the house...We've got Shingles! (for the roof, not the disease!)

 Next week we should be getting the shingles placed on the roof! Hip Hip Hooray!

The Roof is ON!!!

On our way to the house site today we noticed that...

OUR ROOF IS ON!!!

 Here's the back side of the house with the new roof. 

 And the Farm House side. :)

  Inspecting the new roof over Tommy's room. 

 The door and closet in Tommy's room. 

 Tommy has a nice big window in his room. 

 The crazy beams where the roofs join together above the door to Tommy's room.

 Peeking through Tommy's room to the girls room.

Here's a better view of the girls room - with the closet wall starting to be built!

The kids linen closet. I love how big this room turned out to be! I'll be able to store all the bedding/sheets/towels/tp/paper towel rolls...the list goes on and on for what I can do in this closet! I love it! The other exciting news about this closet is that I can have a LAUNDRY CHUTE!!! The kids will have no excuse when it's time to do laundry because they'll be able to throw all dirty clothes down the chute. Yay!

 Hallway to the homeschool room.

 Our Office.

 View of the hallway upstairs, the downstairs guest bath and partial view of the fireplace.

 View of our back porch and screened porch. 

 The new roof over our screened porch. 

 The new roof over our dining room. :)

The great room with the new roof. 

 It has now become a tradition to stomp in the sandbox full of water now. Crazy kids! :) 

That's all folks! Come back tomorrow to see what else is happening! :)

Brr Cold Day

Today was a beautiful, but very cold day. I took a very quick tour of the house each time I went out. I truly believe that if it is going to be below freezing - there should at least be snow! Oh well, I'm still excited about our house. :)

Here's a closeup of the roof over Tommy's room. They are working on the roof over the screened porch now.  

 Here's the shed roof over the dining room and screened porch.

 View of the roof from the kids bathroom.

 View of our new roof over the porch from the back of the house.

 Looking pretty good!

 The girls couldn't wait to stomp through the creek - but it wasn't easy since it was ALL ICED OVER! So they had a fantastic time smashing the ice instead. 

Becky even found a huge chunk of ice that she tried to break, but it was just too thick. It was at least and inch if not two inches thick! Amazing for here in Tennessee.  

I found some beautiful ice crystals on the ground, so I showed them to the girls, who then had the best time crunching over them. :) 

 Our little farm house. :)

 Despite the cold, the guys were able to put on the final plywood sheeting for the front of the house.

 They also started sheeting the shed roof. 

Our house is really taking shape now! 

So cool to see the roof on! 

 View of the roof coming up the stairs. 

 Girls room. There will be a wall up starting at that window on the left and we will be making the second window on the right be a part of the girls closet. 

 Tommy's room with a view of the shed roof. 

Hallway between the rooms upstairs.  

 View of the office window from the girls room. 

 Tommy had fun checking out all the changes. 

 Nikki had fun hiding in the attic in the homeschool room. 

 Dining room. :)

 It's so neat to see the roof over the dining room finally!

 Another view of the roof over the dining room. Not one you'll get to see later in the coming months. :)

 Becky checking out the screened porch while Nikki inspects the dining room.

 Back of the garage with a beautiful sunset. 

 Front of the house.

 Final look of the house before we froze. :)

 Well, the kids weren't frozen enough...they had to try walking on water before going inside for supper. :) That's actually ice they pushed down under the water.