Windows and doors

We got our windows and doors installed today. We don't have the windows in the garage or bonus room yet because they ordered the wrong ones! The doors are white now but we will paint them later. We ended up getting a pretty good deal on them. We saved $2100 on our double front doors alone! Bartons had originally priced us at $2500 for fiberglass doors. We found these steel ones at a little shop here in town for $400. :) That shop is also saving us about $25 per interior door as well. Then we went to Surplus Warehouse and got the back glass door for $120 which saved us about $50 off Barton's price. We also found some solid Bamboo flooring at that same place for $2.80/ft. That's WAY cheaper than we've seen anywhere! We're going tomorrow to get that. We love those deals!

Another great buy!

We found this sink at that same furniture store in Batesville that we bought our other 2 sinks. We purchased it for $50. It retails for $600. The top had been crushed (as you can see on the left side) but the cabinet was pretty much perfect. Just a few minor scratches that we can fill in. We went to a countertop place here and they are going to custom make us a new granite top for it. The granite we chose is called tropical brown and it is beautiful. We spent $340 on the top...so for a grand total of $390 we got a beautiful sink! To have the cabinet place make us a plain ole' regular vanity with plain marble top would have cost us almost $500. So I think we got one heck of deal!

Man's work

Wow! We had an incredibly busy day. We spent the first part of the day shopping for flooring and lighting. Then we headed to the lot around 2:00 this afternoon. Our goal was to really clean it up. It was COVERED with small scrap pieces of wood, nails, shingles, bags, trash, etc. It was to the point where it was difficult to walk. The task was so daunting at first that I didn't know how we could even begin. Yet we did...one piece of wood at a time. We started a burn pile and just kept piling it on. I was really surprised at the sheer amound of wasted wood there was. We worked non-stop until 8:00 this evening when it got too dark to see. I did a day's worth of "man's work"(hauling wood, digging in the dirt, etc.) I have several splinters to show for it. :)Our shingle guys did finish the job today. On Monday we should start the siding process (we are only siding the eaves and underneath side of the porches). Thursday our plumber comes. Here is a pic of our new shingles...they are a little hard to see.

Check this out...

I saw this link on a friend's page and decided to check out this little girls' story. I was so moved and engrossed in it that I sat and read every single blog and have checked it every single day since. It's a hearbreaking story and moved me to sobs...yes, sobs several times. Yet, the family's strength and faith are so amazing. Please check it out and keep this family in your prayers! http://audreycaroline.blogspot.com/

Dried in and shingles

Our house is officially "dried in" and is in the process of getting shingles. We've gotten about half of our shingles completed. Our safe room is almost completed...we still have to put the top on it. It's supposed to rain tomorrow so we probably won't have much more change until this weekend. My goal this weekend is to get the lot cleaned up some. Travis is going to try and finish the safe room.

Hot-tub lovin' girl

Haley LOVES the hot tub. She cannot wait to get in it whenever she's over at Nanna and Pa's house.

more house pics

When we got back into town this morning, we pretty much headed straight over to the lot. The block guys were working on the safe room, the framers were working on the roof, and Travis and I decided to work on cleaning out the inside. The floors were covered with bent nails, sawdust, cigarette butts, sunflower seeds, bottles, etc. So we worked for a few hours sweeping and picking up trash. Then we went driving around to look at brick colors and shingle colors. We had narrowed down our brick colors between just a few and we wanted to see them one more time before we made our final decision. We did decide on both our brick and shingle colors today (I can scratch those off our "to do" list). Then Ashley and Chandler came over to walk through our new house as well! Here are a few updated pics of the new house!

Hot-tubbin'

Once we got in Batesville, we pretty much hopped into the hot tub. My mom got it for my dad for his 50th birthday. It was really cold outside so we really enjoyed it!

House Update

We decided to head to batesville for the weekend to get away from the house stuff as well as the move, etc. We stopped by the lot on our way out of town. The guys haven't been able to work much the last few days because of the rain. They did work a little bit Friday afternoon putting in our stairs. The are going to lay the boards on the roof and our block guys is supposed to complete the safe room. I can't wait to see it on Sunday!

Framing, Day 4

Today was the fourth day of framing. They've gotten up all the exterior and interior walls. They're currently working on the roof trusses and the upstairs bonus room floor. Here is a pic of the front of the house...it's not great because of the sun's glare. There is also one of the back of the house.