June Happenings

We'll try this again - something happened to the pictures last time. While Mike and jodi were in Europe the boys were here a couple of nights and Talmage decided he needed a club house. With all the scraps of wood around it only took Grandpa a few minutes to create his little place -- complete with a bench and a movable door. (Tanner and McKay have since made it a little bigger!)

Talmage wanted to help Grandpa mow the lawn - and he stayed with it until it was all done. He was quite a helper.

This was our trial to make sure it would fit --this was after the rock/fill was spread. (Now these are out of order - but you get the idea of what's happening) We miss not having a garage at the moment and having to park on the street -- it is coming though!!

Monday 6/18 the concrete arrived. They have been working on this for about a month now -- so we are seeing good progress. The brick was also delivered (notice the pallets) and the brick mason will start this week and the roof should at least have the black paper on it by the week-end. This MAY be a week of noticeable difference. We are re-roofing the whole house so the color is going to change as well.

Another picture of the garage and the new concrete!! That door will be over to the left and will go to the back yard.

This is looking from the family room door out through the new garage. Lots of room!! The far wall will have a little work bench for Dennis - besides his basement room. (Men need their space for 'things')

Now we are looking back into the garage at the new family room door. There is only one step up from the garage to the family room. This is our 'tandem' garage - connected to the new one - and lots of storage space.

Ryan decided to sand and stain the railing of the deck out back as a gift to his dad for Father's Day. It has become a huge job, but is looking very nice. (So - for the time being, the front and the back of our house are torn up -- oh well, it will be so nice to have all done). Talmage even helped a bit when he came for a FHE visit while the rest were at Tanner's ball game.

After the rain!

The new garage! - The front 'fancy' window is in Dennis' little work area - the other one is for ventilation and will be behind the gate in the back yard.

This is a look at the two loads of road base they brought in that is going inside the existing garage and in the new one to bring it up to level so our new driveway will drain the way it should. (They need to bring it up 6-8")

This is the existing garage - better known as the Quad Storage area. The metal sheeting is needed for the fill to go in.

The boys climbed the rock mountains ... they say they are looking for deer on the mountain!!

The work goes on ....

This is the sub floor for the addition to the family room.

The sheeting is up on the room -- that is the new door from the garage into the house.

That is the OLD door into the house -- it will become an 'arch way' into the hall way.

The trusses came ... and after they got them up this far Mother Nature blessed us with much needed rain - we got 1" - so it delayed things a bit.