Phase 4b and 5b

 The second story framing and sheeting Britton got the idea to attach the sheeting and installation to the boards on the ground ( or second floor floor)so we wouldn't have to hang the sheeting from a ladder on the outside. It worked great, but made the walls super heavy. Call the crew again

 We had a CREW! 8 men and one of my  Young Women! They lifted and slid two heavy walls in to place. They were so awesome to help with our barn raising, 7 brothers for 7 brides was mentioned but no singing or dancing was done

Got both the longer side walls up and done and braced in no time. Thanks Britton for getting everything framed and covered.

The next day we built the outside wall and lifted with half the crew we did before. Thanks Hannah and Cooper for your help. true it hadthe biggest window whole and we left a lot of the corner pieces of the sheeting

The last wall Britton and the kids lifted, Didnt have the over hang piece and again left off a corner pieces of the sheeting. 

It is looking like a house! It is fun to watch all the foot traffic slow down walking past our house to see what we working on next, we will have to have an open house to show all the neighborhood our project.

Phase 6 Decking second story

This is job I felt like I could help with, Britton would lift the ridiculous heavy sheeting up the stairs and glue it then I could come behind and add the screws every 6 and 12 inches across the whole board. It was super fun to see the new square footage really coming together. Elle was my best side kick screwing in screws along with me. Love that girl! Here is the boys checking in on us.

A side note. We always thought dogs were not into stairs, growing up with the a couple of dogs that would never hang out upstairs at my parents house i just assumed all dogs didn't do stairs. Pepper is fearless, she didnt stop at the stairs, she would go all the way to existing house roof and reign queem supreme over the whole neighborhood! We got so many phone calls from concerned neighbors watching her romp across the roof barking at them. I think she did jump once and chased down a runner but after doing it once she learned her lesson and didn't jump again but after the 20th phone call we were ready to get some walls up. Especially after she taught her friend Wrigley her ways.

Phase 8 interior walls skipped some steps

 We misordered the number of floor joists we needed and had to get 2 more to finish for the second story. To get that ordered and delivered was going to take a couple weeks. So in order to not waste a weekend. we decided to order some 2x 4's and do some interior walls in the first floor.

My own closet! The bathroom, a double sink space giant shower! Making final decision on is the wall next to the toilet going to be a full wall? pony wall? Britton' s closet under the stairs is going to be great for storing everything he has.  This is a shot from the bedroom in the existing house when the rain was coming down the stairs in a waterfall.

And my favorite people form Texas came to visit. So we got to hang out with them a little too. the Beards were here for an Asay family reunion

Phase 5 sheeting and Phase 6 floor joists

 

After our lake Powell trip and a couple weekends away from the house we got the floor joists and sheeting on the first story frame attached this weekend. Next step the stairs.

Tooke advantage some extra days around July 4th and knocked out the stairs on the Monday Holiday.

Danielle did her sisterly duty and got handy with the screwdriver attaching the decking to each stair.

I love my family so much! we have received so much labor in love for this project!

Lake Powell 2021

 Heaven on Earth

We loved having the Bingham's' for part of the week. Cooper, Hannah and baby Harvey were crowd favorites and our faithful lake powell family Mom and Dad and the Johns made for another perfect week on the lake. Minus Harvey's emeergency trip to get stitches at urgnet care for a accident with a fan but we was a trooper and played hard for the rest of the trip.

All the adults tried wake surfing for the first time on the Bingham's boat and loved it.

The kids did lots of tubing, swimming and playing. There is nothing better.

super fun sand to dig and play in and the girls loved the new paddle boards

Conway was in charge of the jetski during docking times out on the lake, he collected a few passangers this round.

Wake surfvign took a few attempts but eventually got up and loved every minute of it, okay one minute of it.

100+ degrees we all loved cooling off in the water

Ryker was not convinced until he finally figured out the lifejacket and then he was always ready to swim with the crowd

got a little exploring and cliff jumping in the second to last day. Even found the perfect Ryker size jumping rock

Grandpa and grandma did the kids favorite pirate teasure hunt and everyone helped catch some fish.

The last day and the worst day at the lake we got everything packed up and cleaned up, Lacey and i took the kids to McDonalds for lunch. 6 kids one truck and a jet ski, felt pretty accomplished after that.

Phase 4 framing

 

Concrete laid and lumber delivered spent a Saturday  June5th framing the first floor. Didn't have a working nail gun yet so they framed it all by hand. Dad Westley and Britton with supervisor Wyatt passing out the nails. It worked out since the concrete connections had to be a special galvanized nail, but went and bought a new nail gun the next week.

Three walls done in one day it was super exciting to make it all seem so real.

Could not have done so much in one day with out Westley and Dad we will be owing them both big time at the end of this project.

Sure do love our Construction Manager 😏

Concrete day

Finally concrete pouring day! 5/7/2021

Did the rough plumping, it was such a blessing in our lives that we found a contractor that will let us do a lot of the work ourselves and pull the permits and help with passing the inspections we need. Saving us tons of money and such a miracle as that is not very common for contractors to be so helpful like that.

Got the footings prepped and the rebar all bent and laid in with Dad and Westley' help. Snapped this pick of the kids and Grandpa bending the rebar around the tree limb.

Asked Seth to come for the day to direct the pour. So kind and generous of him to spend 7 hours in the car to help us for 6! We are so grateful, our family is the best.

Also have the best friends too, our minister Jared and friend John came to move the concrete and be our crew for the day along with Dad, Westley, Britton and Seth.

Started pouring concrete at 10:30, me and the kids were at the school but Ryker and Grandma made sure to get lots of footage for us so we didn't miss the awesome concrete trucks in our back yard. and right when they were done it started raining at 2pm it was perfect timing. 

Walking on the slab makes it all seem real, able to imagine what is going to look like and feel like to have all the extra space! So excited!

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