The house has a SHAPE!

This is a side view of the front of the house...the front porch!


















The back of the house.

















The front of the house from the north-west corner.















Front of the house and garage from the north-east corner.



This is getting REALLY exciting! The house has a SHAPE! The front middle section of the house roof will have two dormer windows on it. Totally just for looks! A ranch-style house needs dormers, I think!

December 6,2010

The house has been progressing quite nicely the last week or so. The walls are almost all up on the house. It is starting to look a little bit bigger....when it was just the basement, it looked really small. Now I picture where all my cabinets will be and it seems to be a lot of cabinets. But that will be sooo nice!

It still seems unreal that this is our house! we had been dreaming of building for so many years and now its really happening!

November 24,2010

The floor joists were put onto our basement today.

The first picture is my future scrapbooking room in the basement. The second picture is my future kitchen on the main floor.

November 15, 2010

The house is slowing getting closer to ready for the construction crew to come and build. Just not quite sure if this is an indoor swimming pool? It was a bit of a problem getting the sump hole dug because the water kept filling the hole before we got a few shovels full of dirt out. That was some tough digging.

The garage floor is done too. It will sure feel good to have an attached garage on the house. To not have to walk outside to unload groceries will be a new thing for me. But I am sure looking forward to it.

The New House!

Well, I guess it's not a new HOUSE yet, but it is the beginning of it.

The basement was dug on October 25th, 2010. I had to drive past on my way to work that morning just to see if they were working there already. My stomach did a little flip just to think that this was really happening...this is really our basement that was being dug.

These pictures are all not in the right order, but I'm sure you can figure out which way they go.

The move to Chris and Joel's basement happened quite smoothly, other than that it was an AWFUL lot of work. But I guess after living in the same house for just over 25 years, what can we expect?



We are all settled in now and waiting for the house to be roughed up, which is supposed to start happening at the beginning of next week, MAYBE at the end of this week. I can hardly wait to see the actual house taking shape.

I'll try to keep posting pictures for those of you that are interested in the progress.

An exciting day

I got to meet Alan Jackson this past Saturday at one of his concerts! I was so nervous and excited to finally get to meet my favorite singer of all time. It still hardly seems real, I'm just glad that I have a picture of us together as proof that it happened.

I started drawing this picture of him and his wife a few years ago and finally finished drawing it a few days before the concert.

We had to drive 6 hours to the concert but it sure was worth it. He put on a great concert again. The opening act was George Canyon, who was also good, but I didn't notice much of his part. It was before I got to meet AJ and my mind was on that.

Busy day

Wow, it's been a busy day for me. Lots of baking, a wedding reception and cooking soup. I think I have almost all my Christmas baking done, although I will probably think of something else that I really want to make. I don't know who will eat everything, but I'm sure there'll be takers. I have made a goody tray for friends from Winnipegfor many years so I'll do that again this year. These are a few of the things that I made today. White Chocolate Bark, Oreo cookies, Peppermint meltaways and Monster cookies. I also made Coconut Bars but haven't dipped them in chocolate yet.

My shopping is as good as done!!!! And I feel great about that! The malls and stores these days drive me crazy. I even have all the stocking stuffers done. Just a few more groceries a day or so before Christmas and I'm good.

Hmmmm, what to have for CHristmas dinner? I bought a Butterball turkey so that's one thing. Mashed potatoes, stuffing and another kind of meat???? I'm leaning towards meatballs. I have to work Christmas eve till 4:00 and then the Christmas program in the evening, so that doesn't give me a lot of time to get anything ready. What kind of dessert is good? Maybe a trifle? I will have to think about this.