I can't believe that I have been blogging about the house for a month already. Time is flying by between working on the house, and making plans for the next steps. Unfortunatly, even while time is flying, housebuilding can sometimes be a two step forward, one step back process. So while Keith made a great deal of progress digging the other footers last weekend, the 13+ inches of rain this week destroyed that work before we could get them finished this weekend. So he had to start all over again on Friday. He finished digging them today with the help of Bob and Stuart (who we also have to thank for cutting a channel through a 4 ft rock with a 5lb hammer to lay the footer). We hope that they will be okay with any rain we might be getting tonight and tomorrow before they are inspected on Tuesday. Please keep your fingers, toes and eyes crossed for us on that one. If that goes well, the additional footers will be poured this week as well as getting the drain tile down, waterproofing the foundation with the tar, and something else that I am forgetting right now, but that we need to have inspected before the foundation slab is poured. Lucky for me, my husband knows what needs to be done and he won't forget :)
In addition to house stuff this weekend, Keith and I took Julia to a wedding in VA on Saturday. It was in the middle of the afternoon, and we figured that no nap+ Catholic wedding would be a very bad combo for Andrew. So he got to stay and get spoiled by Grandma Lorriane and Grandpa Bob. He had a blast playing with them, and we enjoyed ourselves as well. Julia was mezmerized by the fancy dresses, the lights on the dancefloor, and the chocolate strawberries. In the slideshow this week are a couple pictures from the wedding.
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