We Have Walls!

We went out to see the progress on our house yesterday evening. Most of the first floor is framed and Eli's room and the bathroom are framed on the second floor. So far, this whole house business hasn't seemed very real to me...now, it really seems real! We were able to walk around all the rooms (and through some walls, which Eli found very cool) and it finally felt like this thing was actually going to happen. I had been out there last week to see the guest room framed, but it's completely different when it's most of the house! I was blown away by my excitement...and the wind. Seriously, the wind is ALWAYS blowing out there...I'm a little surprised the houses on that prairie haven't just blown away.

This is Phoebe posing in the wall between the guest bath and the guest closet. She was having a ball walking around out there, but the wind literally almost blew that poor girl away. Twenty and a half pounds is nothing to a West Texas wind!





I'm not particularly sure why Eli has his bike helmet on...maybe he was afraid of falling debris. He is also standing between the wall of the guest closet and bedroom.


Eli took this picture of Brad and I in front of the "fireplace." He looked through the camera and said, "Say, New House!" It's a pretty bad picture of the two of us, but did prove that I was really there. I have no idea what those yellow things are in my hand. Eli made a "collection" of them for the framing crew. I'm sure they were appreciated.


Eli's room.


This is Brad climbing up to the second story. They have not framed the stairs, yet, and they took their ladders with them so the only way to get up there was to climb. I was certain that these might be the last pictures of Brad, but he made it and in the next picture he is standing in the upstairs bathroom.




Hopefully, they will frame the stairs today and then I can go into the second story as well this weekend!