This week has been cold and windy. It started raining early this morning, but there has been work done this week.
The contrator finished framing the outside of our master bedroom/bathroom. The first picture is the bathroom. There will be a garden tub under the windows. The second picture is the bay window in our bedroom. What a view it will be. Robert said that when we get our room finished, complete with fireplace, we will never want to leave our bedroom.



This picture is our front porch. We are going to use a wood stain on it when we get all of our siding ect done.

We are using a wood plank stamp for the front and back porches.
They also did our basement steps going down from the garage.

What a week!

Monday was a rainy, cloudy day, but we had some lumber delivered and Mr Masterson dug our septic tank hole. We also had a new addition to our heard. (I know the grandkids will love this addition)


Tuesday the contractors started setting the floor studs up. Things started moving along fast.


Wednesday we got our septic tank in. The cement people came and sured up our front and back porch. And more work done on the floor.


The guy in this picture is Mr Masterson's son, Matt. He was cool.


This brings us to Thursday! What a fun day! Robert had a great time this day too, but he was terribly sore from a different kind of work.



Robert took time from his milking (duh) and helped set out lumber for the walls and helped stand the walls. It was so awesome to watch the walls go up. When they stood this wall up the told me to come and look out my kitchen window. Here is the view.
Here they are stand the front of the house, actually it is the dining room and doorway and front bedroom.




This has been a good week for our new home.

It doesn't seem like they are getting anything done on our house until you look back where they began. If you look at it weekly instead of day to day, they are getting things done, despite the challenging weather; wind, rain, snow; and more wind. Here are this weeks pics.



It has been exciting to see the changes at the end of the week. Our basement is beginning to looking like a basement. The second picture is our cold room, where we can store potatoes,carrots, onions and other foods for storage. The third picture is the view from our back porch and our bedroom. It is breath taking!

So Excited!

Well I am already two weeks behind. Monday April 19th, the concrete men poured our basement walls. It was very awesome to watch, it took 6 cement trucks.



As soon as they started pouring cement, Robert came in the barn to get me so I could watch them and take pictures.


I think it is hard for me to have to go to the barn everyday, twice a day and watch for something to be done.
On Tuesday the concrete men started taking the forms away from the new walls of our house. It took them most of the week. We took the kids, who came home for Easter to see the progress on the house. They seemed excited too!
On Friday April 29th, the contrators came and put boards on the top of the cement. So we are waiting to backfill around the house and put the window wells in, for Blue stakes to come and the electriction to come and put power to the house.
We took a break from milking on Wednesday, to go to Cedar City to get a bid on our doors and windows from Jones Paint and Glass. That was so much fun.

Today is Monday May 2nd, Robert is so excited, he is planning on helping backfill around the house and put the window wells in.




Can't wait to see what gets done tomorrow!

Our New Home

Finally we are beginning to see a little progress on our home. My last blog mentioned our well being drilled. That was exciting. The contractor and Robert marked out the plot for our basement and marked it with pink paint. Next Mr Masterson came with his backhoe and dug our basement.

The weather was not cooperating with us and there came snow, rain and cold windy weather. Blah! On March 19th, we were in Provo for my mom's 80th birthday party, Ster, our plumber called about 4 times asking questions about the house so he could have his crew work on the house on Monday!!!

So Monday March 21st the underground plumbing was done and ready for inspection.


Then we had more weather. Tuesday or Wednesday the concrete men came and put a few boards around the hole (basement) for the foundation.

But this week things started happening Tuesday the concrete crew came and put more footing boards up, leveled the ground in the basement and were ready for inspection on Wednesday.

Today is March 31st and the footings for the foundation and the basement floor was poured. Robert and I are so excited. I kept going out and taking pics. What a great day!


As you can tell some of my pics are out of order, I am just learning. Next time I will do better.

Our new home

We have been working on getting our home started. Robert keeps saying, "We will start on the house as soon as crops are in." Then he gets a chance to get more feed, so we wait.
The well drillers finished drilling our well Friday Nov 5th. They told Robert they were surprised at how good our water was, cold and clear. We are excited about that, now we need to dig waterlines into the barn and corrals. We did get a letter from the Division of Water Resources that our application had been protested. We need to do a few things then hopefully we can use our well soon.
Our contractor gave us a tote full of floor plans, none of which we liked. He had us go to his son, to have him draw up some plans for us. He sent us an email with all the things we wanted in our home. We loved it!! We will have to see if we want to make any changes.
So life has been pretty good for us. This has been a very busy time at the barn, we now have 21 calves in the hutches. We are milking 56 cows with I think around 20 dry cows ready to calf. I have a hard time remembering how many cows that we have, cause all I do at the barn is milk. Robert asked me the other day how many cows we are milking, I told him I wasn't sure, I just milk until they quit coming in.

Getting in shape!

After workingout at the gym for the last three days---all I can say is Aggh! I have felt muscles that I forgot that I had. I am excited to see results, just wish it wouldn't take so long. Ruby and I signed up to go to the gym, her dr said she needed to lose weight and my dr (me) said I needed to too.(Ruby is Rick and Tara's foster daughter) Ruby and I are planning on hitting the gym 3 days a week...well that is our plan.