Time for an update on life at those crazy Hayes. I began to realize I was only posting on the new house updates and not really the rest of our family's going-on's. Since these posts are far a few in between I will be updating more on our personal stuff outside of the build (but since a lot of our life revolves around that at the moment it will all kind of mesh together). If you follow me on Instagram (khayes_83) I usually post a few things on my story when we visit the house site among our other daily shenangins.
So first the Family Update:
Pretty much anyone reading this knows me and is aware of my (Step) Mother In-Law's, Amy, current battle with Hodgkin Lymphoma. Being Amara and Lily's teacher she has had to put schooling them on hold to focus on getting healthy. We have registered them for a private school next year, but they are home for now. Amara is getting continued tutoring for her dyslexia. I'm very thankful that the weather has started turning and I'm able to start throwing them outside again. The house feels immensely bigger when our yard is available. :)
As I mentioned before, now that there is actual work being done we visit the build site daily, so it's become a ritual of sorts. The kids spent most of February and March climbing mountains of mud and icing themselves and all things surrounding them with it (the cars, the house, their parents...😜). Let's just say our cars are now in desperate need of detailing and the porch needs some pressure washing. I'm not even sure if the boots will survive for next year. (Did I already mention how glad I am the sun is back?)
We've also started building our collection of kayaks and paddle boards to stock our lake with and of course I still need to get my giant floating island that I've always wanted to buy. 😏
Everett turned 2 on May 15th and I'm determined to have him potty trained before we move. (Which at this point is looking October-ish?) I'm feeling bittersweet that my baby days are over! 😭 We celebrated in true Everett style with a Peppa Pig themed birthday party. Complete with a "muddy puddle" (a shared favorite of Peppa and Everett). I don't have pictures from that yet...(*hint hint,* Pop.)
Okay house update time: The foundation was excavated and the foundation poured. You guys are going to laugh once you see the video below, but to be honest we were kind of shocked at how small it looked at first. You know how in your minds eye you envision things so strongly and then when you see things in real life it can take you aback? Well, we were relieved to find out that is a normal reaction when home owners see their foundation poured. Thank goodness we have a professional realty photographer in the family! My brother, George, brought his drone out one Sunday afternoon between rain showers and gave us a birds eye view. Like I said you're going to laugh that we were afraid it was too small! 😄
After that was completed the framing started. This is the stage we have been told where things start getting fun because you see huge changes in a short amount of time and we were not disappointed! These guys move fast!
We met the foreman, Ken, and we were pleasantly surprised to find our that like our contractor and architect he also works with the Street of Dreams! This is especially exciting for me because I have grown up going to the Street of Dreams and never in my wildest dreams ever thought I would be getting to live in a SOD home.
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| We visit the site almost every day. These rods sticking out every where were the stuff of a mother's nightmare. |
Starting on the main level floor.
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| My mother taking in the view from our picture window. |
Trusses installed. This is when it started to actually look like a house to me.
| The stairway desgin was something the architect had to convince us of. If was really hard to envision, but it really does look wonderful! |
View of the lake and the back of our house,
This is what our home looks like currently:
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A little drama ensued with the arch design of the front entry:
(In case you have not figured this out these videos are from my daily stories on Instagram.)
After 6 weeks the framing should be completed by the middle of next week. Then our roofing will be installed. I plan to do a walk through tour for the blog soon!
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