Garage and cutting cement

We ran into a snag because our access road turned to soup :(  The lumbar showed up on time but they couldn't get in so it all went back.  I could have cried.  Darin tried to make it better by telling me we have a moat now for our castle.  So not funny at the time.

View to east (the dry spot at the end is our new and 3rd access road).

Look at these ruts! (that was rut not runt) And it was VERY soft.

Our "Moat"
You can see our first access road just behind the kids.

There was a crew out here this day digging the pilings for the garage, so some good news atleast.  After some discussions Corey's guys put in our 3rd access road the next morning but we are behind again.

Jaimie and I (and Elizabeth who was so much help) went to look at cabinets on Wednesday.  I could spend a lot of money.  While we were there Corey stopped by to bring the plans.  Jaimie was talking to him about deleting the wall that formed the hallway as you come down the stairs from the garage.  Corey didn't know there was a door for the suite from the garage!!  He even says it is clearly on the plans.  How does the contractor, the guy who staked it out and the cement guys all miss that??  Well at least it was caught now.  And they have now cut the cement out to make the door work. 

Basement walls before they back filled.

Exciting times!

Corey needed our siding choices by this weekend, so on Friday Darin and I went and picked out shingles, siding, sofit/facia, and stone (sorry Jaimie!!).  I figured we needed to pick it all at once instead of trying to match stuff up later.  We wanted a dark siding but couldn't justify the price doubling and Darin was worried about fading, so we went with a 'Pebble' coloured siding wih Black trim and stone.  I think it will look sharp.
After shopping we made a run out to the land.  And look what we found:

Lumbar...

Trusses..

and walls!!

View of Jaimie and Zack's bedrooms (walkout door on right).

From left: living room window, bathroom window (wrong size!), and part of master bedroom window.  2 taller windows will be in the kitchen.  Darin was standing where playroom will be.

Zack's room and walkout. You can see where the stairs from the patio will be.

This will become Jaimie's kitchen in the front with the utility room and playroom behind.



Door out to walkout patio area.

It is amazing to finally see something concrete.  I stii think it looks small though!

Possesion Changes

Well we knew it was coming but Corey wants us to change our pession date for the new house.  He originally said we had to move it to August 10th but has agreeed to aim for the 1st instead.  No more speed bumps!  3 adults, 4 kids, 2 dogs, 1 cat and 3 snakes will not be fun in our little camper.

Current house

Our Saskatoon house is offically sold! Yeah!!  Posession isn't until August 2nd which is great for us.

Pouring the basement

So I am a bit behind here.  The footings are in, the basement was framed out and now the concrete has been poured!  I have some pictures of the concrete being poured.  The boys were very disappointed that they couldn't be there to watch.



view of south west corner



cool truck

the garage will go up where the truck is sitting (north east corner)

Jaimie & Zack's patio will be in this corner- the jut out will be the steps

west wall

truck unpacking its arm. Too bad Jeremy wasn't here to see this!

Ready, set, pour!

Collection area on back of the cool truck

truck #2 (of 5?)

The basement was supposed to be back filled today and Monday they start framing. Yeah!!