Tuesday, September 23, 2008

House Addition

As many of you have already heard- we are in the process of a MAJOR house addition/ renovation. We are pushing back the first floor of our house to expand the kitchen, add a breakfast room, add a mudroom and expand the family room. In addition to these upgrades, we are also adding basement since we were required to pour a crawl space anyway. So, we will eventually gain a guest bedroom, full bath and 2 storage rooms in the basement as well! YIPPEE! So far, we have had the concrete company dig out the whole basement and they have made concrete walls as well. We are still waiting for the floor to be poured which will be this week. Then- the real construction can start! We are going to be broke- but it will be so worth it to have a larger home for our family of 5. It will be set up so nice for all of us and will be perfect for entertaining. Too bad it won't be done in time for the annual halloween party! Our kitchen cabinets are being hand made from the Amish and then a guy in the Quad Cities who did Dick and Mary's new kitchen. I can't wait to see the finished product! We ordered our new Granite counter tops and and have bought our new flooring. I am so nervous about picking paint colors because I want it to be just perfect! I guess I have awhile before I get to that point!
As you can see- Carson and Gavin are loving our dirt mountain in the entire backyard! They have been climbing and sliding it down it for a couple weeks now!

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