Ryan has been working on the roof (as well as his regular job) for the past week and it is finally just about there. He is picking up the felt paper and ordering the shingles as I sit here and type! I will be glad to have a leak proof roof over our head again. Here are a few pictures of the last week.
Injury #2 happened as they were working on this side of the roof. Ryan's brother, Dale caught his leg on one of the metal plates on the trusses and ended up with stitches. And according to our niece Hallie - "that is going to cost him a butt load of money!" We laughed at that!

The back of the house. I am so excited for the deck. I think I will spend a lot of time there! I just need a rocking chair to put up there!

What our house looks like as of right now. I love the shape of the roof and am excited to get the shingles on there!

The next step in the process is gutting the upstairs. This past week I have just about moved everything out of the upstairs. We are sleeping in one bedroom downstairs and the girls are in the other. I have sold my dishwasher and stove and they will both be picked up on Friday, and I also sold my kitchen cabinets and they will be picked up on Saturday morning. So as of Saturday I no longer have a kitchen. I have stocked up on paper goods and cereal and will have to get creative with our grill. Ryan says about 1 1/2 months - but I am prepping myself for about 2 months before we are up and running again. We have also been without a air conditioner which I hate - I am one who never turns my air conditioner off and I love to be able to walk into my house and be cold - so needless to say it has been a little warm around here the last little bit. But we should be able to hook the air conditioner back up soon. One exciting note - I bought myself a new serger/sewing machine with the money from the cabinets and appliances - Ryan was going to just throw them all in the dumpster so I figured I would buy something fun with them!

Trusses and Rain...

I woke up this morning about 5;30 a.m. because the wind was blowing quite hard and looked out my window to see dark clouds to the west... normally I would have just rolled over and gone back to sleep, but when all I have is a layer of sheetrock between me and the great outdoors, I started to panic just a little. The clouds continued to get closer, until about 8:15 when it started to rain - hard - but luckily it only lasted for a few minutes and the inside of my house was spared... the crane arrived soon and the guys got to work.

This is the first truss going up

The next group of trusses going up.

At that point I took off and went to the Dinosaur Park with my sisters and had a great time!

And returned just in time to see the last few trusses go on. It is starting to come together and it looks great!

One funny comment from today, Ian, my 6 year old nephew was watching Ryan quite a bit today and following him around a little and after awhile told Ryan, "You have an awesome job, I'm going to call you my working uncle." We love having Ian in town, he is always making us laugh!

We had a ton of help come this morning and by noon we had...

a finished product....or I guess we should say an unfinished product.
I was pretty excited that we had no broken windows and only one little tiny hole in my ceiling inside. Now to get a roof back on.....

It Started...

This is our house as of 5:15 on Friday evening....

Ryan and Alan decided to get a start on the roof - Ryan's leg fell through some of the old boards on the roof - our first ingury.

This was the roof after about an hour of work. Insulation was flying and to be honest with you it makes me a little nervous. We will see what today brings. There is quite the crew of family coming and I am sure it won't take them long to get it all off. One of my friends asked if we were still living here and the answer is yes! We are trying to stick it out as long as possible. So far the inside hasn't changed to much so that is when it will get hard to live in I am sure!

An update on the house.... before we left for SC Ryan got the garage floor poured. I need to flip this picture - but thought Ryan was looking pretty good in his rubber boots and shorts!

Finishing up the garage floor!

What will be our back deck and covered patio underneath.

What the view will be out my kitchen window(minus the construction debris) - I love it!

And now what the view out my front door is - our trusses for the roof were dropped on the front yard this morning. Ryan is planning on taking the roof off our house this weekend as long as the weather cooperates and hopefully all of these will go back on quickly without any rain inbetween! Wish us luck!!

Charleston, South Carolina

We always love the last day of school around here and this year we were even more excited because we left the next morning at 6 a.m. for Charleston, South Carolina. A lot of Ryan's family went and we had a great time. The last time we went we had a 1 year old and a 2 year old so this time the traveling was so easy! We took a ton of pictures but here are a few of the highlights. Here are the three girls crabbing. Ryan's cousin, Raymond, took Morgan the last time we were there and that was her favorite thing about the trip. This time all three girls were able to catch a crab. You throw raw chicken out into the tide pools and grab the crab with a net when you feel them tugging. As we were walking to the crabbing spot the girls found full sand dollars along the beach - they were pretty excited about that as well.
All of us in front of the pineapple fountain in the Waterfront Park in downtown. This day we walked around downtown, went to the Market, walked along the Battery, saw Rainbow Row, and played in the water fountain for a few hours!

Went to Patriots Point and toured the aircraft carrier and a submarine. I would not handle working on a submarine.... We also went to Fort Moultrie from the Revolutionary War and a lighthouse.

This is a picture of Ryan at Charles Towne Landing (were the very first settlers came). It was a beautiful place, but had these signs all over. I thought they were a joke at first ...Ryan assured they were not a joke. Luckily we never met an alligator, just lots of turtles. We also went to the Aquarium (I forgot my camera that day). It was fun - we always love aquariums.

The rest of the week was spent on the beach. Ryan's mom got a condo and beach house for all of us to stay in. We had such a great time and love the ocean. The girls had a great time playing in the sand and the water, walking out onto the pier, and shopping on Folly Beach. We were sad to come home. Maddie's Birthday was yesterday and we were traveling all day so I had one present for her to open before we left (the outfit and crown) that she got to wear all day as we were in airports and airplanes. It was fun because she got so much attention! She was really, really shy, but kept the crown on so we figure she liked it! We have a hard time believing that she is five!!