- Concrete here, concrete there, concrete EVERYWHERE! -

One day we left the "house" looking like this...

...and the next day, it was this!  Oh, oh, ohhhhh, it's magic!

We had a fiasco with our framer quitting before he even started [which sent me into a silent panic, because ZOMG we have this giant concrete hole in the ground that is just collecting rain and the winter weather is coming soon and whoooo go' build our shack??!].  It was all just crumbling beneath our feet and seemed disastrous to my pea brain... But fear not!  I forgot for a split second that Brian is a Superman of sorts and he alwayssss has the last laugh! He called the troops together and went right to building out the basement without skipping a beat.  [September 2018]

Loving these cute little basement walls in progress!

So thankful for Uncle Brant and Papa Ron's help, too.

...They're quite the crew if you ask me! :)

Weekdays and weekends home alone with the girls get pretty long pretttttty fast, so we always take lots of visits out to check in on the guys.  It's perfect when Scarlett falls asleep on the drive there and snoozes for a bit in her carseat after we arrive; otherwise, I look like a contortionist of sorts trying to wrangle a fearless toddler and a newly-mobile infant in a construction/disaster zone! Of course, one of Harper's favorite things about visiting the "prop-ur-dee" is using the porta-potty..... :/

When everyone takes a break from building, there's still lots of dirt raking to be done...

...and while Daddy works, we eat!

Work hard, party hard!

And nowwwwww, on to subfloor!  And the search for a framer continues....... :/