The Brittons

Front view Front View Back View This corner will be the kitchen This will be the living room Owen in his room Gracie in her closet...do you think it's big enough? There has been a lot of progress in the past couple days. It looks like the roof and sides are sheeted and maybe ready for shingles. Some of the windows have been put in already and exterior doors are there, but not installed yet. I was so excited when we went out there today to see everything. It's really starting to come together! The cabinet lady was out there measuring today and they did the electrical walkthrough yesterday. Nick also met with the carpenter who is building the front porch yesterday. All this makes me want to start packing up the apartment right now!!!!!

Gracie in her new booster seat for the car Owen in Gracie's old seat Nick and Gracie on the dirt bike They like each other!!! The past few weeks have been busy, as always. There seems to be something every night. Owen had his one year check up with the doctor two weeks ago and he is doing well. He was 24 lbs and 3 oz. He is doing everything he is supposed to be doing except talking. He doesn't say many words yet, but points to things like he wants you to tell him what it is. He is trying. He has learned to sign some words, though. He knows "more," "please," and "all done." We are working with him on "thank you" now. He is starting to use them without being prompted by us, too, which is good. It is so much better than him screaming, which he still does once in a while. Owen is climbing on everything and trying to pull himself up onto whatever he can. He wasn't sleeping very well for awhile and I'm not sure what the pro...

Looking from the garage side of the house Back of house Here are some different perspectives. The top is taken from southeast of the house. The garage will open from the side and there will be a covered porch across the front of the house. The front will look like a ranch house, but we will have 2 beds and a bath upstairs. The second picture is the back and shows the house looking from the northwest. You can see the upstairs windows and back sliding door entry. There is a daylight window that you can see in the basement which will eventually be a 4th bedroom. There is one other egress window that you can't see, just to the left of the door and window. Our bedroom will have a sliding door, too and we will eventually have a deck all the way around the house.

Basement floor is poured 9/9/11 Basement is framed in 9/15/11 Starting on the main level walls 9/21/11 Main level walls are done and trusses started 9/23/11 Second level started and garage trusses done 9/24/11 We finally have something that looks like a house. There was a lot of progress in the framing last week, although we are still behind. Framing was supposed to be finished by now and roofing was supposed to start today, but that did not happen. It probably won't tomorrow, either, but hopefully by mid week. The plan is still to move in by the end of November, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed! They have done a lot in the past week and it's looking good. We have picked out our kitchen and bathroom cabinets and will get those ordered as soon as the framing is done. We have also looked at countertop. Nick is supposed to do an electrical walkthrough with our contractor on Wednesday to pick out locations for switches and outlets. I hope they have enough of the interi...

Gracie's new My Little Pony castle Gracie holding Jaxson, her newest cousin Owen riding Zeus with Tony Gracie getting a ride on Bullseye Gracie's ice cream cake! Owen's cake It didn't last very long Gracie in her new pink hat and pink sunglasses Owen sitting in the new Iowa State chair Gracie driving the skid loader The birthdays happened a couple weeks ago. Sorry I haven't uploaded any pictures until now. We celebrated at Gramma Deb's and we are so happy that everyone could be there. They both had a great time. Gracie loved all of the stuff that she got and toys are all over our living room in our apartment now. I can't wait until we have a house again! If you notice in most of the pictures, she is wearing the pink sunglasses. Those were a pretty big hit and she struggled with parting with them during school the first week she had them. Owen is also enjoying all of the new toys, but mostly likes to play with whatever Gracie has. Go figure. Thank y...