A Long Overdue Update!!

Gosh we have been so busy!!
First off, here's a sweat equity hours update!!
We need 89 more VOLUNTEER hours (these are the ones that can be done by friends/family and Bill and I)
I have 52 more hours to get for construction hours. the difference is, now Bill has been able to take over my construction hours. We decided that for health and safety reasons (my placenta issues and just being 8mos preggers!!) it would be much better for Bill to take them over for me. That's it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now here's for the house:
-basement is completely framed out (thankyou, thankyou Uncle Ross for hammering away at that!!)
-they made use of the space under the stairs and beside the bathroom to create a storage area (I am sooo thankful I spoke up about that and asked!!! It would've been such a waste of space otherwise!!)
-the majority (or all by now) of the heating and electrical has been done!!
-the outside is complete except for the rock decoration on the front and the veranda needs to be completed
-we have chosen the carpet/lino/paint and have decided where we want carpet and where we want lino
-the eavestrophing (ok don't know how to spell that other than phonetically!!lol) is done!

It doesn't look like we'll be able to move before Christmas and new baby, but it shouldn't be much longer after that. possibly the first couple of weeks of January.
We are still praying for a miracle though!!! I guess the next obstacle will be waiting on the guy who comes to do the 'mudding' for the drywall...apparently sometimes he is on the ball and get's her done and other times he takes a while to get moving.....guess which we're hoping for!!!
We were pleasantly surprised to find out about the heating and electrical though, because we had heard the same things regarding that and it worked our quickly!!

I'm hoping Bill will be out there tomorrow, but we'll see!!

For now, here's a pic:

We have a house number!!!!

Thankyou to Uncle Mike, Aunt Elaine, Uncle Ross, Aunt Linda, and Val for putting in some hours for us!! We appreciate it immensely!! You can never know what a difference you're making in our lives!! We love you!

God bless!!
Penny

Update!!!

Finally, a long awaited update!!!
First here's some recent pics!!

and...

*stairs that lead up to our living room*


*our basement*

So here is the wonderful blessings we've found out!!
-We will have a dishwasher!! Originally the homeowners had to purchase their own, but they recently decided that homes will come with dishwashers and we will have one!!
-we will have in-floor heating in the basement!! A company donates 6 systems per year to Habitat and we are one of the lucky ones this year!!!
-Our basement is being framed this week!!! We also learned yesterday that they will be adding a 3rd bedroom in the basement for us to make room for the new baby!!!
This is a wonderful blessing and brings the total to 6bdrms for us!


We will also be picking out our flooring and paint this week, as well as out counter tops!! Soooo very exciting! We also get to to choose where we want carpet and lino.
Both Bill and I will be able to work on our house this Saturday, so I will take pics and update after that!

Exciting things!!
God bless!!

Hours Update for August 5th 2008

Hurray!! Bill worked so hard this weekend!!
On Saturday he worked on our house and yesterday he got to work at the other site.
So, as of today, we need 301 hours!! I joked with Bill that couldn't he have just pushed the crew for ONE.MORE.HOUR! lol Next Saturday, they are planning on being at our house again. It will be awesome when I can start getting some construction hours logged, we're not too sure how we're going to be able to swing that......need to brainstorm on that one!

blessings!!

House Pics!!

These pics were taken today!!! Bill ended up working on it today and will be on Sunday as well!! Whoohoo!!














It's coming!!!!

Hours Update!!

As of today's date we need 321.5 hrs!! Getting there!!
That number will of course change again after this weekend! Whoohoo!!

God bless, Penny

Update!!

Just thought I'd post a quick update!
Our house has doors and windows!!! Bill will be building on it this Saturday, so I will get him to get some pics.
401 hours to go!! That will change this weekend because we are earning hours all weekend!

Keep us in your prayers that we will earn our hours quickly and the volunteers will be plentiful to get this done! I am praying every night for a miracle...that we can have a move in date of December 1st. It will indeed be a miracle, but nothing is beyond our glorious Father's ability!

Right now, the biggest thing is earning hours. Without hours, it doesn't matter if the house is built...we CANNOT move in!

Thankyou for your support, love and prayers!

Framing Day Saturday May 3rd 2008

This day was one of the most amazing days I've ever experienced. I still get choked up thinking about it and probably will for a very long time. The memories that were made that day are etched in my heart. I will walk through my house in the future and look at the roof or the walls and have such beautiful memories of watching people come together to build our house. It was such an awesome time, it's one of those days where I would go back and do it again and again.

We were able to meet OUR girls, well 2 of them at least. That was incredible, they are amazing people!
Anyways, as you will see in the pics, the 'skeleton' of our house is built. They will be putting it on hold until July, so as to enable them to work on the other projects. Which is great because we will get hours by helping at the other sites, as well as our friends. We are so very blessed to be a part of this whole experience.

So, here's the pics!!!
483 hours to go!!!!








I think if you click on the pics it will take you to the album to see the others!

God bless, Penny