Up in the air

Yesterday (Wednesday 4/21) they lifted the house up to dig for the basement.  It is about 6 inches higher than it will be when it's all finished.  I didn't realize how much higher the other houses were that are next to us.  To make room for the sewer lines under the basement floor we will be about 8 inches higher than our next door neighbor.  It seems like we are way up in the air, but once we fill in the yard it will look very nice.  We are able to stay in the house while they are working, although it feels like a trailer does with the floor flexing and you can not only hear, but feel everyone walking around, even on the other side of the house.

In the pictures you can see the ladder we are using to get into the front door.  There are a LOT of BIG cracks in the drywall on the inside also.  We knew there would be cracks, but didn't realize they would be so big.   In one of the pictures near the bottom you can see Tucker holding up the end of the house!!  ;)

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Progress...

Lots of work done in the past two days.  I knew this was going to be a big project, but the hardest part is making decisions about where things are going.  Like the staircase and the bathroom that will be in the basement.  We have to decide that in the next week or so.  The plumbing for the bathroom goes UNDER the basement floor so we have to decide the location now, and the staircase may determine where the beams go that support the house.  John wants a circular staircase going into the basement, that would be cool.  Click the "read more" to see the pictures.

Day 1

We are having a basement put in under the house.  The current foundation (a crawl space) is falling apart and it is a muddy, yukky mess under there.  John can't go under there in the spring because it is so muddy.  We can't use the attic fan either, it just brings up musty, moldy air into the house.  Although John already took down the mudroom between the house & garage, they started bringing over equipment today so today is Day 1 of construction.  Read more to see the pictures.

Finally got Benji's glasses

Well I finally got Benji glasses, again.  Hopefully these will last more than a few weeks.  You can't tell from the pic, of course, but these have a camouflage pattern on the sides of the frames, very cool for a 6-year old.

I really messed up this time...

Well, I thought I would change my blog a little bit.  I should have known to save my template before I started, duh!!!!!!  I really messed it up and at one point it was in Spanish!!!  Good thing it saves the blog posts in a separate place.  All I lost were the gadgets on the sidebar.  Now that it's 4 in the morning, I should probably go to bed.  :(

Hoben Poetry Jam

The kids had a poetry jam at school a couple of weeks ago. Both Hannah and Benji read a poem. I was very surprised that Benji wanted to stand up on a stage and read a poem. Both of them did a great job!!