Brickyard

I feel like I live in a brickyard these days. All of our stone as arrived and the brick has been removed. Boy is it a mess! The best part...only 1 door and 4 windows. The picture doesn't show all the mud where we used to have grass but it will look so nice when it's all said and done.

Our living conditions are a little different now too. These pictures remind me of when Adam and I first moved into our house nearly 14 years ago. We actually hung the dry wall, together, that we just took down from our living room. It's a little bitter sweet, but what was done with love back then is now being done with 5 times the love today. Such a beautiful chapter we are writing for our family.

This is what the front of the house looked like yesterday afternoon...

...and this is what it looks like now. We had to build a tent for the stone guy to work in. All I can do is laugh at this picture; who would have thought we would get this much snow at the end of March?

So much for going out like a lamb.

Invasion!

Well, it took a little longer than I thought, but it has happened. My living space has officially been invaded by the remodel. Behind that plastic is the old front door and a lot of mess. This all took place while it was pouring down a nice wintry mix on Adam and Eddie.

Taking out the old door and putting in a new set of windows.

The view from outside. These holes look way too big for the windows and I am still in awe with each one we do.

Can this really get put back together? Even though Adam has already put two windows in and taken one door out, the ammount of demo is just mind boggling.

No more giant holes! It is so exciting to see my duplex transform into one home! There is now only one front door and I just love the way it is all taking shape. We have stone and brick going in next which will make it look even more like a single house.

I took before and after pictures of one of our windows from the inside. This is in our living room, which will eventually become a bedroom.

Here is the new window. Such a huge change and so much light!

The Two Shall Become One

This is the new view from my laundry room. There used to be a wall seperating the two houses. Yep, it's gone! A little shocking, but very exciting at the same time. I love that I can open the door and see all the way to the end of the house. The stairs are going to be moved and this will eventually become our foyer and family room.

The cement block has been removed from in between the two houses and this is what is left. The front door is directly behind where this picture was taken.

We removed the door to the first house so the boys are using this one a lot now. Josiah especially loves to come in and announce he is home when he gets off the bus.

This used to be my laundry room. So weird not seeing my washer and dryer there anymore.

One of our new windows and where the old door was taken out. Can't wait to get the old windows out too!

Life has become very dusty, loud, crazy, and unpredictable. Oh, wait ...I guess it kind of always was :)

Renovation Cuteness

I just had to post these pictures. Judah is Adam's right hand man all the time and today was no exception! He decided that the sledge hammer was the best way to go about getting the beam out...

until he knocked himself over with it!

Work Day

Today was another work day here at Camp Thompson. Even in the yucky cold weather all my boys were out working on bricks and windows. We did get another window in and the old door out, but it was too dark to take a picture.

Bad Blogger

I admit it...I am a terrible blogger. Life gets in the way and then I don't want to take the time to post anything. I just got the boys in bed and Adam is still working on windows, so I have zero excuses. I may even put up two posts tonight - maybe. We have had our door in for a little while now and I love it. I cannot wait to get it painted and see the final results!

I also love my new door handle. One of these days I might actually remember to take a picture of the inside part too.

After the guys got the brick removed we were left with another giant hole in the front of our house. It is always very shocking to see a hole that large - so glad they don't last very long!

1 set down 4 to go...on this side of the house anyway.

Forward Progress

We have made progress on the upstairs portion; a big shout out to Bert for the help. There was a lot of ripping, tearing, pulling and banging for about a week, but it is nearly bare now and I can almost imagine where the new rooms will go.

The boys still like to go over and help and really don't need too much direction anymore.

All of the drywall is down since I took these pictures. The old flooring is up and the powder room is gone; it really is bare now. As I type this, Adam is over starting to frame parts of the bottom. I love forward progress! He promised not to touch our living area until after Christmas, so life as I know it will soon be over. Say some prayers for my sanity ;)