School room rebuilt...

I must confess that Scott and I were extremely disappointed and concerned yesterday when we went out to the house to check on progress (see the last two photos posted for this day).  We were in Atlanta Friday through Sunday, so the guys had 2 days of work that we were excited to see.  What we found is that they tore off the entire school room - all of it was removed except for the problematic brick floor (maybe we should rip that out too - it has issues!)!  Richard said that once they got into it, they found that the "sunroom" had been poorly constructed and he was "surprised it hadn't blown down".  So they tore it completely off and rebuilt it.  All we see are dollar signs! 

Today was much better - thank you, Jesus!  Just two more windows to install...the higher ceiling in the school room looks great...oh yeah, and I broke Little Green's (our riding lawn mower) belt this evening while cutting some tall, thick grass...just what we need - another project...how do you replace a lawn mower belt?  I also cut my finger on a nail...time to go home...




New school room - front new windows installed -
love the taller ceiling (the only room we could raise)...




Looking from the school room into the laundry room...we've decided to
close this opening to allow for more bookshelves (imagine that!)...




The original drywall ceiling for the family room/kitchen collapsed
overnight - no idea why...thankful it didn't happen after we
moved furniture in and no one got hurt...




Larger area for the kitchen table...




Oh my - lots of demo material and lots of trips for Big Red...




Back of the house with the larger kitchen table area (bottom right)...
Thankful the guys at least got the house wrapped - probably another
week before the new siding goes up...




Drywall ceiling collapsed...what a mess...




Yea!  The new windows are installed and the lower roofline is complete -
much simpler than it was...The lower roof will be metal due to the shallow
slope, but will be installed near the end, so the workers don't step all over it!



Pretty irises blooming...




Hannah feeding Ty (he's wearing his "fly blanket")...



The kids enjoy taking turns on Cherry...They are going to be so sad
when it's time for the horses to go back to their home...




Daniel's first pony ride!



I think he likes it!  Ms. Monica is so patient!




This photo is out of order - should be first for today but I can't figure out how to
reshuffle photos once uploaded onto the blog.  Anyways, this is looking through
the school room closet to....NOTHINGNESS....The school room is gone! 
Not too happy about this...this was NOT planned!



Also out of order....school room is GONE.  We were horrified to see this....
In the end (and now that we have calmed down!), this was probably better. 
We know Richard does quality work...