What's your job all about?

So to this point, we've seen a lot of the different things that Greg has contributed to our project (read: everything).  You may find yourself asking, "What exactly is it that YOU do during all of the hammering, drilling and measuring?

There are all sorts of things I keep myself busy with!  My biggest job, of course, is this little bundle of joy:

Really, it's a stretch to consider hanging out with the coolest baby on the block a "job." Does this look like work to you? But, she keeps us on our toes, so someone must keep her out of harms way and stimulate that little mind of hers.

There are, of course, other things that keep me busy....

Yummy drinks for my awesome husband. Guy needs a break every once and a while!

My arch-nemesis....DISHES.  Hate them.  Sadly, we haven't been successful in teaching them to do themselves.

Motivation!  One skeleton in my closet was that I was a cheerleader for one football season. I think that gives me the street cred to keep things cheery and motivated around here.  People are getting things done!

Shopping!  .......oh, come on.  Someone's gotta do it!  It was on sale, I swear!

Stairs - Coming Up!

Take one last look at the house before it REALLY starts changing.  Trust me.  You'll hardly recognize the place when we're done with it!

Sometime in January, we finalized the main layout of the house.  This allowed Greg to start a very important project:  the stairs.

If you'll recall, we used to have two sets of stairs in the house.  Bear with the pictures, it's tough to visualize if you didn't walk through the house before demolition.

Staircase 1 pre-demo

Staircase 1 post-demo

Staircase 2 pre-demo.  Nice paneling, very scenic.

Staircase 2 post-demo, post house-lifting (note: where Nola is in the 2nd picture is where Brian is standing in the first picture for reference!)

Clearly, this wasn't an optimal floor-plan for a 2400 square foot rambler. We took both sets of stairs out and are replacing them with a new, more user-friendly set.

Below, Greg is making the first cuts in the floor.  No turning back now!

There it is.  Big ol' hole in the floor. Watch your step! You can see where staircase #1 was where the wood is a little lighter.

You can still see the old layout in the sub-floors. Back in the day they used to build the walls before the floors.

Hard at work!

More on the way!