THE REST OF SATURDAY……
After Tommy’s friends birthday party in the morning, he had his last soccer game of the season. They won and he scored one goal. He was very happy. We then had our extended family over to celebrate Tommy’s birthday with them.
SUNDAY – we spent most of the day at church. We went to service in the morning, came home and had a quick lunch before going back to church for Erik’s Celebration of Confirmation.
After Confirmation we came home and changed clothes and took Tommy back to church for the Hallelujah Festival. After the Festival we (Tommy, Erik, Hubby and I ) cleaned up the church.
We came home and quickly took down our Halloween stuff out front as the demo crew was coming on Monday to start on the driveway, etc.
MONDAY- The Demo crew was at our house at by 7:30 to begin taking everything apart.
As you can see everything was taken out. We had a small mishap with the front walk. When they were removing the front stoop, the concrete got caught on the house and they pulled part of the house off. To the right of the front door they cracked and pulled off the tongue and groove paneling around the door. They said they would repair.
Since I was home, I got some things done around the house. Josh came over and we removed the carpet downstairs that they cat had messed up. We also cleaned out 1/2 of the garage as they need to be able to roll the roller into the garage when they do the driveway.
TUESDAY-
The crew was back again to pour the concrete. Since they were coming and would lay concrete between the house and garage, I called the electrician to come and bury the conduit before they laid the concrete. The electrician was here by about 7:45 and the concrete crew started working around 8:00.
Here is how things looked like by the end of the day……
The pipe was installed so wires could be ran from the house and into the garage.
Concrete slab laid that will be where the garbage can is kept on.
New front stoop and walk.
As you can see we have made a little progress, but there is so much more to do!!! I am trying to remain calm, but it is hard. At the point of this post, we were still waking for information from the insurance company regarding the car accident hubby was in. They totalled the car, but hadn’t told us how much they would give us for it. So we knew we had car shopping in our future! ARGH!! Not my favorite thing and the added expense is very stressful with all the home remodeling we are doing.
But things always seem to work out ok….I have to continue to believe that!!
Jen C
The good news is, they are practically giving SUVs away (if you were going for another one). I hope you get a good return from the insurance company. Edmunds.com is a great site to gather info.
Find the car you want, the amount you’re willing to pay for it, walk up to a salesman and say “I’ll give you this $$ for that car.” If he tries to hem and haw about, just say, “Ok, I’ll try somewhere else then.” You won’t get 3 steps away when he’ll change his mind. Car shopping does not have to take all day at the dealership.
The work is looking great! Did you write your names in the concrete? 😛
Your house is looking really spiffy! Glad the piece of your house they removed will be replaced. Our houses need all of every one of their little pieces, don’t they??? LOL!!!!
I had no idea they had totaled your car. Look at it as a blessing in disguise and pray for God’s guidance. I bet you’ll be happy in the end!
Despite the upheaval, I’m VERY excited for you and your family!
Looks like a big project that is coming along quite nicely! Sorry to hear about the car being totalled! I hope you are able to replace it with something comparable, or even better than what you had! 🙂
Congratulations to Erik! And how exciting that things are starting to get done!!! Looks great!