This weekend started out with Friday night – Ryan’s dad came over after work and continued work on the chimney!  It’s very close to done now and looks great with diamonds along the top!

On Saturday we had to go pick up our boat in the morning and got to the house around noon.  Ryan started on the first dormer right away, first finding center and cutting a hole in the roof!  Figures it started to hail shortly after that!  We had some cold weather for a weekend with a big hole in the roof!

Ryan’s dad helped all weekend and by the end of Saturday they had the hole all cut and the window all built and put up.  They had started the flashing (putting it under the shingles) until it was too dark to continue.  Sunday was an earlier start and they got the side walls up and closed in, then the roof put on.  The roof still needs to be covered and the soffit has to be finished.  They aren’t going to cut the window hole out until we get our windows.  I left early with the kids Sunday so the only picture I have is in progress but I’ll share what I have.  They covered it all up with a tarp and hopefully some night this week we can get over to work on it a bit.  It gets dark so early it’s tough.

Next weekend for sure Ryan will finish that one up and I assume start on the next.

A good view of hte size of the dormer. This was when I was leaving.

From the inside as they had started the roof

When I showed up sunday morning, flashing was done and the first side wall was about to go up!

I got some burning of brush done in our new pit, the girls helped out once quiet/nap time was over.  It was cold though so I got about 1/3 of one pile done before taking the kids back in.  The house was so cold even with heat on (hello hole in the roof) so the baby was not too happy on Sunday 🙂  She also doesn’t like running around doing errands and we had to do that a bit.

Here’s hoping for warmer weather next weekend – it sure was cold this morning with ice everywhere!