Roof and Kara

Kara's little tummy poking out drew a lot more comments than our building so she consented to let me take pictures on Sunday. She was then 12 days away from due date, which is on the 6th of February. They are getting all ready and pretty excited, yet a little nervous.

Here is a profile of her in their nursery.

Now for the boring part - the building progress. They finished the roof on the south side of the building and about 1/4th of the north. Then it got too cold again so they started putting up more insulation on the inside. It was about 21 degrees below zero this morning! Luckily, the building will be very well insulated.

Here is a shot from inside the building showing half of the roof done (and Quinton throwing a tennis ball inside) He then took it out to "be the first one to throw a ball on the roof"! What a goof ball!

Inside the building showing the next layer of insulation going up on the walls.

Kara & Drew's Nursery Set

We had a baby shower for Baby Bott last Friday and I spent a couple of long nights trying to get their nursery set finished. I only had the quilt and part of the bumpers finished but got more done this weekend. It has been super fun to work on. This photo shows their gorgeous crib with the sheet, bumpers and quilt I made.

Here is a close-up picture of the quilt. The sales lady in Provo sold me some pretty puffy quilt bat so it was a pain to quilt but I was pleased with the finished product.

Saturday I made them two of these valances for the windows in the room. Kara and Drew are actually holding them up right here. They said not to get them in the picture but that little black "bubble"on the lower right corner is actually Kara's belly :). Sorry Kara, I couldn't resist. I also made a diaper stacker and may yet make an organizer. It was fun!

Roof In Progress

During the past couple of weeks, they have had to work around the wind and weather. First they put up all of the siding under the eaves (I think that is called the fascia and soffit). They cannot work on the roof when there is wind because the 40 foot roof panels would be too difficult to handle and they could decapitate someone if they got loose.

Then they put up this blue metal trim on the ends of the eaves.

Now they are starting to do the roof. They are about 1/4 finished with it. There is another storm in three days so I hope they can get a lot done quickly. I will post again at the end of the week to show more detail.

WE HAVE WALLS!!!

The north and south walls are completely enclosed with this beige siding.

Excuse my finger. This is the color of the east entrance side. We were trying to coordinate the color a little with our existing blue and brick building. However, they didn't have any light colored blue so we had to settle with this color. The bottom section below the windows will be a tan brick to match the school. Yes, it is snowing while I am taking this picture.
They also insulated the siding while they were putting it up so this is what the interior looks like now.

However - we still do not have a roof . . . and consequentially . . .

. . . they will once again have to begin their work on Monday by shoveling out the snow! I hope they can fit a skid steer through the front door or they may have to do it by hand this time. They enclosed the big opening in the front where they were driving in their big equipment.

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Steel Framing Completed - Windows In

It has been a few weeks since we posted the progress of the new childcare building. The exterior supports of the building are complete, including the roof supports. Although there are no walls or roof, the windows are all in. It looks so strange. Notice the blue trim around this picture. It took them all week to do that last week. There are only a couple of guys working right now because most of MidValley's employees are trying to finish up the elementary school which is two months delayed. That means that we too will be delayed.

This shows the finished steel supports and roof supports. This is the east end of the building which will be where the main door is. However, we have put in a change order to increase the size of the front door to allow large furnishings to be brought in.