Friday the 13th

The wood and tile in the half bath off of the family room

The stone Bryan laid around the fireplace

Tongue and groove going down to the basement

Helaman and Emily working on the master bedroom

Bryan and Helaman working to finish the master bedroom

Master bath

Master Shower

close-up of tile

Upstairs bathroom

close-up of tile

Main Loft - looking toward bedrooms

Main Loft

close-up of ceiling fan

Tongue & Groove

Bryan put this sign up especially for Ang.

This is the view from the fireplace looking into the loft.

Left loft bedroom.

Right loft bedroom

Loft bathroom

Kids' loft (note the log ladder Bryan made)

Kids' loft

Insulated basement room
(where they sleep on the weekends)

Back deck - from the living room door

Back deck

Girl Power!!

We proved that even girls can build a cabin. We knew we could do it, but the guys had some doubt. Boy did it feel good to prove them wrong. We rocked. We moved all the wood from up on the road to the cabin, moved tons of block as well. Then they needed the rebar moved, but thought they would just do it later. Yeah we even moved that.

Labor Day!!

It was a true Labor Day in September 2007. The Lott's (all but Katelyn and Kyle, who stayed with Grandma) Grandpa, Todd, Bryan (Lara stayed home with Sara & Blake), and Jamie and her friend Nell all went to work on the foundation wall at the cabin. Bryan had his doubts that we would be any help, but he had to admit that he was wrong by the end of the day. Austin had the most fun, he didn't realize that he was working. His job was to pick up all the small pieces of block that were cut down, he was so good at his job we ran out of room to put the pieces.



Here are all the guys pondering on placement of the blocks. (This happened quite a bit, I think they were just delaying to make the girls and kids work harder)



Grandpa got the fun job of bending and cutting the rebar. His arms were sore for weeks!



We had a great picnic lunch at the pavilion and then more work in the afternoon. We were there all day and got so much done.

Foundation Wall

We chose to do a block system foundation wall. We could do it by ourselves and it helps insulate the basement. It went up pretty fast and was fairly easy to do.

Footings and Foundation

September 1, 2007 - Footings are done, we are ready to start on the foundation wall.

Construction Begins!

Aug 2007 - Construction finally begins. The hole was dug, the foundation wall blocks were delivered, and the footings were framed. On August 31, 2007 the footings were poured. The whole family was so excited to get this project started, it was about time!!