Handprints

We stopped by the new house today and found fresh concrete!

There’s our porch and garage.

So we stuck our hands in it! :)

We look so organized, don’t we?! (Ha!)

I love it!

Left to right and apparently best to worst in the handprint department: Alan, Eve, Lex, Tessa

Truth be told, it wasn’t like that at all. They have been talking about pouring concrete for weeks now and we have been “on deck” to do this project. It kept getting delayed due to rain. Last week they said they were pouring so I stopped by in the morning to find out what time would be good for handprints and the concrete guys said they were just pouring the foundation that would be under the house. No use putting handprints in that! So we went back to waiting. Friday they told us they’d pour Monday (today), but we woke up today and saw “Severe thunderstorm alerts” in the forecast and figured it would be delayed again. I stopped by around 9am as Lex and I were heading to a volunteer event, and found fresh concrete!! I called Alan, who had just got to work after dropping Eve off at camp. He called the builder to make sure we weren’t too late and we all scrambled. We got there in time and I’m so glad we did. The concrete guys were great and even took pictures for us. One guy worked hard to make sure the heart stone was placed well and smoothed out all around.

We stopped by later with cold lemonade and warm cookies as a thank you, but found the concrete guys gone and the framing guys starting to lay out the rooms!! That was exciting! They appreciated the cookies and lemonade too. :)

Eve in the pantry.

It all looks so small. I’m so nervous!  Alan and I decided to go over with a tape measure and double check it against the floorplans, but then those severe thunderstorms did come (not so severe, really) and that plan got delayed.  Maybe tomorrow evening.