ADOPTION: A Family Choice
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OUR NEW ADDITION!!
The picture on the left, shows the back end of our new 1,500 square foot addition. It looks out onto our huge back yard, and faces some beautiful ponds. Through the trees one can see the colorful sunsets.
The picture on the right was taken from the inside of the large, new family room (through the windows from the picture on the left). This room is about 36 by 24, but has a stairwell and a half bath. It looks a bit crooked, but that is just because of the pink protector paper. We hope to be finished in the Spring of 2003.
The day of ground breaking!! A company donated a small tractor to dig up for the foundation. Standing n our front yard we are: Dad/Dave and Kristin (18) in the back, Art (21), Janice (14), Martha (19), & me/Mom are in the middle, Marc (9), Roger (6), Rita (7) and Sandy (5) are in the very front. You cannot believe how excited we were that day!!
MORE PICTURES!!
There are many community college students in the construction class, but each one of them earned a special spot in our kids' hearts. The students played with them, and taught them important lessons like hammering a nail, cleaning up, moving lumber, etc. Roger, 6, and Sandy, 5, absolutely loved to visit with each student. On the right, one of the students helps "student Roger" learn all that he could learn. Daily they pounded, and Roger actually was able to do hammer in a LOT of nails (sometimes an inch apart...this addition will be solidily built!!).
OK NOW WHAT??
The little kids check out the addition each day. Left: Moriah, our newest daughter, 8, (she now easily and quickly goes over bumps, etc. with her walker), Maria (my precious grand-daughter, 4), and Sandy, 5. In front is Rita, 7, and Roger, who was 6.
Right: some of the community college students learning how hard it is to bring up ceiling joists, way up to the second story. Isn't our back yard beautiful? We will be building a large fish pond, falls, bird feeders/houses, and benches just infront of the large windows of the addition.
The Beginning
These are just pictures of the unfinished second story, without the roof. The view from up here is gorgeous...it almost feels like one is in a big tree house.
This is Serious Work!!
Rita, 7, just wouldn't stop for anything, even for me to take her picture. She tried so hard to shovel, but the ground was awfully hard.
Roger, 6, really felt like a man as he sat on the tractor (engine off, of course).
Hard Work, Right From the Beginning
Janice, 14, would not be left out of the work, even though she is totally blind. Each day she would ask what she could do to help us. She worked hard at trying to scoop up some of the grass and dirt for the foundation. On the right, Leonard (teacher at the community college) helps teach Jay, 21, and Art, 22, how to cut pipes.
Wow!! It is Going to be Sooo Beautiful!!
The addition is attached to the main house by a large hallway, but there is also an outside entrance, with a covered porch. On the right is a view of a student from the brick laying class, putting up a 3.5 foot high brick "wall" which really adds to the beauty.
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