House Building 101

The Birthday Build was a great success! We had beautiful weather, a wonderful 15 volunteers there to help me, and two houses to work on. One house was prepped and painted, and the other was framed for siding . I was in the painting house, which was a far bigger sacrifice on my part than had I been hammering - I hate painting! But between us all we got all the walls ready, marked all the spots that needed to be fixed, primed the whole thing and rinsed out all our brushes and buckets and such - and all of that by 3:00! The other house did some siding, but then found out that they were far too skilled and were going too fast (another group was supposed to finish the siding next weekend, I think they helped pay for that house so they were doing the 'finish' work), so they then moved onto getting all the framing ready so the other group could just throw on the siding and call it a day. Our group was the only one that was staying there all day - apparently the other groups weren't as tough as us...or as dumb, call it what you like :) We had lunch and then headed back in to finish (the body was a little slow, but when you know you have a goal it makes it a little easier). When all was done we headed home and took well deserved showers!

Cynthia and Nikole getting the bathroom ready to prime

Dad and Aunt Barb "F-ing" up the house - that was my aunt's own term for putting the F siding on to get it ready for siding. The construction guys were cracking up at her.

The Dudley man hangin' out

Mom and Jordan painting one of the closets

nice and clean :)

Brandy painting the ceiling - this was not an easy task and she was not doing it in a very efficient manner, although it was hilarious

the clean-up crew

Sandor, John, Aunt Barb, Dad and Sandor's mom were all on siding duty

the 'A-students'. Dad and Sandor stayed after everyone else left to finish up the porch!

the whole happy crew