A New Day

Well, the exciting news is that another son has graduated college! We are so happy! Only the daughter to go!
It's been a long month for us. With the graduation, construction, and husband's company being bought out. He has been employed for 24 years, same job. The new company laid off two of the workers and kept him. We are thrilled to still be employed, but he's now doing three jobs instead of one. The hours are so long. If lucky, a normal day starts at 5:45 and ends at 7:00. Because of the commute, which is 45 minutes of drive time, he is working close to 12 hours. Poor old man, he's really showing his age with this.
I wanted to show a few more pictures. We are at the after stage on the outside. Has only taken a year to get the foundation back in place and done. I think if we had gone with our current contractor from the get go, we would be so far ahead and have a little more money left. Our wonderful new guy has cost about 2/3's of what the first guy charged. And he's doing such a great job. Hopefully the before/after shots will show that. Hard to believe it's the same area!