Brian has vertigo and Laura has a Wal-Mart flashlight

The guys who are framing our house are beasts. We roll out there at about 7:15 PM and they're still working!! At that time, they had pretty much finished framing the first floor and were working on the subfloor for the second level. We walked around and looked at some things and then decided to go get dinner and come back later when they were finished working.

To kill time, we drove to Cary and had dinner at The Loop, which was fun since I hadn't eaten there in forever! After dinner we went to the Cary Wal-Mart (yee haw!) to buy some super-duper flashlights and then headed back out to Knightdale (we're probably going to put 100K miles on our cars in the four months that we're building our house; we've definitely seen the RALEIGH SKYLINE from about every approach in March).

When we got back to the house, the workers were gone (which was a good thing since it was pitch-black) and we were able to check out everything. Our generic Wal-Mart flashlights combined with the ultra force of Honda Civic bright lights and a full moon gave us a lot of good light. We were able to walk through the whole downstairs and all of the rooms are completely framed. It's really unreal. I am SO EXCITED NOW! The kitchen, breakfast nook, and great room are so awesome. I love how open they all are; it's exactly what we were looking for...

We were also able to go upstairs, which was fun. Basically, all there is right now is the subfloor and three halves of walls. It's funny--even though we've looked at the floorplans a billion times, it's still really hard to picture everything upstairs. Although, I'm sure by tomorrow night it will be completely framed! I can't believe how fast they work. It's also really cool to see how high up our house sits compared with the surrounding lots. Since there are no houses being built around us right now it is especially exaggerated, but our lot is still a good bit higher than the others around us.

And to make the day even better, my bracket is 11/12, whereas my dear husband's is 8/12. God Bless America.