an erection!

This is the moment.

The moment we've all been waiting for.

The big one.

Is it real?  Can I really make it happen?

Will it last?

Will it be strong enough?

Big enough?

Will it respect me in the morning?

Oh, my...yes!!!

Okay, this is actually the rear-end of the erection, but with all the trucks out front, it was difficult to get a decent picture there.

I took nearly 200 photos yesterday.  As much as I love photos, I promise I won't post them all.  But there are still a butt-load.

First, let's reminisce.

Here's what our place looked like at 6:30 Thursday morning (without the people inside):

As long as we're reminiscing, I know you want to see shirtless boy again. (Even though that was last week and has nothing to do with this post.  Except to keep my readers interested.

Or lose more readers...Whatever.)

Here's a little timeline.

7:00 a.m. Thursday: The "house" arrived.

By 7:15, the first floor box was down.

And then a few more:

Come together....Right now... 
 (This picture completely cracks me up.)
 

Fitting the last piece!

Meet Floor.  He's my floor.  Not the real one though...he's just a sub.  See that red-painted rectangle?  That's where the stairs go.

First time standing on the main floor of my new house (please give me a minute to finish hyperventilating).

Oh, and that's BEFORE my feet got sunburned.

Here's what they look like now:

Anyway, the floor was finished by 8:00 a.m.  Yep, you read that right.  One hour later my floor was done.

Then they put up the exterior walls.
 (Warning...tons of pics.)

In case you've never heard of panelized building, it's stick-building in a controlled environment.  Then they bring out the wall sections and put them together like a giant puzzle.  The whole structure goes up in about 3 days instead of a month or more...

I'm on the...top of the world, lookin...down on creation....
and the only explanation I can...find... 

Can you believe the gorgeous weather we're having???

Okay, so all the exterior walls were up by noon.  I'll talk about what happened in the afternoon in another post since I'm about to pass out and you're most likely on picture overload. 

I've never seen an erection this big happen this fast.
But we've got wood now....