Well, phase 1 is (almost) over and we survived. We are now sleeping under a new roof with no holes, there is a new furnace downstairs and we the a/c is out back. The a/c is still in a box, but it should be done on Monday. The roof looks great, but there have been some problems with exposed nails. They came back once to fix it, but Chris found a BUNCH more, so they will be back on Monday as well. From my perspective, I'm just glad that our roof isn't orange anymore. The color is SO much better.
Before:
After: (in the picture it looks more black - but I swear its brown)


We have one more week to survive. The interior doors upstairs don't have trim on them, and a couple rooms still need baseboards and the swamp cooler hole in the ceiling is 1/2 patched. Chris has been working so hard to get all of it done. Unfortunately I'm not much help. Then this week I will take my car in to get the bumper replaced, Saturday is a service project that Chris is involved in, we have to move all the furniture (and junk) out of our carpeted rooms, and Sunday we have to give a talk. Should be a very FULL week. So if I don't post much - please forgive me. I'm hopefully packing boxes.

To tide you over, here is a picture of my boys.