She's buying a stairway to...the 2nd floor

We bundled up the girls and headed up the hill yesterday to check on things.  Our expectations of progress were relatively low given the Thanksgiving Holiday but we were very happy to find a ton of progress.    When we first drove up, we could see right away that the sheets of plastic were largely removed from the front of the house and there were a bunch of windows installed.

When we walked through the front door, right away we could see that we finally had stairs to the 2nd floor!  This means no more climbing up a ladder 12 feet in snow boots.  The original plans had these stairs as 'open' with no risers, just treads.  We decided to close them in and use the space underneath for a coat closet.

The other major addition is the framing of the 'catwalk' which connects the bunkroom above the master bedroom / bathroom to the bedrooms on the other side of the upstairs above the kitchen and dining room.  The catwalk is built with big timbers and will be covered by tongue & groove on top.  In the bottom of the picture below, you can see Greg's two sons, Ian & Alexander carrying a large, mulled window into the master bedroom.

This picture shows three of those windows after the guys have finished setting them in place.  You can't tell because of the glare but we have a pretty good view of Hoosier Ridge out those 3 East facing windows.

At this point the girls were getting a little antsy so we decided to play outside.  Natalie looks surprised at the cold weather but is happy to be out in the snow.

Somehow this next photo looks to me like a Yeti sighting photo that you see sometimes.  If only it were a little grainy.  The girls had a lot of fun playing around in the snow.  The backyard has a great sledding hill, if only we could figure out a way to stop the sleds before they head deep into the woods!