We've been framed!

...and for a little while all we had was one wall, mainly because the power/meter box had to be put somewhere and the guys were getting tired of starting up their little portable generator every time they needed electricity for something.  So what do you do?  You put up one wall, call the electrician, put the meter box on and then leave it there for a while because there are other things more important to do than give it friends.  Still we were excited that we had something in "3D"...  That was Monday 15th November.

Framing started happening in earnest about a week later with Phil and Josh spending almost a day putting lines on the slab and making sure they were all straight and square to each other.  Whoever designed the place made it virtually impossible to do this by making sure none of the walls lined up with any others - so no reference points to get a square from.  What's easy on paper...
But they did well and lines started appearing in all the right places, criss-crossing over the slab and putting the 2D of our plan into 2D on concrete in real size:

From there things just kept moving and the place started to take shape (although it's a heck of a lot easier to move around on a slab than it is through the forest of wood-work that goes up as you frame - one family visit ended in tears with Daniel knowing where he wanted to go, even being able to see the rest of us, but not sure how to actually get there: "Dad! I can see you, but I don't know how to get to you!!")

Lost track of the amount of wood we've ordered and gone through so far.  Will have to plant many, many trees to assuage the guilty conscience and make it up to the planet...