A wall

We have our first basement wall.  Our brother in law Mike came and helped my Mike install it last Saturday.  I went down and looked at it about 100 times after they were finished because it made me so happy. 

{The first of the drywall going up.}

So here's the before:

{Can you spot the light switch hanging by its wire?}

 

 

 

And now the after:

Now it's an actual storage room instead of just the storage area of the basement!  We'll be able to attach the light switch to the wall and everything. 

It's a small start, but it's a start.  We're still pricing out getting bigger windows cut into the foundation, ones that we'll have to dig wells for.  A lot of the framing will have to wait for that, which means waiting until the spring, since it's kind of too late in the season to dig window wells now.  We're going to do what we can in the meantime and *fingers crossed* we'll have the basement done by this time next year.  Just thinking about it makes me happy.