A little bit more

More subfloor is slowing starting to go up.  Probably about half of the first floor is down, from the back of the house up to the first main beam.

A decent amount of snow is already in the basement and it seems like we're going to be sealing it in should the whole floor get placed.

 Here's a shot from the back towards the front.  It's just been a fancy hole in the ground for so long.  Now it's starting to really feel like some kind of house.  It's pretty nice to have something overhead even if it's just foam

 You can see the concrete pylons that hold the posts for the main support.  The final grade of the floor will be about 3" above this footing.  That will give us just about 10' of basement height.  I'm really looking forward to the height.  We'll be able to have a nice workout room; no need to worry about banging the ceiling with overhead presses.  Another reason is that we'll have a theater room with a two step riser.  Even with the riser height, the last row will be 8' to the ceiling, assuming 12" risers.

 Another shot looking out the back, where the workout room/walk out #2 will be.  The footing on the left of the frame is for the staircase coming down.  It will carry on the curved rotunda stair and support the weight of the stairs above.

 Here's a shot of the kitchen corner.  The kitchen sits on the left of the picture and the back porch and great room are on the right.

The Litedeck sits on the beams.  I'm still not sure what the purpose of the angle iron is since it doesn't line up with the beam troughs.  Maybe they act as tie downs for the concrete when it's poured.  You can see the back porch and gazebo n the right of the frame.