Update

So my goal this April was pretty lofty. By the end of the month I wanted to get the power hooked up, remove the downstairs wall between the living room and kitchen and put the subfloor down upstairs and downstairs. Now the the month is over I can look back and say that it was a pretty big success. We got done everything on our list except we are only 3/4 done with the upstairs subfloor. On top of that we also had the shed in backyard removed. Not too shabby at all I don't think.

Power

That's right the power has been turned on and the house didn't blow up. Looks like the house is coming together.

Lumber

So spending my days off at Lowes has become a common occurrence.

Downstairs Wall

So this wall downstairs is holding up the upstairs so needless to say I can't just knock it down. Our plan is to build a beam to replace the wall so when we put up sheetrock you will have an open concept between the kitchen and living room.

Support Walls

So before we took down the existing wall we had to put up two supporting walls to hold up the upstairs. Once we put up the walls we started take down the original wall.

Downstairs Beam

So to make the beam we took three 2x8s and sandwiched plywood in between each piece. We then glued everything together and then screwed them together. Needless to say this beam is pretty solid. 

Downstairs Beam

So in order to put the beam in place we took a 4x4 and jacked it up to push the beam on top of the posts. It took a while but we finally got it in place