PICTURES!!

Her are the pictures that I promised. We will start with paint. We had a lot of people show up to help paint. The garage alone took 3 hours to prime. Here is a picture of the color that Halie picked out. It really fits her personality.

Bathroom. laundry roon and bar cabinets have been installed too. Here are the base cabinets in the laundry room.

My brother Josh and I spent a whole afternoon building the deck for my tub and installing it. No fun. But it is done.

Ironing board and cabinet are stained and varnished. Just waiting to be installed.

Fished dropped by a couple of weeks ago to do the final instal on the fireplace/ It is ready to be used.

Yesterday the boys were able to trim out the basement. I'm glad to see it start going on the walls and getting off of my floor!

Dad and Craig started hanging ceiling grid yesterday also. It will be nice to have the panels up.

Here are Joe and Josh putting up the bi-fold doors on the closets.

My free pantry door!!!!! Love it!

UPdate with no pictures....yet!

We have been VERY busy since my last blog. Unfortunately I don't have time to upload any pictures right now. But I will soon. I promise! Since the last time I wrote we've finished painting (except for touch ups). Halie's room will crack you up. It is so her personality! We've also finished all of the electric except for 2 lights, hung all cabinets except for kitchen cabinets (which are being custom built), ordered trim, stainined and varnished trim, hung doors, put up ceiling fans, finished brick and I'm ordering carpet and tile this morning. That's a lot in a couple of weeks!! The plan this week is to finished all varnishing and to hang trim. Kitchen cabinets will be installed this weekend too. Everyone keeps asking when we are going to move in. I don't know. I know what I hope and what would be the perfect time between work, school and everything else. But I'm not making any promises to myself. I'm sticking to my original answer of " We would like to move in by my birthday, February 23rd. But if the house is finished sooner that would be great!". Let's hope for that. Pictures soon to come!!!

Almost There....

Mud and tapers came last week. It's taken them a while because the mud hasn't been drying very well due to the weather. Today is thier last day though.
All in all they did a pretty good job.

My brick is finally tied together!! Bill is just about done with it. This should be his last week. He still has what is left in this picture, the porch, steps and columns.

On Saturday we blew the insulation in the attic. It was a nasty and awful job. So glad that it is done. Craig was being silly before he climbed up in the attic.

It took 150 bags to cover the whole attic to the R value that we wanted. That is a TON of insulation.

Today the finishers are doing the knock down ceiling. Tomorrow we are painting!!! Cabinets are here too. Should be installing those this weekend. I'm ordering trim this week. Staining and varnishing will take a while. Then it's flooring, guttering, finishing dirt work, finish plumbing, finish electrical, deck and driveway. Still a ways to go.

Halloween with a house update

It was a wild and crazy weekend to say the least. I had surgery on Thursday (long story), we spent the weekend at my mom's, finished hanging drywall and to top it off we had an awesome Halloween. Here are a few pictures of the events.

Cody went as scream again this year. He played the same part a couple of years ago.

My family hadn't gotten the chance to see Hanah cheer yet. So she dressed up as a vampire cheerleader.

Halie went as a goth girl. What's scary about this is that it is so fitting. I could see her coming home one day with her hair dyed black. Ugh....

Then little Miss Strawberry Shortcake showed up and decided to trick or treat with us!! She was such a doll in her costume!!

Craig had a great time trick or treating with them too. He's such a sucker for Halloween.

Now...house update. On Saturday and Sunday the boys were able to put up a bunch of the soffet. What isn't up still needs to be bricked.

Here is the north side...ALL DONE!!!