Week Nine {Days One thru Five} ...

Sorry I have been MIA this past week. The 2011-2012 school year started {I have a pretty adorable group of 17 first & second graders!} Tuesday and we have been trying to adjust to our new schedule. Life is very busy, but wonderful! 

We are officially less then TWO months away from living in our HOME! I am beyond excited.  This past week was a big one... our dry wall went up! The next two weeks will be spent finishing {mudding} the dry wall and then we will get to paint! Seeing the dry wall go up officially made our house feel like home. I can't wait to get moved in and spend the next few months unpacking, organizing and slowly decorating {that part still intimidates me...}. We are so close! 

This week they also...

Put the roof on our porch 

Installed the garage door 

Installed the front door

We FINALLY decided on a siding color and started painting {we are using fiber cement siding and painting it ourselves}

Soffit and fascia went up 

Insulation was finished before dry wall went up 

Porter and Daddy in the tractor!

Nick and his dad put in all of the insulation. This is a horrendous job. Nick's best friend, Derek, also helped with this. You guys rock! {this is the kitchen}

Before dry wall.

Installing dry wall.

Sky light! {in master bathroom and the boy's bathroom}

Garage door! Siding going up to the left.

Siding color we decided on! It got the most votes and we also liked it best. What do you think?! I am really excited to have a red house!

I love our front door.

One view from entrance.

Other view.

Kitchen. {with Porter and Sam's tail!}

Living room.

Master closest :) I can't wait to get our stuff organized again ...

Our bedroom.

Standing in the dining room area looking down the hallway towards the entry. Half bath on the right {first door} then the door to the basement.

Have a great weekend, friends!

Week Eight {Days One thru Five} ...

Life is crazy busy right now in our little household! Things are moving fast with the house and Nick is busy working full time and then working on the house at night and on the weekends {and being full time dad when he is home!}. The boys are growing and changing every day and I have been busy soaking them up and preparing to start another great school year teaching my first and second graders {School starts Tuesday! These last five months flew by!}.

This past week we had our electric and plumbing inspections and passed them both! They also got all the windows in, the basement glass doors installed, the entire porch framed {the floor still needs to be laid and the shingles put on} and the concrete in our garage poured! Nick also air sealed the entire house and as I write this he is there putting in our insulation with my father in law {I love having a handy husband who knows how to do all of this stuff!}. 

I know in the pictures lately the house hasn't really seemed to change that much. It's hard to really capture everything that has been happening the last few weeks {electric, plumbing, air sealing, insulation and so on} in pictures. But, this coming week it will be changing a lot because... the dry wall is being installed! I am so, so excited for this!

Here are a few pictures from this past week ... 

The porch!

Cement poured in the garage!

All the windows in!

Side shot of porch and house.

Basement walk-out doors.

Hurray for windows!

Week Five {Days One thru Five} ...

What a week we have had in our household! My sister, brother-in-law and cutest nephew were here visiting from California. We were so happy to have them here. On Tuesday Weston got sick {after we finally got Porter back to 100%} and then I came down with the same stuff. So, I wasn't able to get out to take step by step pictures this week. We did go out there together yesterday and I was able to snap some pictures of the progess this week. I have loved watching everything come together. It's so much fun going out there each time and seeing such huge changes. This coming week is a big one, with lots of exciting things happening, and I can't wait!

 The cement cookies for the decking {which is coming soon!}.

 Sam sitting on the pile of dirt looking out at the view.

 Trusses were set, roof was sheeted with plywood and ice & water shield was put on.

We have tons of HUGE fieldstones that have been dug up during all the excavation. We will use them to bulid our rock walls, and also for our fireplace.

The garage was framed and the plywood was put up. The windows still need to be cut out of the plywood {this week}.

I thought this was a cool shot of the garage trusses.

Our desperate attempt to try and pick out an exterior color for our house. So far? NO luck!