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 Six {Days Three thru Five} ...

Last week was another big week at the house! Things are moving so fast and so far everything has gone really smoothly! After helping after work all week Nick also spent a majority of his weekend working out on the house as well. I love that he not only drew and designed our house plans but is also helping with the building aspect as well {he used to build in the summers while in college, and then started in the office as project manager once he graduated}. He will be able to tell our boys someday that he drew our house and also helped build it, and I love that!

I will let the pictures do the talking this week. I am a little behind do to computer issues last week/weekend. Hopefully I can stay on top of posting this week!



We went out there on both Saturday and Sunday and brought the guys lunch {our wonderful plumber and electrical guy were out there too!} and spent some time running around and having fun. The horses came out to pasture just as we were leaving one day. I just love them.



We have now decided {I think!} on a red farmhouse with white trim. Which shade do you like best? {seriously!} All three are different and we are having a hard time choosing ...

The sky lights were put in!

And the roof was finished on the whole house!

They started framing our wrap around porch. This is probably the thing I am the most excited about. I have always dreamed of living in the country with a big, wrap around porch.

They left the big diggers there over the weekend. Porter was so excited! They are HUGE machines!

Our windows were delivered!

Our mutt, Sam, loves the property. He just runs and runs and it makes him a very tired, and happy, pup!

Again with the horses, I love them.

Cool shot with the sunset as we left one night.

I wear Weston in the Ergo carrier when we are there and he LOVES it. Happy little babe!

Another porch shot.

Porter and Sam exploring.

Close-up of the fence Nick is building.

Walking the land.

View at the end of the walk.

Sunset from the livingroom.