Color me Happy

I had another weekend packed full of painting fun! Ha, it actually was a little fun because it involved color and not boring ol primer. I really grew to despise primer over the past month...so...incredibly...white!

 Anyway I had already started on Jayda's room and had two coats on all the walls, so Saturday morning I began taping off her chevron wall. Actually I had started taping it off Thursday night at 9pm and it was making me bang my head against the wall so I just had to walk away. Anyway, got it taped off and painted before noon. Then moved on to the spare bedroom and was able to get both of those rooms finished! Wha-la.

Sunday I started and finished the hallway upstairs. I was a little nervous about the red color because I really, really, really wanted it to be the "perfect" red. Not too red that it gives you a headache, and not too blah that you just get sick of looking at it. I'm pretty excited about it, because I LOVE the way it looks against the tongue and groove ceiling and against the logs. It completely transformed that area and made it look warmer and well...just AWESOME! I also really like how it looks against the rock we used on the fireplace so we are going to use it in the triangular wall you see in the second picture below. You'll see it from the living room downstairs, but I don't feel like it will be too over powering. Then I taped off the ceiling in the upstairs bathroom, did my pinterest line trick and now it is ready for paint.

I was able to borrow a paint sprayer from a friend and Justin sprayed the primer on, on Monday and hopefully got it sprayed with paint today! What a relief that was. I was seriously getting anxiety over that room. It's just so BIG and involved painting above my head, the ENTIRE time. I just couldn't talk my body into that again after finishing the ceilings. Too painful.

 How cute are those lights? Ahh?!!! I love them!

 

And then, without my prodding or begging. THIS HAPPENED!!! CABINETS! INSTALLED! 

I just sat and stared at them for about 30 minutes in disbelief. There they were, finally up and so pretty! At that moment it finally seemed like we might actually live in this house at some point. It actually looked like a home! 

You bet your a$$ I called those Lowes counter-top dudes that have been harassing me for a year, on Monday and told them they could finally come template the counters!! I don't think they really believed me. They seriously have been calling me once a week since we ordered the cabinets! We didn't even have the cabinets and they were calling. I finally told them, " I PROMISE I'll call you when we are ready" yet they continued to call. So anyway, they are coming on Thursday to template the counter-tops. The same day the carpet will be installed!!! EEKS! It's finally happening!

Paisley's Room Painted

Here are the pictures of Paisley's room! You guys!! It turned out so cute! When I took the tape off the stripe area, I was so thrilled! My lines turned out perfect, I mean PERFECT. I don't have to touch them up at all. I'll link the pinterest pin that taught me how to get perfect lines. Those pinterest chicks know what they're doing... most of the time. I used the trick on the ceiling too and am very happy with how those lines turned out as well. Go view the link, she gives really good instructions with a visual, because it's just kind of hard to explain without a visual. Paisley was pretty excited to see the finished product. Even Jayda said, "Wow, that stripe really turned out good!" She had previously told me that stripes were dumb. I was able to get the first coat on Jayda's room last night and will get the second coat on tonight. Hers will take a little longer to get the chevron wall done. One week from today we'll see carpet! 

 

I have to finish the stripe in that one little spot below. 

THIS is the little cubby that was such a pain to paint! But SO cute!

Close to 9

I'm extremely close to the nine pound mark. Thinking I'll hit that weight by Friday if I eat decent the next few days! This morning I had a coke, and I enjoyed the crap out of it. Now I have a raging headache and I'm not enjoying the heck out of that. Win some, lose some. I haven't been exercising this week because I've been painting in every spare moment I can find. Plus I feel like painting is a type of exercise. I'm sore and stiff and aching so I'm counting it.

After an entire weekend of painting and only getting the second floor primered, minus the great room, I was feeling pretty down and overwhelmed. A bit on the defeated side and thinking there's no way I'm going to be able to get this house painted in time for carpet. Monday after I got home from work I cooked supper and then went out to paint at 7pm until 9pm. I was able to get the 1st coat on Paisley's room and I started to feel a little better about what I had left to paint. Yesterday I stayed home from work due to no day care and was able to finish Paisley's room and painted the ceilings in Jayda's room and the bathroom. No more ceilings....thank goodness! I really wanted to get them done just so I didn't have to think about doing anymore ceilings and dreading going back out to finish them. So tonight I'll get started on Jayda's room. I taped it last night so it would be ready to go tonight. That leaves me with her room, the spare room and the family room left to do for carpet. We are going to borrow a sprayer to do the great room, which will be a huge relief. That room was really daunting me and I didn't even want to begin.

"Let's have 12 foot ceilings," we said. "That'll look cool, " we said." And build all of these cute little nooks above the closet in the bedrooms, those'll be so fun to decorate," we said. Uhm, DUMB. What a pain in the butt to paint!!

It will look great, but sure didn't think that stuff through very well! I'll try to get some pictures of Paisley's room tonight! I think it turned out cute and I'm liking my color choices so far. When I put the 1st coat of pink on one wall I was freaking out a little. It was looking a little on the neon side. Then when I went back the next day it looked even worse, you could see every brush stroke and roller line. Thankfully after the second coat, it looked MUCH better! The grey-ish taupe color I used on the rest of the walls balances the pink out and once we get furniture and decorations hung, I think it'll be just right! So fun!

The ceilings in the kitchen, dining and both downstairs bathrooms are finished now. We did a copper tin in the kitchen and dining and galvanized color in the bathrooms. Turned out pretty cool. Today they are working on finishing the rock on the fireplace. Next up is the tile around the jacuzzi tub and the tile floor in the hallway upstairs.

Oh and we had our first calf last night! Let the fun begin!

Paint Progress

I don't have any pictures to share, but I did get a ton of painting done! I was able to get the first floor all primed on Saturday, then started painting on Sunday. The 1st floor is done except the master bathroom needs a second coat and two closets need paint. I was pretty wiped out Saturday night and I am pretty sore today! Saturday the girls stayed out of the way and stayed inside the other house most of the day. Sunday they really wanted to "help" so I let Jayda use a brush and do the edges, the bottom of the walls and the corners. I gave Paisley a bucket of primer and turned her loose in the pantry. She actually did a pretty good job, but didn't like being away from us. I missed a spot with primer so I asked her to come get it for me. After she was done she said, "If you need anything else, just let me know!" Cutie! I asked her one time if she was doing OK. Then about every ten minutes she would hollar, "You doing OK, Mom?" It was pretty cute, even Jayda got a giggle. Jayda was also surprisingly good help, once she learned the ropes. I may have yelled at her once and sent her into tears, but she came back and chose to listen! She really does strive to get a job done, sometimes she is just too eager and needs to learn when to back off a bit. It's all a balance and we haven't quite mastered how to work together in a more positive way. Baby steps. Painting can be stressful and messy enough, so having 2 eager helpers is not always the ideal circumstances. I'm a bit jealous of Jed's time alone each day to work and get stuff done without ANYONE else to worry about.

So now I move on to the second floor, which is more work with the high ceilings and tall walls to paint. One room at a time, we'll get it done! I might have to take some time off of work the week that the carpet installers arrive to  make sure it's all done. Can you believe that...CARPET! It will look so finished when there's carpet! We're getting closer!

Painting time

I bet you can't guess what I'm going to be doing this weekend? No?

PAINTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I actually semi enjoy painting, so I'm pretty excited to get started! Our texture guy finished up last night at 10pm. yes...P.M. Poor guy. I kinda felt sorry for him, but it was also kinda his own fault for not showing up on Monday and not having anyone to help him. He spent most of the day touching up and taping the logs off. When I got home at 5pm, he hadn't started spraying texture yet. Anyway, he's done, it's done, it's ready for ME!

I keep trying to prioritize which rooms need to be done first and then I think, no..I better do this room before that room or maybe I can do them ALL! Ha. I think my game plan is to get primer on the kitchen and dining walls tonight after work. Then tomorrow I can get some COLOR up! I'm doing the kitchen a dark chocolate brown and the dining wall the same. My goal is to work on the first floor all weekend. There aren't any ceilings to paint on the first floor and really not a ton of wall space either. I'm not 100% on which colors I'm putting where yet is the problem! Once I get going I think I'll figure it out.

Once I get the master bath and the 1/2 bath done, Jed can set the vanities and counter-tops and get the toilet installed. Then it's going to start feeling like a house. So excited to see those small bits of progress.

The rest of the rock for the fireplace arrived, but Jed hasn't felt like finishing it since it's been so extremely cold. He has to go outside to cut the pieces and back up the stairs, back up the ladder and repeat. Justin is coming back to help him next week, so I think he's putting it off until then! One person cutting and one person measuring is a bit less time consuming. He also hasn't felt the greatest this whole week and has been trying to recuperate. The heifers start calving in just two weeks, so it's really turning into crunch time.

So there's our house update for the week. Hopefully I'll have some pictures to share by Monday!

Fireplace pictures

Our tape and texture crew finally showed up!!! YAY! I was getting ready to throw a pouty fit if they delayed our job any longer. They were supposed to arrive Tuesday, emailed me Monday and said it would be Wednesday, emailed again Tuesday and said it would be Thursday. Then said they would call Wednesday night for directions and didn't call. Finally called at 6am Thursday to say they were on the road! So exciting!
Hopefully they won't be like the heating crew here, and actually come back consecutive days and FINISH the job. Crossing my toes.

Jed and Justin began work on the fireplace rock this week. It is looking so good! What a relief. We ended up being short quite a bit, so Jed called the place on Wednesday and told him they had miscalculated. The guy who ordered it told him they had some extra boxes on hand so he actually delivered them on his lunch break! Hopefully we will have close to enough to finish now. He also took back the hearth stones that are sitting on the hearth in the first picture. They are grey and were supposed to be brown. Jed checked and he actually did order brown, but they screwed up the order somehow and sent grey.

Oh, and P.S. Thank you to the couple of people who leave comments on my posts! I love getting emails that tell me someone commented on your post! It also kind of lets me know who is reading this! One time I got a facebook message from someone who said, "I read on you blog...and so on," and I thought, Oh my gosh, YOU read my blog? It was totally OK that she did, I just had no idea that people other than my sisters, mom, aunts and a few friends even know that I blog! I haven't shared a post on facebook in a very long time and kind of prefer that it stays semi private I guess. Not everyone has to know about my weight loss woes :)

House update

Our weekends (and Jed's weeks) continue to revolve around finishing the house. Sometimes I sit inside it and think to myself...it's never going to be done. After spending an entire day staining and still not completely done with that small portion, it still seems so overwhelming.

Then I look back at our pictures and realize how far we've come. There's hope we may live inside it ....someday!

They have all the tongue and groove ceiling done, just need to finish it with trim. Now Jed is working on finishing plumbing to all the tubs and showers. Yesterday he opened the valve and turned the water on. That was kind of exciting to hear running water! Of course one of the hoses wasn't the right size for the toilet so he couldn't get that running quite yet. Man it will be nice to have a working toilet in there! Our heating/cooling system should be finished up this week. The installer (co-worker) promised he was coming out Tuesday AND Wednesday this week, so I'm going to hold him to it. And throw a pouty fit if he doesn't show up.

Below are some updated progress pictures

Left of the tile in bathroom before grout. Right picture with grout. This tile is in all the bathrooms.

This is the shower curtain I think I'll do in the upstairs bathroom for the girls. And Paisley's room will be in these colors also. The picture on the right is what I want to do in Jayda's room, with those colors and a turquoise accent wall.

These are the before and after of the ceiling.

 And this is the ceiling steel we are going to put in the kitchen and bathrooms downstairs.

House pictures

These are not the most exciting pictures to view, but I'm going to show you them anyway! First picture is Jayda's room with the sheetrock up.

 

Another of Jayda's room below. Her window faces the north side of the house. 

This one is taken from inside Jayda's room and looking out her door, down the hallway upstairs. You can see the fun angles and tall walls we will get to decorate! (below)

Another of the upstairs hallway. The door to Paisley's room is on the left. 

Middle door is their bathroom and end door is Jayda's room.

 A view of the stairs and the front door.

I'm standing in the living room near the front door in this picture. L shaped kitchen is the sheetrocked area. Sink will be below that window. You can also see the door opening on the left for the walk in pantry.

The black door on the left is the door that comes into the house from the garage. The door on the right is the walk in pantry that is basically behind the kitchen wall that the stove will be on. 

And most excitingly, the tile floor going in! The upstairs bathroom tile is all down. This is the master bathroom. The tub you see is a 6 foot jacuzzi tub! Can't wait to fire that up! Our double sink vanity will be on the left where you see the pipes coming out of the wall and a walk in shower is on the right. A toilet is between the shower and the tub (not seen). We also plan to put tile in the blue area above the tub. The doorway seen to the left of the tub is a half bath/laundry area.

 And lastly, the view from outside! The roof has really changed over the winter and is very much more brown than galvanized color now. Which is what it was supposed to do!

House frustrations

I should know by now that anytime things start to get exciting and seem like something might move forward, that something will backfire instead and leave us at square one.

Last week I talked about the tape/texture guys coming this week to begin on that project. Well.....they came over on Thursday to look at the house and basically told Jed they didn't want the job! They didn't know how they would reach the walls in the living room (open vaulted area) and they didn't know how they would keep the logs clean. Uhhhh what? There was scaffolding in the living room already and a sheet of plastic should do the trick on keeping the logs protected. It was bizarre. Jed was pretty amazed at how ridiculous they were. His cousin Justin was there too and couldn't believe it! They are even from Belle Fourche, so it's not as though there aren't log homes down there. Soooo, back to finding someone to do that project. Hopefully we can find someone who can get up here within the month. I was really getting excited to paint!

Our heating/cooling system guy is going back to our house today. I had to put on my bitchy pants and tell them (here where I work :) that we needed the job done NOW. If they couldn't get to it, then they needed to find someone who could. Remarkably, that was on Friday and today he is on his way! I hate having to do that, but it seems to be the only way to get things done.

Another dilemma is what color of rock to put on the fireplace. I thought I had it figured out from the color samples in a pamphlet, so we went to Lemmon to order it and the real-life samples were WAY different. The one I liked best was awful! So I've been staring at pictures on their facebook page for 3 days, trying to pick. It's so hard to try to coordinate everything together when NOTHING is actually laid out in front of you.

November recap

November has came and gone without a single blog post. Whoops. Sorry. I've lost my desire to blog I guess you could say. I think about it once in a while and I enjoy reading others blogs, I just don't "feel like" it anymore. A person really should post daily to keep any readers, so I'm fairly sure I'm talking to myself here!

In November Jed and I both celebrated birthdays. Another year in the books..yay! The girls are getting to the ages that they really worry about us having a GREAT birthday! It's very cute and thoughtful how they hand make paper cards that they think are the worlds greatest masterpiece! Bless their hearts!

The Batie's actually came home the weekend after my birthday, so we were able to spend a weekend with them. As always Jayda and Paisley were very excited to see Sydney, Wyatt and Cooper. Grandma Jinx kept them for one evening and the adults went to a hockey game. I'm sure they were perfect angels :)

Thanksgiving has also passed in the meantime. We spent the day with the Seim family, eating and playing games. I came down with a horrible sore throat and cold that conveniently kicked in that morning. I made it to work Friday, but not Monday. Jayda and Paisley had already taken their turns with it, but somehow Jed missed out.

We have resumed work on the house the past few weeks also. Jed's tractor broke down so he had to quit hauling hay. Little does he know, I was behind the demise of the tractor. ha. just kidding. That shit gets expensive.

He's been plumbing and sheet-rocking, so it is starting to take shape inside! The duct work is being installed slowly by Grand. The guy has been out two days, hopefully can be done in another day. It's like pulling teeth to get them out there to work on it. It seems something else more critical comes up each time he is scheduled to go. Once the ducting is done we can really move forward with EVERYTHING! I'm very excited to get the sheetrock up and get the tape/texture crew out there. Taylor and her boyfriend Tate came up last weekend and helped for a day. We are hoping Ryder will spend his Christmas break with us also!!

We finally decided to go with ceramic tile in the bathrooms. We had considered linoleum, but just couldn't get too excited about it. We took the plunge and headed to Menards one Saturday and came home with a load. A week later I was looking at the Menards ad and saw it was on sale, and the sale would save us around $500!! Do you think I could find the receipt to call them and get the price adjustment?? Of course not! I kept asking Jed if he had it, because he had paid for it and hauled it out to the tahoe. He couldn't remember and didn't try very hard to look. I went through all his jeans, vests, coats, wallet and piles of papers we have everywhere. No luck. Finally one night I switched purses and guess what I found shoved in my purse?!! Yep, there it was! One phone call later, we got the price adjustment with just 1 day to spare, as they only honor the sale price for 14 days after the original purchase. I was excited. Jed could care less about that kind of stuff. But $500 is $500 and I'LL TAKE IT!

Cabinets arrive

Yesterday we had a bit of a blizzard. It started raining/snowing in the night and continued until about noon. School was let out at 1:30, so I picked up Jayda and headed home. Jed had Paisley since our day care was closed and I figured he would be wanting to get out and get baby calves off the ground and somewhere warm.

Our cabinets were scheduled to arrive between 3pm and 7pm. They showed up at 8:30pm, the wind was howling, snow blowing and COLD. It took the driver about 45 minutes to get his semi truck backed up to the garage doors. I now feel a little better about my own backing-up skills (and they suck). Two black guys, who apparently aren't used to cold weather, unloaded 20 boxes. Their day started at 4am in Minneapolis. They were headed to Lemmon for the night after our stop and up to Bismarck the next morning.

It was cold and late by the time they were done, so I didn't even crack open a box to check them out. But I'm DYING to see them!!! Unfortunately they will be sitting in the garage for a while, I'm afraid. Jed has about 30 heifers left to calve before he will have time to work on the house again. We have to finishing wiring the main level, get sheet rock up in the kitchen, tape, texture and get flooring down BEFORE cabinets can be hung. I keep telling myself, patience, patience, patience, but I suck at being patient! This weekend we stained the living room logs. Oofta, we have A LOT of LOGS to stain. It actually went pretty quickly, but there's a lot left to do, inside and outside and chinking. That chinking is really going to suck. "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming." If only I knew how to swim ;)

Spring!

Spring is here! Well....not really temperature wise, but date wise, it is here! Jayda has been helping Jed gather the heifers each night when we get home from work/school. Paisley is getting a little irritated with the "it's too cold" excuse. But really.. . . it is. Last Friday we didn't have daycare so they stayed home with Jed and both got to ride. Paisley is going to take over Jayda's horse if Jayda isn't careful! Jayda is finally becoming a little more aggressive when she's riding and ready to "get after it!"

Paisley is loving her pre-school and feels pretty big! Her teacher was impressed that she knew all her colors and has a pretty good start on the ABC's.

We went to Rapid/Hermosa this past weekend to pick up more house stuff. Jayda also got a new bike. She had outgrown her old one and it's had a flat tire for quite a while. She was pretty excited to be able to ride bikes again with Paisley.

House news: We picked up showers and baths, flooring and 2 more windows. Jed and his dad put the front picture window in on Tuesday. They actually had to cut the window opening so they could get the shower inside, as it was too big to fit through the doorway. (oh darn! There's more than one way to get them to put the dang window in!!)
They are finishing up the steel on the back dormer and finishing the gable end that the two new windows went in. I've ordered and received all of our light fixtures except for the bathroom fixtures.

OH! And my deal of the day story!! I occasionally browse Craigslist on my coffee break just to see if there's anything in the materials section that we might be able to use. I LOVE a bargain, sale, discount...anything that I don't pay retail for, basically! Drives Jed nuts, but we are on a budget here, so too bad! Anyway there was an ad for log jam chink (the white stuff that goes between the logs). So I clicked on it and it happened to be the color we were planning to buy (it comes in about 7 colors), and he had 7 buckets, just one short of what we will need. So I emailed him to see if it was available and he said yes. Then I told him we lived by Faith, but I'd be coming to Rapid sometime soon and could pick it up. He replied that he could just deliver it because he was near Faith, in Bison! HA! HOW crazy! He was working on a job up here and had it left over, so he dropped it off at work today, gave me instructions on how to chink, how to fill the caulk gun (which he threw in for FREE) and offered to sell me log furniture if we need any! The best part is we saved $900!!! Boo-yah! I'm pretty excited about the whole story! My last craigslist attempt didn't workout and really pissed me off, so I'm glad this one went better!

West gable end. This will be a family room above the garage.

Front living room, picture window

 

House pictures

As promised here are some pictures of the steel on the roof....AND windows are all in on the second floor! Yay! I didn't win the battle of getting the 1st floor windows in, but I'll settle for what I got! I'm agreeable like that. And there's basically nothing I can do about it, unless I want to fire up the chain saw myself and well. . . .  I don't. So. Wait, I will.

So this is what the color of our roof will look like when it "ages" or rusts naturally over time. The steel is uncoated galvanized (meaning it doesn't have a protective coat on the top). The rust acts as a paint, basically and the steel is thicker than your average steel, so the rust won't rust all the way through. It has a 40 year guarantee. The piece of brown underneath the corrugated steel in the picture is what we did the trim, soffit and fascia in (brown). 

This is the back view of the house. The center window is the bathroom for the girls. 

The window on the left will be Jayda's room and the window on the right is Paisley's room.

Front view of the house. We still need to put the planks up on the front of the dormers. 

They will look like log siding. And obviously, finish the porch :)

Gable end on the east end of the house. This steel will rust as well. 

Front view with garage.

 

House Update

Just got off the phone with Lowes! Our cabinets will be delivered April 8th! So excited! Hoping they won't sit in their boxes until August :) That was Jed's comment. *cough cough*, WRONG!

Our roof is now complete! yay! I'll take some pictures this weekend. Jed's working on the soffit and getting the steel on the gable ends. I'm going to try to talk him into putting the front windows in. I like to ask him a gazillion times and wear him down. Then I go away for a while and leave him alone :)
He talked to the electrical inspector yesterday and it didn't sound like we would have any issues there. Jed was worried he had done too much insulating, but it will be fine. He was able to finish insulating the entire second floor ceiling and gable ends. Now we just have the insulation in a few of the interior walls left to do and the ceiling of the 1st floor.

Weekend temperatures are going to be near 60! Sounds like a dream!

February progress

Last week we had a fireplace installed and the backside of the roof has steel on it. The roofers are there today and tomorrow finishing the front side! Yesterday Jed and Lane got most of the ceiling insulated, just a few hours left to finish the ceiling, then he can start on the walls. We are waiting for an inspector to come check out the wiring before we get too crazy with insulation. Step by step! It will be nice to have the roof finally complete and Jed didn't even have to do it!

Here is a picture with the deck on the front. It's not finished but you get the idea! I'll post more pictures when the steel is finished.

The inside view of the front door! Jed trimmed it with cedar! Looks great! We will also have three of those big round lights going up the stairs. They use the old Edison style light bulbs. Love them!

This is the counter top we are doing in the kitchen.....which we finally ORDERED! YAY! This kitchen was stressing me out, trying to decide who to go with (Lowes or Knecht).

We ended up going with Lowes and I feel good about that. I had a counter top picked out at Knecht that I really had my heart set on...until.....I got the $9200 quote for it. FOR COUNTER TOPS...not even including the bathroom! So I kept looking and found a different one I thought I could live with at Lowes. My mom and I were looking at it on Saturday and thought it was more peachy than we liked, so we looked at the one that was on sale and it actually ended up being my favorite. They had it in a display, so it was easier to see what a whole slab would look like. Love it! And did I mention it was on SALE?? Yes? I'm pretty excited about the sale price, saved us about $2000. YAY, finally something SAVED us money!  The cabinets are rustic hickory, the island is vintage black and the bathroom vanities are vintage black also. I ordered counter tops for the bathroom in venetian gold. The kitchen color is Santa Cecelia. I also picked up all the faucets except for the kitchen sink. The decisions are getting smaller and smaller!  I think lighting, doors and bathroom flooring are about all I have left to pick...and paint colors. We're getting closer!

I should also add that so far, Lowes has been great to work with. They answer my questions quickly, whether it's an email or a phone call. And they are able to do everything on the spot, no waiting for them to draw it up and get back to you...or say they are going to get back to you and don't. In the end Knecht not getting back to me is what made us decide to go with Lowes. With as many customers as they see, they still are quicker to respond than anyone else we tried to work with.

We've had to order a lot of stuff from Menards also. Their whole loading material department needs some serious help, but we haven't had any train wrecks yet. Finding someone to help you in their store is about like pulling teeth as well.

Doors are in

It's a weeee bit cold up here on the frozen tundra today. I keep day dreaming of Spring and temperatures above 50 degrees. I try not to ask for too much. I'll settle with 50! Also day dreaming about what stage the house project will be at by that time.There are times it feels like there isn't a whole lot left to do and other times it feels like it will never get done. Jed and his Dad put our garage doors in last week. We LOVE them! Sorry about the big shadow across the picture. That shadow is coming from the plumbing truck! Yay! Jed's friend put the water lines in on Saturday. Just the toilets and the kitchen plumbing is left to do. Jed and Scott also started on the wiring. As of yesterday he had the second floor almost complete. Then he will move to the main level.

Update to Dream Home post, below

Since I posted a picture of our sink below, I have a cute tid bit from Paisley.

Her and Jayda were inspecting the sink, mainly to check out what was inside that huge box. As they got it open and found the sink inside, Paisley said, "Is it a tub??"

I got a laugh out of it! It could be a tub for her at this point.

Over the weekend Jed did manage to get ALL the walls framed up! Upstairs and downstairs! Yay! The closets remain to be framed, but that's all! Yay for progress. He will be going to Rapid sometime this week to get more materials. And I've got more doors to pick out.  Man, I'm kind of sick of doors! This time I need to decide on interior doors. I've got my eye on one already, just need to price it. Which is my least favorite part of this...finding out the price and then going back to the drawing board. Ugh. Good taste sucks sometimes.

Dream home

Thought it was probably time for a house update. I don't have any pictures to share, mainly because it's dang cold out and I am not a lover of being cold. We are getting the interior walls framed up at this point. The main level is basically done and we'll (I say we'll like I am a lot of help!) hopefully get some of the upstairs finished this weekend. Although the high temp is supposed to be like 8, so yeah..I'll leave that to Jed. It's neat seeing each room come to life and get a better visual of each space, as I've said before. Our garage doors and walk through garage door came in, so hopefully we can get those picked up and installed before the month is over! Excited to see the garage doors in!

I'm still debating on kitchen choices. I called today to have another estimate on a granite counter top at Lowe's, and emailed the guy at Knecht on Monday about laminate for the bathrooms. He hasn't replied, which always leave a bad taste in my mouth. The lady I talked to at Lowes was very nice and hopefully will get back to me sooner than other people have. So far with the kitchen, Lowes has been very responsive and wait time has been minimal. I had high hopes for Knecht, but he's failing this week. It just blows my mind when these places aren't jumping at the chance for a $15,000 job. I guess it's nothing to them. Unfortunate. And the guys in Lemmon....don't even get me started. I STILL haven't received their counter top quote. He has given me every excuse in the book from his computer went down, to the manufacturer lost the quote, blah blah. Sorry, done with you and moving on. I don't even bother to ask anymore, they are OUT of the running.

Our apron front copper sink arrive this week! Super excited about that! It's amazing!!

Now if we were just ready to install it! One day! Our steel for the roof should be here in a week or so also. Step by step it will all come together.