an uneventful weekend.

  

That is our entertainment center. I know I mentioned it in an earlier blog... Some of that stuff is not on there anymore, I packed it away.. the star fish are gone, the fishing reels are gone, the pictures are gone. Oh & we don't have the turtle anymore- wow this picture is old. It's been a while since we had Chance, our turtle.

Well Chris went over to the house this weekend. My dad was out of town so there wasn't a lot that he could do. He pressure washed the down stairs and then they finished knocking down the 3rd column that was in the garage.

Friday the plumber came in and roughed in all the plumbing. Chris said they wrapped the house in "Tyvex" .. I have NO IDEA what that is! & He didn't take a picture so I can't show you what it is either. Chris said that all the windows are cut out. 

We have a tub in the guest bathroom that is filled with water. Apparently you have to have the tub filled w/ water for the inspection? I guess to show that it holds water & doesn't leak? Not sure on that one. We also have our pantry built in! YES! This makes me mega happy!

I've been thinking recently about all the things that I can't not wait to have that we don't currently have where we live now. 

1. Dishwasher

2. Normal pantry (right now we have 2 "pantries".. they are tiny closets in the kitchen and there is just stuff everywhere, and i also have stuff sitting on a wire rack because everything doesn't fit in my other 2 pantries, it's a mess)

3.hot water that lasts longer then 20 minutes. Right now our hot water is limited. I can hardly wash my hair, body and shave my legs with out the hot water running out. Yes, i take ridiculously long showers & I love it! 

4. a real shower , right now we have a shower tub and it sucks. At our new house we just have a big shower in our bathroom and get this IT HAS TWO SHOWER HEADS!!!!! HOLLA. That alone is quite exciting! 

5. laundry room currently our washer & dryer reside in a "closet" in our kitchen. yah, great huh? The washer shakes the entire house during spin cycle. Can't wait for that mess to quit! 

I'm sure there are more things I could add to the list, but i'll stop there. I am so grateful for our new house! I can't wait! 

Here are a few pics that Chris took this weekend. He didn't take very many. I will be there next weekend so i'll be sure to take some more. 

This week is Electrical, Windows & Siding!!!

 

Hmm .don't quite know what this is a picture of... yah, I have no clue.

That would be the guest bath full of water.

 This is our bathroom. ..  i didn't know we had a window in there.. interesting.

and hey! that's our front door!

There's our kitchen.. and our pantry! Hallelujah!

It's all happening so fast!

WOW! Our new house is coming together so quickly. I thought it would take longer, or maybe it just seemed like forever because I'm so anxious to get over there. Now the closer it gets, the more nervous I get. I seriously have to get on the job hunting band wagon. This is not something I can put off and procrastinate about. I've applied for 3 jobs, two of which were PRN- which is obviously not ideal. I don't even know why I bothered, maybe so I could feel like I was being "productive"? 

So I guess you probably came here to see some pictures, not to hear me ramble on about why I did or didn't apply for certain jobs. So here, here are the pictures you came to see. 

YAY! We have shingles, I forget what they are called, but they are a light brown color. 

For the life of me I can not figure out how to make it where I can type above and below the pictures. Ugh. So I will just tell you right here what each picture is of.


1. The living room. They cut out partial windows so they would have some light while they are working in there. You can see right above the cutout is the wood that actually frames the top of the windows.

 2. Our bedroom, bathroom & closet. I'm so very excited about our bathroom! Big walk-in closet, big shower woohoo!! This makes me so happy! I hate our bathroom and closets where we currently live, they are awful!

3. Just the outside of our house.

4. The first little room you see is our laundry room, and to the left of it is a closet that added in. Everyone loves some extra closet space! Directly behind the laundry room is spare room1, and right behind that is spare room 2. One of those will be housing my treadmill, WHEN I get it & I will be getting one!

5. The last pictures is of our kitchen. You can see where there will be a window. It looks out into the backyard, which is nothing, but it's better then looking at the neighbors house. The sink will be directly underneath the window.



This week the windows are being delivered (installed, i think?) - The air conditioning stuff is being put in, and the plumbing is being roughed in this weekend. Chris will be going over there this weekend to help with the plumbing rough in. Sometime soon the electrical will get roughed in and then the siding goes up. WOOHOO!!! Very exciting!

I am making a trip over there this weekend if everything goes as planned! I am so excited to actually get to see it for myself! I haven't been there in about 3wks. That is the bad part about living 2 hrs away & working weekends- I don't get to see much of it go up! =(

update: 4/6

I just have a few more pictures of the house. Chris was there Easter weekend from Fri-Sun. He & My dad put plywood on the roof & then put tar paper up. Sunday afternoon they also built our inside stairwell! - - - I talked to my dad today, he was over at our house planning out the interior walls, he said he was "snapping lines on the floor"... y'know those blue lines they use for construction? I guess that's what he's doing. We also went to lowes and picked out our shingles, and our exterior paint. So this weekend we should have shingles up & maybe a few interior walls. According to Dad we might be done by the end of June, he said "he's working on it"

looking down the stairs from the 2nd story. yay! very exciting!
We are also going to have exterior stairs!





























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While we were at Lowes I took some pictures of some of the things I have picked out for the house. Not that exciting for you, but its really exciting for me!

I  NEED  this chandelier! It's so awesome! I absolutely am in love with it! There are matching table lamps, floor lamps, and there are also some drop down lights that we are going to put over the bar, OMG i'm in looove!!!

There is the drop down light. We will have three of them over our island in the kitchen!

Ooo yah! There is our shingles and our exterior paint colors. We are going to paint the siding (upstairs) the darker green color; then we will paint the downstairs part of the house the lighter color- it has a shade of green, but you can't really tell from the pictures. The fascia & the trim will be a bright white. Our house is going to be really different from our neighbors. Both our neighbors on the left are poopy brown. The neighbor on the right..uh I don't know. I don't know if he has colors on it right now, he is still building. But I think Chris said it was going to be yellow & green.

I really like this cabinet for the guest bathroom. I am obsessed w/ beadboard, it just looks so "beachy" to me. There is also a mirror that goes over it. It will look So cute! 

  

 Those are kitchen cabinets, again w/ the beadboard. I couldn't really get a good picture of them. But they are going to be so pretty! I'm really excited about our kitchen! Yay! Can't wait to have lots of cabinets, and a new stove, a big fridge, oh boy!