House Update-Rock Complete

This week is hopefully a week of finalizing lots of little and big things. First off the rock is getting finalized! I really like the address block we decided to go with and think this looks so good on the house

They are also finalizing sheet rock, mud/tape, and texture so they can start paint in a couple weeks

House Update-Exterior

Matt is moving forward with the deck. At this point we will just cover it in sheets of plywood and then in a couple weeks put down the treks so no one scratches it up.

The girls and I like to spend our Saturdays up helping Matt do whatever we can to help. The girls we in charge of collecting all the nails in their bucket

This little girl loves to get dirty and no better time or place to do that than when they are doing sheetrock...right? She has sheetrock on her shirt, pants, hair,and face, Both girls love to go to the house to play

Getting there one sheetrock piece at a time. I can't wait to be finished and to sit in the house and just enjoy it. It is really coming together

This time when we went to visit we decided to take chinese so we could have our first "picnic" in the family room. Its to the point now Im starting to imagine living our lives in this house. Playing with the kids, putting the christmas tree up, I think it will all be so great

The view out the front never gets old...it will only get better once they move the dumpster and porta potty..lol

They have the scratch coat and scafolding up for rock. Why oh why can't things come together faster? I really can't wait

House Update-Drywall

At this point we are so grateful that fall has extended into October and we are having warmer weather than normal. I met with the landscaper to talk about a plan for the yard. It will be a lot of work but it made me really excited to see what it can be. The landscaper will only be putting the plan together and helping us get all the plants to the house but beyond that its all Matt and I. Neither Matt or I have a green thumb so I think its a great idea to include someone that really knows what they are doing. They are starting to get the house wrapped and prepped for rock and siding. They had to order the rock so it should be here late Tuesday afternoon so hopefully they will start on Wed

Sheetrock is in full swing. The garage and 95% of the upstairs are done and ready for mud and tape. Only the basement is left.

Saturday Matt & Chris worked on the deck...they made pretty good progress. I can't believe the difference it look that it makes. We are getting closer and closer everyday to being able to move into this house we have dreamed about for soooo long.

Trav brought some recruits on Saturday and they busted out the garage so its completely done. I can tell Matt is getting really excited about his garage

At this point we are estimating and are on track to move in the week before Thanksgiving!!! We are hoping to move everything the weekend before Thanksgiving and then get our final permit the week of Thanksgiving at the very least. We will see if everything falls within the scheduled time. Im trying not to get my hopes up but its getting closer either way