House

Okay, so before I start ranting I'll say I'm so grateful to be building the house we want to build to raise our family in on property that we've all four fallen in love with. I absolutely cannot wait to live there. When we originally knew we were going to build we were hoping by Christmas- ha, def. not happening- we had some delays and such... which is fine, but I am getting anxious to get the ball rolling. Ryan did hire someone to do the siding so he could get started on inside work. I was so excited. The guy promised it would be done in 2 weeks... um yah that was a month ago and so now I'm going to show you his progress (if you can call it that!) bahaha.

This side is completed except for the little piece at the top (which might be done now b/c I haven't been out there for a few days).

sorry the pictures are terrible, I took them at dusk so colors don't look great.

You can sort of tell how MUDDY it is out there right now. It looks so trashy. blah to winter!

mud.everywhere!

plus, the guy doing the siding is not the neatest .

he's great at putting it up (when he shows up), but he just throws his trash EVERYWHERE.

as you can see by looking by the porch.

drives me batty.

the garage side is also done, but NOTHING not one thing on the back side of the house (as you can see here).

The goal is to move in by Brycen's spring break (b/c I'm taking off that week anyway to be off w/ him while he is out of school). That is the last week of March. I'm hoping for before that actually, but probably just not going to happen. So the realistic goal is that week.

Brycen keeps saying, "When can we live at our REAL house?" lol...

I'm in no way complaining about Ryan- he is such a hard worker and is out there as much as possible. Things just take time and I realize that, but geez I wish it would speed up. Part of the frustration is also that since he is out there all the time the boys and I hardly see him. It's a sacrifice right now that I know will be worth it, but I'm ready for the finished product!

This weekend the plan is to finish pulling all the wire. Get the garage ceiling up. Get the garage doors on (which are being delivered today)! Get door handles on the entry doors.

This is all so everything will be sealed off and we can start insulation and get heat out there (so my poor hubby doesn't freeze!).

I'm ready for the dry wall so I can tell better room sizes and such.

I do not mean to sound ungrateful- I just needed to vent!

I'm super excited and just ready to get to the fun part!

I do think I have FINALLY picked out my cabinets! Whoo hoo! I did for sure pick out countertops. Ryan finalized the design of the kitchen on the computer the other night with me saying, "yes" or "no" or "move this" "move that" to him! I'm super happy with it. We changed how the island/bar is going to be and at first I thought I was mad (Ryan thought it was a space saver), but when I saw it designed out in 3d on the computer I actually like it better! (I hate when he's right!). haha!

We have to finish designing cabinets for the laundry/mud room b/c I changed how I wanted a few things in there.

Sorry for this list- it's my brain spilling out. Feels better to see it on paper (okay, the screen).