House Update - Week 14

For those of you who are sick of hearing about our house you may have to come back to reading our blog in about 3 months. Right now our house consumes our life and so there is little to report other then about the house. BUT things are moving pretty quickly. The framing is done. Windows are in. We now have the roof on and papered. The plumbing electrical, and insulation are done. We have picked out our stucco colors which proved to be the hardest thing on the house to pick out for me and brought me to tears several times. I am unsure why it was so hard but it was and I am still not completely sold on the colors we did choose. We continue to have amazing family who come to help us. Between our two families Chris usually has at least one other person helping him every night. We have been so blessed! Here are the pics!

We were tagged AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY! Chris got home from working on the house one night after 10pm and was back on the job site the next morning by 8am and this is what he found...

Yes! In the wee hours of the morning and in our little city this is what we found. We were very saddened but grateful that nothing was stolen and the house was left alone. The kids and I spent a couple of hours scrubbing but we got most of it off.

This weekend my brothers came and wired the house for surround sound, central vac, and extra cable/satelite/internet stuff. We have a 5.1 system upstairs and a 7.1 system in the downstairs family room. When I asked what that actually all meant, they responded that it meant "we will be bumpin'." Boys!

Finally, all the framing is done! I thought once I saw the roof sheeted that it meant the framing was done but there were still a million little things that needed either framed in or framed out...columns both downstairs and upstairs, fireplace wall, dormer on the roof, dry wall backing, venting on the outside of the house and attic access, etc. etc. etc. That took an additional TWO weeks.