two weeks in the house

I can't believe we have been in the house for two weeks already. Things are really coming together.
We still have a lot left to do. Hopefully trim will be in soon. I plan on shopping during spring break for some decorations, bar stools, and new bedding. Our new kitchen table will be delivered on Wednesday!

Here are a few pictures of the kitchen/great room!

Conquering my fears

For some reason I have a fear of ladders. Roy has no fear of ladders, he climbs them like a champ, even to the roof. I am not sure, maybe I think they are unstable. Well with building a house you can't get by from going up and down a ladder, just can't. So I think I have done pretty well with this one.

Another thing that I get scared of are stairs. Not just regular stairs, but ones that don't have the backs on them and you can see the light coming through them. We have had our steps going downstairs like that for a little while now, so I have gotten pretty good at going faster and not worrying about them. I remember one day working at the house and I was walking down the steps. Aj's mom asked me if I felt okay. I think she asked that because of the look on my face walking up and down these stairs and I was walking really slow.

So then today happened. We had another snow day and I felt pretty good about going and being productive and finishing up all my paint touch ups in the house. Well when I got there I remembered what state our stairs were in. We started yesterday taking the steps off so we could drywall the sides of the walls going downstairs. How could I possible walk down these stairs with steps missing!? You had to stand on the wood pieces that normally hold up the steps. I quickly texted AJ, twice, explaining my panic. Then I called him and asked if he read my messages. Of course he did. He said well if you can't do it then leave. The paint was in the basement so I had to go down. He was no help, I don't know what help I was looking for.. Of course he went up and down these step things yesterday with no problem and was holding drywall.
3 or 4 times I sat at the top just putting my feet on the wood holders and got up cause I just panicked. Then I decided to go open a Mt. Dew and get it together. I went back and put my feet again on the wood, held on the side for dear life and prayed. Then I stood up and walked down very carefully. I did it. I was so proud of myself. I quickly texted Aj saying I did it. He wrote back, "good."

Thank goodness for carpet coming Monday...

Big things are happening now

Drywall, mudding, texturing, priming, and now PAINTING...wahoo! :)

The drywall on the ceiling got put up

Our kitchen cabinets arrived

All drywall got mudded and sanded

Everything got textured and primed..very messy

All done with texturing and priming and ceiling paint on

Today we started putting colored paint on the walls! It was so nice having an extra day to our weekend. The holes on this wall are for the TV and speakers. The wood frame is where our fireplace will go.

Here's the front door/entry way and dining room is to the right. This is all open with the dining area/kitchen/great room.

Things are finally coming together now!

Christmas Bowling

This years Christmas was a little different than in the past. My parents went to see my brother in Colorado so they were gone. We had Aj's family's Christmas the weekend before Christmas and then had Christmas with my parents that following Monday before they left town.
We always go to the Christmas Eve service at our church. This year of course it didn't want to stop snowing so AJ ended up plowing from early that morning until 10:00 that night. I still went to church with my grandma and met Aj's parents there. I then decided to go ride around with Aj for a while as he plowed snow. After we were starving and the only thing left open on Christmas Eve at 10:00 was Chinese - they were closing but were nice to give us food to go- so we enjoyed that (the 2nd night in a row eating Chinese).
Christmas morning we decided to go work on the house for a couple hours. Aj and I then went and ate lunch at my grandmas. After we got back home we decided to go bowling with Aj's parents, his sister and her boyfriend. It was so much fun! We got there right when the ally opened and didn't have anybody else there for quite a while. After we went to Toads and played shuffle board and had appetizers. When we got home we all watched the movie Salt.
It was a fun day where we kind of did things spur of the moment!