Well, I keep promising that I'm not going to wait so long to blog and I think this has been my longest time between posts yet. So, it looks like I'm doing nothing but getting worse. I've decided I'm not going to promise to do it again and maybe I will actually follow through this time. I have a lot to catch up on, so I'm not going to type a bunch of nonsense fluffy stuff to start and I will just get right to it.
I've been awful with keeping up on what we are doing each day, so I start out doing really well, but haven't done it at all the last couple weeks, so will just try to do general updates and then get better at doing the day by day.
August 24: Grandpa and Nick finished getting up all the trim on the house during the day. Dad, Gary and I came and worked on electrical after work. Dad and I got all the light boxes up and after that Gary and dad continued to work on electrical. After we were done working, Kellie, Gary, Nick and I headed to Mooville for a little treat.
August 25: Nick and Grandpa went to Menard's during the day to get one of our garage entry doors. Grandma, Nick and Grandpa came back to the house and started siding and got the garage door installed. Gary and Kellie came over after work. Nick and Gary worked on more electrical, while Kellie and I got hurricane straps put on.
August 26: Nick, Grandpa and Grandma worked during the day again on siding. Adam stopped by after work and helped us move the sliding door and get that set. Gary, Kellie, Mom and Dad came over after work again and worked on electrical and worked more on the hurricane straps.
August 27: Gary, mom, and dad came over after work and helped more with electrical.
August 28: Grandpa and Nick worked on the house during the day and were done at 5. Nick and I went into Grand Rapids and met Rachel and Phil for dinner and stopped at Home Depot and Lowe's to look at some stone siding. Unfortunately we didn't find anything, but we had a good night with Rachel and Phil. We ending up coming home and finding something we liked online and ordered it.
August 29: Gary and dad came over around 8 and started working on electrical. Nick and I had to make a quick run to Menard's to get some odds and ends and grabbed some breakfast. Mom got here around noon and brought some lunch for us. Gary left and the rest of us worked until about 6ish. Nick and I went and had dinner at Cuginos and ran to Menard's to return some things and pick up a couple more things.
August 30: Grandpa got here around 10 and him and Nick worked on siding all day. Josh Farrell came over to work on laying out the plumbing. My parents got here around 12 and Gary around 1. I had to leave to go to a baby shower for baby Dow and was gone for a couple of hours. When I got back, I cleaned up the house and bit while everyone else was working on electrical and Kellie was working on the hurricane straps in the garage.
August 31: Grandpa and Nick worked on siding. The got the front of the garage and the peak done with the shake siding.
September 1: Nick had new teacher orientation and was gone for most of the morning. Grandpa and Grandma came over and got the garage side done and the back of the bedroom started. Mom, Dad, Gary and Kellie came over at night to work on electrical and other things.
September 2: Grandpa and Nick worked on siding during the day and got the back of the house almost done. Dad came over after work and we started running the home runs for the electrical. Gary came over and helped Nick and dad with electrical.
September 3: Nick and Grandpa worked on siding agian. Kellie and Gary worked inside on plumbing stuff and dad came over after work and helped with the plumbing.
September 4: I took the day off. Nick and I went to Builder's Plumbing in Lansing to look at bathroom and kitchen fixtures. We stopped and grabbed lunch at Qdoba and headed home. Grandpa and Nick worked on siding for the rest of the day. Kellie, Gary, Ben, Ryann and Josh Farrell came over after work and worked on plumbing and electrical. Ryann and Ben hung out afterwards and watched some football with us.
September 5: Gary came over early and worked on plumbing. Kellie came over after work, and Grandpa was here around 1:30. Nick went golfing and didn't get home until around 2:30. We worked on electrical and plumbing. Ended the night with dinner and then headed to Mooville.
September 6: Nick and Grandpa got most of the peak on the house sided but we ran out of siding. Unfortunately, we were only about a piece and half short, but Grandpa did some working with Big L and found some extra pieces and we didn't have to order a full box. Kellie and Gary came over again and worked on electrical.
The last 12 days: We've worked a lot on electrical and plumbing. The siding is mostly done. We had an rough inspection for the mechanical and the electrical. The mechanical passed with a few adjustments needed, but we had about 15 things we needed to fix with electrical. We've been working on the list that needs fixing the last two days and are getting closer to having everything fixed so we can call for the re-inspection.
The replacement window for the damaged window in our bedroom finally came in (after we have waited about 4 weeks) but of course didn't have the extension on it for the 2x6 wall, so we have to have an Andreson rep come out and fix it, so we can get it installed. We have most of our stone installed, but are waiting for the extra order to come in (which should be here by next weekend). Other than that, the siding is done with the exception of the bedroom exterior wall which can't be done until the window is in, the small bit of stone and the extra pieces of shake on the peak.
Things have slowed down a little bit because Nick had to go back to school, and we are working on electrical and plumbing and everything is very tedious and time consuming. We are hoping to be ready to start insulation and dry wall on or before October 1.
Life is good, stressful but good. In the end, all of this will be worth it and Nick and I will be enjoying a beautiful new house. For now, it's a lot of work for both us and many of the people we love. I'm excited to start doing things that show more progress again and hoping that will come sooner rather than later.
(Please excuse my lack of pictures - I will upload those as soon as I have time)
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