Our life has been taken over...

Building a house is like having children on a smaller scale. In the heat of the moment, one might ask themselves "did I really sign myself up for this!?" But in the rest of the moments it is just SO EXCITING and worth it and very fun. This week had a lot of decisions. Someone calls from the house and says do you want your sink this way or that way. Then you have to run to your plans, weigh all the options, look for a trick question, make sure you can afford it, make sure it won't mess up the hvac guy and then call them back, tell them your decision that you'll live with for the next 30 years and then hang up. All while your kids just want you to read them a book.

As I'm writing this, Joseph is up at the cool but still pitch black, very cold house with only his head lamp and a coat, in the rain putting in electrical boxes...

Here are the exciting happenings at the house!

A furnace!

plumbing in bathrooms! vents for hvac!!

 Shelley and her boys came to visit =)

 And HURRAY! Here is the DECK! 

We love our deck! 

 After fighting our uptight engineer (who called our house swiss cheese) we were allowed a 10'6 space for a sliding door. Then when we saw the prices for that non-standard size, we sighed and purchased the 10' door instead. Then, when they delivered all the windows and doors, there were TWO big doors. One 10'6 door and one 10' door. We are hoping their mistake means we can have our bigger door... This is the four panel 10'6" door. 

 And here is the two panel 10" door. 

 checking out the SLIDE ROOM!!! 

 Going up into the slide room!

 Jed moved all the dirt...and here is his excavator Joshua!

 The roof is all finished! 

 looking through closet into master

 Saying hi from the Slide Room

 All our cute windows! Hurray!!

 here is the deck off the dining room

just checking out what keeps us up every night.... =)

Next week: Preparing for 4-way. Putting in windows and doors, finalizing kitchen design and maybe engineered stone walls..

4-way means a guy from the county comes to check all the work up to this point (including all the electrical...!!!!! ) and if you pass, you can keep building. And if you don't, you can't. Evan (and his dream team) will come next weekend to help Joseph. Hurray and thank goodness! What a lot of work we've signed Joseph up for. =)