A Day To Be Documented

I don't have many pictures because I have been going up to the house in the middle of the night to bring Joseph his dinner. Nevertheless, today needs a post because Joseph is still working up there. So lets do this math together.

Last night Joseph went to bed at 8pm. He was up at the house working at 2:30am. He rushed back here for his 7am meeting and worked his day job until 3pm. Then, he raced back up to the house... he was going to come home at 10pm but a kind soul in our ward, Tyler Hardy, came up to help him... Joseph is always so thankful for someone coming to help him that he stays until the other person needs to leave.  Tyler said he could stay late tonight. So. Joseph is still up there.
2:30-7am: 4 1/2 hours
3pm- midnight: 9 hours.


So, for the past 24 hours here is what he was doing:
House: 13 1/2 hours
Work: 8 hours
Sleep: 2 1/2 hours.

Not all of the days have been like this... this one definitely hits the ball out of the park. But, many days have been very close to this. This line from Princess Bride keeps running through my head:

"I have just taken 10 years of your life."

Next time you meet someone who'd like to do their own electrical, you just send them on over to us because we have a few things to tell them.

Or if you meet someone who is wondering what they could do to over-prepare to be a marine, tell them to do their own electrical .

 they delivered the rock =)

 new little deck off master

they switched out our laundry room door for the one with a bigger window, yay!

 platforms built out in theater! yay!

Alisha's awesome closet idea!

 Jimmy, our best friend ever. EVER.

bringing Joseph his dinner...

In other house news, we have a roofer. Cheer! Loudly. very loudly.
They cleared the snow and ice off the roof today. Wouldn't it be nice if they close it in tomorrow.
Insulation is done.
Final electrical inspection will be this week.
Stocking dry wall tomorrow or the next day and then dry wall starts going up (assuming the roofer is actually going to stay being our roofer)
They build our last deck off the master.
I have to pick garage doors. I'm trying to decide if they should be the accent color or the trim color. What a silly thing to have to think about. =/
I bought a great pile of very pretty lights for our house at a really cool barn. Grace loved the chandelier.

and there is so so so much more

A front door, a front porch, lots of wire and SNOW

front porch!

 We are going to have those two conjoined pillars separated.

 Look at all that wire....

Looking up where the slide will one day go.... =)

Loft looking into the master side. As I walked around with Elijah and pointed things out, he remarked, "How do you know this house so well! You know where everything is!"
ha.

 We are trying to decide what to do about the floating beam syndrome in the entry

 Yes, they are all ankle deep in the icy mud puddles.

Yes, they regretted it later.

 Jared Perkins came up AGAIN to help us for TWO days.... so so so thankful for his help!!! sososososossoossoosososososoosososo thankful!!! Grace is hanging with the electricians while they finally get a moment to eat lunch

 Does anyone else think those little skinny stilts are not strong enough to hold that deck?

 downstairs shower! Looks like someone took a mud bath in it already...

 DANGER a million home runs!!

 added double door into theater

 YAAAYYYYYAAAAYYYAYAA for a hobbit hole under the stairs!!!

 drinking fountain plumb in =)

 and yay for our front door!!

 this picture and the previous one were taken in quick succession-- game of tag in and around the house

 Look closely for one of our children being drawn to the pile of snow, looking out of the master

 deck off master-- deck does not exist yet =)

 master bath and shower

 someone took a mud bath in here too- jack and jill shower

 I documented this little gem because it shows how much my husband loves me... I asked for a switch in the hardest place...and he made it work...with his new oscillating saw.

 Jared hard at work!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Notice the 'Christmas' flavor glass off to the left. =\

 

someone found Joseph's care basket for all of his 2 A.M. work hours...

How is he smiling after his 18 hour work days???? What a champion. I'm so proud of Joseph.

happy Noelle

new front porch!

 hello again front porch

 Standing up there with railing one day will be slightly less exciting.

Sometime this week will be 4-way inspection. Our dreaded and blessed day of reckoning. With all the snow that has fallen since these pictures yesterday it will be super fun to see how they put a roof on this week. We are hoping for dry wall as soon as we ****pass***** 4 way. And then when it snows, it won't snow inside our house anymore.

hurray! Though my exclamation point is a little less perky and a little more desperate for a normal life again someday...  =)

After a quick dinner break and a few children playing on him (hence Kanga and Winnie the Pooh snuggled up with Joseph) my electrician fell asleep for 10 minutes before heading back up in the snow storm to keep working... we are both pretty excited to wrap this wire up!