Out of Order 2-25

I didn't realize that I had skipped a day of progress.  These are from 2-25.  I realized when looking at pictures of someone else that is currently building a house, that I just keep taking pictures of the same outside view, none inside.  And it's now or never, so I figured I should take some so I wasn't sorry some day.  Plus I'm sure the kids will love looking back at it too since they've loved this whole building process.  Some windows went in today and the rest should go in tomorrow and then our roof should go on and our doors should go in next week.  Before we started framing, we picked out all of our exterior stuff and this week we finalized our cabinet selections and interior doors.  And then in a few weeks we pick out flooring and countertops.  Baumann definitely makes the whole process very easy and stress-free!

 

Layla posing at the house...

 2-25 view...

 Our garage...we had them frame the top of the garage like it is so that we can use it for storage and at some point, make it into a bonus room.

 Standing in what I think will be her room, although recently I've been doubting our selection of who gets what room. 

 People often say what a mini Joe he is and I normally don't see it, but here I think he looks a lot like Joe's pics from when he was a kid.

 Gibs having fun running circles in our laundry room...

 Standing in what we're planning (I think) to be his room...(it's really going to throw Gibson and Layla off if we switch them!  His room is by far the biggest of the three)

 Our bedroom (I had just yelled at Layla for sticking her foot off the edge of the house, I think she thought the green plastic stuff was a wall and it freaked her out when I told her not to do that so she was still recovering here)...

 Grandpa and Grandma showed up to see the house while we were there.  The stairs to go up are to the right of them, the living room is behind them and the kitchen is to their left.  The dining room is the other window you see on the left back and there is a playroom for the kids in the front right of the house.  All of our bedrooms are upstairs.

 Standing in the entrance from the garage to the mud area.  There is a closet to the right of them as well as a space for lockers, and a half bath to the left of them.  The laundry is behind Joe and we have a side casual entrance to the left of Joe.  I am excited to be able to put Elvis on his line out the main level of our house:).  Of course I'm excited for other things about the house too:).  We can't afford to build our dream house, but overall, I feel like we were able to get a lot of things that we had wished we had at our old house.  My top faves would be a mud area, main floor laundry, a walk in pantry, and a closet and a bench with hooks area by our front door.  They are typical things in a new house but things that we didn't have before!

 A family pic in our soon to be front door, poor Miss Grets was sleeping in the car:(...

 Gavin and his fam also showed up while we were there. With all the visitors there, I got distracted and almost lost track of time and I had a pot pie in the oven.  We made it back about 10 minutes late but thankfully dinner was still good and not ruined! :)  Here are the kids in the kitchen pantry...

Sunny Thoughts

We are all ready for some warmer/sunnier weather here!  The kids this morning put their sunglasses on along with Gibs' shirt from Hawaii and Layla's necklace from Hawaii (since Grampy and Gigi just got back yesterday) and Greta of course also wanted sunglasses on:). 

The kids were pretending to have a tea party yesterday and Gavin and Greta thought they'd be goofy when I wanted to take a pic:).

February 26

They got the porch started and some boards on the roof.  Hopefully that'll keep some of the snow out! :)

Giada

Tuesday at preschool was a day to dress up like what they want to be when they grow up.  I first was going to have her dress up like a doctor because she loves all things medical, but then thought that being a chef/baker was more fitting for her because almost every day, at some point, she pretends to make food.  She LOVES watching Food Network, especially the "girl shows":).  Giada from Giada at Home is definitely her favorite.  She loves pretending to host her own cooking shows, so she went dressed as a host of her own show...

 They could bring their "tools of the trade" with them, so she took along a bowl and a wisk and such and on the bag had a little sign that said her cooking inspiration is Giada:).

Such a Big Girl

Grets has been getting so big and is still so sweet yet so silly.  Last night Layla was dancing around in fancy shoes, so Greta went over to Layla's shoe bin and pulled out a pair of dance slippers that she tried to put on herself.  So cute how she wants to be just like her big sis:).  Greta and I stayed home from church this morning due to her snotty nose and I thought it was funny that her and Elv were sitting in this little chair together (and that she took her socks off and then wanted these shoes on:D).  Elv just had his FIRST haircut since we moved (last summer!) so he is now so shaved that he shivers without his sweater on:).  Thankfully he had one here.  I should have gotten a picture of him before his haircut b/c he looked like quite the shaggy dog!!

 My dad and Joyce are in Hawaii (which with all this snow, it has been SO nice to be able to park in the garage, especially on mornings that I have to load up the kids to take Layla to school) so we let them play the piano today for a bit.  Layla always asks, but obviously, that would be a bit annoying to my dad and Joyce if they were here, so normally I don't let them.  You can't see it, but Gibs has a microphone in his hand.  They can certainly make a lot of  noise!  As you can guess, this did not last all afternoon:).  Even Greta thought it was fun though!  As loud as they were, it's so cute to see how happy they were singing and playing, and it's also amazing, as a mom, how easily I've learned to tune things out:).

 Tonight after baths, they had popcorn and a movie before bed (on my computer since there's no DVD player down here).  We only have two little comfy chairs (Layla and Gibs got them for Christmas) and as soon as I moved them infront of the computer, Greta quickly climbed right in.  I thought that would cause issues, but Layla happily took a "non-comfy" chair and put her pillows on it to make it comfy and said it was even comfier than the other two:).  Such a nice big sis!

 Greta lately does this big smile face all the time, it cracks us up!

Second Floor

The second floor is now framed!!  More progress, whoohoo! :)

3 Days

It's amazing to me how quickly they can frame a house.  Today was the third day they worked on our house and the first floor is about framed.  We've been driving out to see the progress after Joe gets home from work which has been earlier now that he just this week started a new job that is much closer to our house.  I never pictured him working close to home (what are the chances that you find a job that fits you that is close by?), but it worked out that way and now is actually quite handy. 

 The kids get very excited to see the house, but tonight got cold quite quickly and couldn't wait to get back into the warm car!  I'll be happy when the weater warms up and the snow goes AWAY!