Our House has Guts.

Happy New Year!!!

I don't really make resolutions for the year. I guess I made one last year, but that mostly involved a "dream board" and getting my husband to fall in love with me. It worked :)

This year, I think we both have the same goal(s) even though we haven't talked about it: Have baby and finish the house. In that order. Twelve days until the ETA! If he is on time...whatev. Moving on!

Our house is starting to look like a house! For the longest time it has just been the skeleton, but now there are pipes and water lines and electrical! Yes! The electrical is all finished!

Mud Room

Looking through the kitchen to My Honeypie wiring the electrical panel.

Dining room/Kitchen

Living Room

An upstairs picture. My sister-in-law wired the can lights for us. Yay!

 My Honeypie also punched out holes for the plumbing vents and tarred them up...this is what he looked like when he got home:

Apparently his trowel broke, so he used his hands...but I guess gasoline cleans everything off!

WINDOWS!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Can you feel my excitement?!

We got our windows yesterday!

This is how My Honeypie feels about that:

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and apparently, this is how I felt about it:

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 Here they are; 26 new, beautiful, double-pane, double-hung windows!

During our free quote the salesman actually stood on the window pane and lightly bounced on it...and it didn't break! So cool.

I'm obviously still so excited. This is going to weatherproof our house that much more! and make it look that much better. Yay!

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If any of you are looking to get windows, I highly recommend Window World (Home of the Original $189 Replacement Window!). The above window cost the same as all of the other windows. How rad is that? It's so huge!

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We have two of the so huge windows in our house. What's even more great about the new windows is they open more than the original ones!

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I can't wait until they are installed! It was $2,000 dollars less to install them "ourselves"--I'll just be watching mostly :)

In the midst of waiting for our windows My Honeypie has been working on the drainage for our plumbing. We got a lot of help from his brother, Mark, which is so appreciated! I have pictures, just not today.

Holla!

You Know How?

You know how there's that whole part in Beauty and the Beast? Where Beauty is in the library (at the beginning of the movie) on the ladder, and she rolls down the wall of shelves right before she's about to break into song?

Yup.

I decided that I want a library ladder...in my kitchen.

I'm a little ahead of myself yet again, but I like to have an idea in my head of what I want! We have almost got everything cleared out enough at our house to start doing the electrical and plumbing. Yay!