Back Patio

Friday, June 21st

We worked really hard each night this week getting ready for concrete and doing more wiring upstairs. To say our family is tired is an understatement. We're tired of working on a daily basis, tired of living in a construction zone, tired of the constant messes, tired of living on top of each other and out of boxes. tired of turning down friends when invited to do "fun" things because we are always "working on the house". We are just TIRED! And so this week when we were invited to go to the cheap theater and see Dumbo and then to dinner on Thursday night we said, Yes! We worked a little longer Mon-Wed evenings and the kids helped a little better knowing our reward was coming Thursday night.  And what a great night it was! 

Friday morning, the cement truck was suppose to come at 6:30am. At 6 we got the text the cement truck wouldn't be there until 10. And then at 7:30 I heard the truck arrive! Not sure what happened! But glad it came. 

Kory had an install that morning and had left thinking the truck wasn't coming until 10. Luckily, our concrete guy had brought his Dad and an employee to help. Near the end Kory was able to make it back to help a little bit. He just left his guys on the job site to keep working while he came back to help. 

Oh my goodness it looks good. We decided to run it the whole span of the house and a little wider than we had originally thought. And so it ended up being 10ft wide by 50ft long. We are going to love it! One day when the inside is more complete we will build the awning that will go overhead. I'm already dreaming of our outdoor kitchen, eating outside and just sitting and watching my kids jump on the trampoline, running on the future grass and playing basketball. 

One day..... 

Saturday June 22nd 

Oh how it's getting hotside! It is time to buckle down and get insulation. There's just a handful of things that need to get done before we can do that. I havn't had a phone/camera this week and I don't take selfies anyways but the girls and I were able to finish wiring all the can lights on Saturday while Kory, Hunter and our friend Daniel started on the plumbing and framed in our attic storage area. 

Kory started on the plumbing. He was installing the pvc pipe that will be the vent for the upstairs bathroom. Once he got going he realized he wasn't going have the right parts to finish it that day.  So he did what he could and then he moved on. 

Then we began on the attic!

Kory framed up the 2 walls.  We cut more foam boards and shot them to the back of the framed wall just so our storage area will be insulated too. And this will keep all the "blown in" insulation out of our way and in the actual attic. Eventually Kory will build a total of 3 cabinets and he'll install them where he framed them in.  Below is the the finished, cleaned up project. On this side of the stairs we will have a total of 3 cabinets.  On the other side of the stairwell we will only have one cabinet. We ran out of day light and energy to do that side. We also realized we need to pull a few more strands of wire that we'll need for the kitchen and shed outside. We want to get that done before we close off the storage area. We are also about out of wire. So we took off to Home Depot to grab some. They were out! For reals? The Home Depot across town was also out! The next closest one would have been in Cedar and we didn't want to go that far and they would have been closed by the time we got there anyways. And so we didn't get as much done as we would have liked on Saturday but we did get a good day's worth of work done. It's one more day closer anyways....... 

We have to keep telling ourselves everytime we work on the house that it's 2 or 8 hours less of work to do then if we hadn't worked at all. Both Kory and I were feeling a little discouraged Sunday morning. We worked all day the day before and we had a friends help! Yet it looks like so little had been accomplished. We both know we are getting closer and closer but we still have so much to do. Sometimes I wonder if it ever will be done......

Side Note:
It's been hard to take pictures lately. A month ago I put my phone on the charger. After a few hours I went in to grab it. It was super hot and the phone wouldn't turn on. Pretty sure it got fried! So Kory ordered me a new phone. I just went without for a few days. New phone came and I quickly discovered that the dang phone wouldn't hold a charge. After responding back and forth with the seller I was finally told to send it back. And so I continued to go without a phone. I still don't have a phone today. Just waiting on my refund before purchasing a different one. And so our pictures lately are curtesy of my girls and their ipod's!