Washer and Dryer Hook ups

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

I have been without a working washer/dryer for 2 weeks.

Luckily my Mom is just down the street but I'm working at H&R Block again this tax season and my only day off is Wednesdays. It's hard to get our family of 7 laundry done in one day! In fact it usually takes up my entire day just doing that. 

I was getting ready to take the laundry down to my mom's again when Kory came home and stopped me. He said he was going to hook the washer up for me right then. He had hooked up the dryer earlier in the week after work because he knew it wouldn't take to long.

It took Kory and I from 9:30am to 3:00pm to "fix" the plumbing. 

We had to pull our kitchen cabinets away from the wall so Kory could get back there.   

And then it was like playing with legos. Trying to figure out which pieces of pvc pipe to use to make the correct shape and slopes for the washer and sink to use the new sewer line. It took a few mistakes like forgetting we needed a pea trap and having to do it over again. It was a bit frustrating. But he finally got it! Then we got to put the cabinet back and then hook up the washer. 

I love my laundry room!

It made me cry. 

I was able to actually wash our clothes from home. Granted it had only been 2 weeks. 

I loved being able to pull clothes out of the dryer and hang them up immediately. I haven't had a rod in my laundry room since we lived in Alton. More than 4 years ago! I have a room to seperate my laundry piles in  instead of on the bathroom floor or hallway. And I have a counter top to fold on and a place other than the floor to keep my baskets. 

It's amazing! 

The things we so often take for granted!

We need to install the door and put down the baseboards and then this room will be finished!

Saturday, March 2 2019

This past week Kory and Hunter were able to hang our laudry room door. 

And the 2nd bedroom closet door. 

It's coming! We were hoping to do baseboards and casings today but Kory got held up in Arizona and wont be making it home until this afternoon.  It's so nice to see changes again. I'm so ready to get this house done!!

Garage and new Sewer Line

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Our garage is a freakn' mess!

We've got wiring and plumbing supplies all over the place. Kory's tools scattered here and there. Then we've got piles of 2x4's, 2x6's in different lengths. We've got doors, sheetrock, OSB and insulation piles all over the place. We can't put a car in the garage and with the weather lately we're having to defrost every vehicle in the mornings before being able to go anywhere. Hunter's had driver's ed at 6. Maddie has jazz band at 6:30. I know I'm just being lazy not wanting to go out and start the dang car 5-10 min before I have to. It's still dark cold and icy. 

Maddie has volleyball tournaments everyother weekend. This was a weekend we were going to be home so the girls and I tackled the gargage while the boys worked on getting the new water/sewer line hooked up at the street. 

We re-stacked wood, compiled supplies into one box, swept and swept and swept!

It looks pretty dang good. 

The best part is that I can park 1/2 the van inside the garage now. 

I'm sure it looks weird from the street but I really don't care. 

Baby steps..... It will one day be done. 

Meanwhile outside these guys were playing in the mud!

Seriously it was a soupy, muddy mess. 

By the end of the day. We had it!

The new sewer line is all hooked up and ready to go. 

Yay!!!!

Gas line has been moved

It's been over a year since we began knocking down walls.

 In fact this picture was taken Jan 8, 2018

It was cooler in the mornings it was January afterall. But most of my pictures are jacket's free!

We were very blessed for awesome temperatures last year. 

This January 2019 has been pretty wet. It seems like it's raining, cloudy, windy and cold. 

The next project on the house is to switch over to the new plumning/sewer.

So the first Saturday, February 2nd we were suppose to be rain free. Maddie and I were up north at one of her volleyball tournaments so we weren't around to help. 

Cody Goodfellow came over with his backhoe and helped dig. We had all the new plumbing and gas line ran inside the house just needing to get it to the street now. Kory was able to move the gas meter from the front of the house (almost by the front door) closer to the edge of the house. 

It seriously took all day long! Once the gas line was moved Kory and Cody started working on the plumbing. Unfortunately they hadn't dug quite deep enough and they needed either dug up the asphalt road or dig a tunnel underneath. Knowing he probably would need more parts they called it a day. 

While Kory and Cody were outside.....

My Dad and Hunter were inside hooking up the water heater to the new gas line. Since they moved it we were without water most of the day. So happy they were able to get it all hooked up in one day. 

More Laundry Room

Saturday January 12, 2019

About 2 weeks ago Kory brought home the last cabinet for my laundry room.

It looks great!

We also now have the granite counter top on. 

I love it!

A week later and those uppers are still empty!

Whatever will I put in there?

Our new washer and dryer were also delivered!

Can hardly wait to get those bad boys hooked up and beable to use them.

Can't wait for this room to be completely functional. 

It's nice to see another room coming together so nicely!

Laundry Room

I hate our current bedroom!

It is ALWAYS a disaster. 

Our room has become the room that EVERYTHING gets put in that doesn't have a current home and can't go outside in the shed or garage. I've got all our bathroom supplies and laudry room supplies and other stuff in my room!

This is the view from my doorway. 

Eeeek! Don't judge me.

I sleep on the "other" side of the bed and seriously most nights have to turn sideways to get over there. I hate it! We've got our luggage, Kory's massage table, the laser, vacumn and our dresser right there at the end of our bed. 

 Once I get to my side of the bed I've got a nightstand, my hope chest a bin of "summer" clothes for Brayden and Kylie, a box of future friend gifts, a box of birthday bags and tissue box, Kory's massage chair holds my basket of shoes and then a box of books. 

Back to Kory's side of the bed he has a dresser and a plastic box of mementos his mom and dad has sent us from their different missions. There's some candles in there that I know will melt if they get taken to the shed. So it's here. 

On the other side of that dresser I have 3 big black bins. They've got curling irons, extra toothbrushes, laudry detergent, curlers, bandaids, etc. Basically everything you'd find in a bathroom and laundry room. It makes it super hard to get to our clothes hanging up! We can't reach them. 

After a few hours of moving most of that stuff into the laundry room and then cleaning my room I love it! We've still got piles of "stuff" but it's much more managable in my room now. 

So excited I can now walk freely around my bed and get to the closet!

In our "moving" in we discovered over 20 bottles of conditioner but no shampoo.

We've also got 27 containers of clorox wipes

Wow! 

I think we've got our year suply. 

 Love, love, love that this stuff has a new home!

Merry Christmas to Me!

It's a late Christmas present to me!

I am so excited!!!

Kory and Hunter installed my laundry room cabinets for me today!

I've been at a church function all day and came home to this.

I can hardly wait to fill those drawers and cabinets!

I was so excited it actually brought tears to my eyes.

I can hardly wait to "move in". It's going to be a process so I'm choosing to wait until Monday!

Garage Lights and Roof

We've taken a little bit of a break these past 3-4 weeks. We are tired! With Christmas I just didn't want to work on the house. I wanted to decorate for the holiday, make treats, watch Christmas movies and just enjoy the holiday. So we did. And it's been great!

Saturday, Dec 28 2018

Several of Kory's brothers and sister's came to help with some odd's and end's. 

Heather & Jim, Holly &Tim finished installing all the canned lighting in the garage and getting them all wired together. 

The teenage boys, Hunter, Kyle and Orrin with Uncle Kevin's help hung the OSB on the front porch. They were so fast I didn't get a picture of them working. 

Grandpa Heaton and Kirk helped Kory on the roof. Our goal was to finish the roof. We've got some storms coming and we don't want nor need any leaks!

Harmony, Dustin and I with Kory's help worked on the ground. We were cutting the roof metal and handing it up for the guys NOT afraid to be on the roof to lay it for us. 

 It was such a cold, cold day! Kory's siblings live in Alton, Panguitch, Antimony and Heber. Places that are suppose to be so much colder than Hurricane! This day every single one of them said it was colder at our place than their own. What is wrong with that? Despite the coldness we finished the roof as much as possible. So thankful for their help!