House update!

Finally I got the computer to work long enough to do an actual post on our house!  I'm so excited to have a house I can't even stand it. (literally I can't stand being in our apartment any longer and we leave just abut every chance we get!)  It feels like it is taking forever but the build time start to finish is only 96 days and we are on day 29 so I think I may just being a little dramatic:)  I can't believe how fast everything has gone since they started framing and they were actually set back by a couple days of bad weather!  I think they started framing on the 9thish or somewhere around there and are now finished. (except for a couple small things that they can't finish until more wood is delivered but I'm guessing that will happen tomorrow.  We went down tonight and were surprised to find that they had put in windows and even had our shingles on!  I didn't get any pictures before they started the upstairs because the weather was crappy so we didn't spend much time there other than to look around really quick.  All of this was done in less than a week so of course we had to go down almost every night just to see what they had done that day.

can't believe how different it looks with the roof on!

I was so happy when they put the stairs in so I didn't have to boost myself in. (or worse, have someone else boost me in!)  They also got the stairs going up and down in and we finally got to see what our upstairs would look like! 

Finally they finished the roof on the garage and surprised us when the windows were in and the roof was shingled!  It's so much warmer now that the windows are in! If only they would put the sliding door in the back to keep the wind out!

My dad and his wife were nice enough to come up last week and we were able to find the tile we will be using! I can't believe they will be laying the tile in about 3 weeks!

Not a super great picture but these are the exterior colors.  The stucco is a little darker than I think maybe I want now but oh well ha ha! I'm sure it will be fine (I hope:)  The lighter one is our trim and the other ones are the shakes, rain gutters and that jazz, and the garage door and the chunk of wood is what color my precious wood door that I'm so excited for will be!  Hopefully everything pulls together when it's all done.

The plumber will be starting the rough in plumbing tomorrow and Matt will start his HVAC on Wednesday and will be busy with that all week.  I'm not sure what else will be going on the rest of this week but the weather seems like it should be good so hopefully a lot gets done!

Moving Along. . .

               Here we are in April already and things are moving right along.  Baby Carter is now 25 weeks and seems to be growing like a weed or at least I am. (Easter candy is probably 90% to blame for that though!)  I forgot how much they start to grow right now and he has conveniently stretched himself into my rib cage making bending a little more awkward but luckily not necessarily painful quite yet.  I did my glucose test last week. I forgot how delightful that stuff is. . . NOT.  It's been a week and I haven't heard anything so i guess i can assume no news is good news right? 

25 weeks.
This picture doesn't really do it justice but it was the best i could do with my junky camera phone.  I've been feeling pretty bloated the last couple weeks but i know most of it is because of the large quantities of junk food I eat.  I feel so out of control with my sweets cravings with this baby and it's totally new to me because i wasn't a big fan of sugar when i was pregnant with Hayden.  Hopefully soon I can get a grip on myself!

                

                We had a great Easter weekend! (i will post pictures later) It was so nice to be able to be outside finally and spend time with the family especially my sister that moved away this morning:(  I've been trying to prepare myself.  I cried a lot of the way back from Delta last week and then last night I cried some more and then of course when they left our apartment this morning i bawled again.  I;m going to miss them soooo much.  I've tried to convince her to move in with us after our house is done but she isn't going for it:(  We have grown so close since they have been living in Provo and we haven't gone more than a couple days without seeing them since they moved here.  Hayden would be crushed if he really even knew what was going on.  He's pretty attached. (to the point that when he is mad at us because he got in trouble he starts yelling out their names to come save him)  The worst part is when I think about how close are babies are going to be and not be able to spend time together after they are born.  I really hope it works out for them but I hate not having them close to us.

             

                Happier news. . . our house is moving right along too!  I was pretty upset about the weather last Friday since a blizzard hit Spanish for and prevented them from framing that day:(  but today was perfect so we now have the framing done in our basement and main floor.  YAY!!!  I'm sure they will be doing the upstairs tomorrow.  I can't wait till they have the stairs done going up and downstairs because this whole climbing into our house thing is not so easy at 6 months pregnant especially since the baby is so low and likes to make it difficult for me to get myself into the main floor of our house. (yes i know it sounds crazy that our main floor is high enough to make it difficult to get up into)  The water level is too high where our lot is so they weren't able to dig the basement very deep so our main floor is pretty much the same height as our neighbors upstairs.  Matt should be starting the HVAC this week so it's going to be busy for him for the next little bit.  I feel pretty bad because he hurt his neck/back at work last week and is pretty much crippled but there's nothing he can do because he has to get it done and don't worry he went to the doctor today and of course when he needs it most the doctor wouldn't give him and pain medication.  I don't know how these drug seekers get so many meds when someone who is really needing them can't get any!  We are just praying it starts feeling better soon so it doesn't kill him this week but at least he will be close so me and Hayden can bring him lunch and Hayden can "help" on the house.  We got him a pail and a shovel to take with us because he likes "workin" just like daddy.  He also has some little tools i need to remember to take with us.  He loves going down to see the house and all of our friends.  It's been so fun for us to be able to go down and visit our friends so much. (they're probably sick of us dropping in but i'm excited to live so close!)  I will take some pictures tomorrow and post them before too much changes!