Is slow- but we are making it.

The floors are about as level as they will be

The downstairs bathroom is framed in

We are drawing out diagrams to permantly decide where fixtures will be (this is my favorite part and something I can actually help with!)

It feels good to be at this point!

Don’t tell anyone but I have already purchased and consumed (with help) a bag of Christmas candy…

And everyone who is serving our country today

 

 

This past weekend was Lincoln’s baptism.  My mother had made the gown out of her wedding dress, and everyone except for Janelle and Bryan made it for the baptism.  I didn’t get pictures of everyone, but here is what I (or who ever had my camera) did capture!

ETA:  I have to find out how I can let you click on the picture/collage to see it bigger

ETA2: N ow you should be able to click on the small picture to see it bigger!

Then have the flu…  Because I work in a place where people have been known to hand their phones over saying “it just stopped working.” 

Which isn’t a big deal, until you pull the battery out (number one thing to do if your phone stops working- it resets it with the network) and the water is still dripping out of the back. 

So you say well, there appears to be some water damage.

To which the customer answers, “well, I dropped it in the toilet.”

And you are thinking- thank you for that, you could have just told me and I wouldn’t have had to touch your phone to diagnose the issue.

We go through bottles of hand sanitizer.  And lately, more than ever for me.  I’m terrified of getting the flu.  So I’d rather have my hands dry than get sick. 

 

As an FYI to anyone that uses cellphones, if your phone by chance does get water damaged, you can try the trick of putting it in a bowl of rice to dry it out.  That is the only solution that I know of that can work.  If it was anything other than water, you are probably out of luck.

Just don’t blast a hair dryer at it, or run it through the dryer, or as one of our customers recently did- don’t put it in the oven to dry it out…  But if for some chance you decide to try that, don’t forget about it once it’s in the oven!!!

And if you bring your phone in that you recently dropped in the toilet, please just let the representative know that.   Spare our hands!

When it’s snowing outside…  that was my thought last night, but this morning when the sun came out the heat went right back off.  And I am sitting here in a tank top, content as can be.

The oven’s been on all day- that warms the apartment far more effectively than the heaters sometimes.  And that could explain my choice of attire.

Or it could be that I’m pregnant.  I may not mind this winter so much afterall- I dread being cold all the time.  :) 

And just a fair warning- for the next six months this blog may have nothing other than talk about being pregnant and waiting for my sweet baby to arrive and the house.  Can’t say you didn’t know!

Remember these pictures?  Here is what our kitchen looks like now:

This is what you can see from the front entrance:

The table is the last thing that we have to decide what to do with- oh, and get rid of the fridge.  Sick nasty thing that has tons of bottles in it still. 

And here is the view from the living room.  We are thinking that we will put our cabinets on this wall.  Sort of bottom and top with a view inbetween…

 

And here I am in all my 12 weeks along pregnant glory.

I will get a full body one when my husband is around to take it! :)  I’m due at the end of April and we are very excited.  And hungry.  ALL. THE. TIME.  (Or at least the baby and I are!)

I was going to show you how far we have come on the house- you can really see the potential now- but I am not sure where my camera is.

It may be in Aaron’s truck and since he’s out at the house- no pictures.  But I can tell you about it.  We decided that we are going whole-heartedly into this project.  All the trash is gone- all the burnables anyway, the drywall is well on it’s way to being completely gone also.

Aaron decided (and I agree) that we will both feel safer if we rewire the house- it was a little sketchy.  While we are at it, we are going to redo the plumbing and the insulation.  Might as well do it right the first time right?

So he’s been out there most nights- when he’s not studying.  And there is a huge difference which I’ll show you as soon as I have my camera.  Me, I mostly sit at home.  I would love to be out there ripping out drywall also but I’m a little nervous of what that would do to the baby inside of me.  So I go out there everyonce in awhile and wear a dust mask while I’m there.  And recruit people to help since I can’t!

It has been one year since Jay, Aaron’s Dad, passed away. 

We miss him everyday.

 

We have had a lot of windy, rainy weather lately.  Fall has definitely come and there is snow in the forecast for Saturday!

One of the windier days, Cari and I went to our grandparents.  The waves had died down a bit from earlier but it was still cold!

I mentioned that I have a new nephew.  This is Lincoln Jeffrey, Michelle and Chad’s.  He’s an absolute doll.

I was lucky enough to spend a couple days down there.

Also spent some time with my other siblings (the ones not too busy to stick around :))  We made it to the cider mill.  That’s one thing I wish we had around here.

We also made it to the park.

We had a little race course for the girls that they went around.

And it was my wonderful mother’s birthday on Monday.

That’s when I came back up and wow did Aaron get a lot done on the house while I was gone!  We are still a long way from living in it but it’s looking better!