Easter...

We had a pretty quiet (yes, this weekend was quiet, despite how it sounds!) Easter this year, which was nice since we are without our house and usual routines.

On Saturday the neighborhood we are living in had a community egg hunt for all the kids.  It was free and the weather was nice, so we headed over there in the morning.  There were a ton of kids and it was HILARIOUS to watch the kids run out and pick up all the eggs (literally in less than 3 minutes!)

After the egg hunt we decorated some hard boiled eggs....

We went to B's parents and had lunch and then an egg hunt with Grammy...the kids are too fast to take pictures of when they are in the house, so I didn't get many shots that turned out.

Kids with their cousins.

Love how fancy schmancy C looks in his tie!  He called this is fancy shirt and has been asking to wear it for weeks!  Wear away little man.  LOVED H's dress, she has a coat to match the dress, but the weather was amazing on Sunday, so we went without!

I have some good friends who have a daughter a year younger than C, so we asked them over to Easter dinner at my parents house.  They are great people and Lena is so adorable and LOVES playing with H and C.  We hid eggs in the backyard for the kids and watched them hunt all over the place!  We almost lost 1 egg; who knew how hard it would be to keep track of 36 eggs, but thankfully Umpa looked harder than the rest of us and no eggs were lost!

Stuart Construction - Week 19

Week 19 - March 25-31, 2013

Whew, where have the last few weeks gone?!  Sorry to be so late.  I'll list what happened this week and then just show the pictures!

1) They finally put in the waterline to our refrigerator even though we mentioned it LONG before the drywall went up.

2) Finished up some of the tiling in the master bathroom and kids bathroom.

3) INSTALLED THE CABINETS!  I am soooo excited that our cabinets are in.  The kitchen cabinets look fantastic and I can't wait to see them against the dark hardwood floors.  They also installed the cabinets in the bathrooms.  I really like the color of them, and they look like a good quality that can withstand the kids!

I am now sure that I have enough cabinet and storage space in the kitchen!  I LOVE the tall pantry that we got with the cabinets; it has tons of shelves.  Plus I have the huge pantry.  I'm so excited to go on a shopping trip to The Container Store and get myself and the kitchen all organized!

 This is the cabinet in the Master Bathroom

Cabinets in the kids bathroom - plenty of space for the kids!

Stuart Construction - Week 18

Week 18 ~ March 18-24, 2013

Yea! They sprayed the texture this week, and man, is that humid and smelly.  It's awesome to see the texture up and see the walls taking shape and becoming less and less like a job site and more homey.

Ceiling in the entry way

Study

Looking to the study from family room

Master Bedroom, looking into bathroom

Ceiling in dining room

Looking from front door into house (family room)

Both shots of the kitchen.  Photo on the R is looking into eat in space and ceiling.

They started installing the floors in our bathroom as well as the kids bathroom, and they started the tile work this week too.  I'm not totally stoked about the vinyl floor in either bathroom, but it is what it is and we can upgrade the bathrooms in a few years.

Master Bathroom Floor

Kids Bathroom Floor

This is the tile work in the master bathroom.  Love the tile - until I can have this bathroom again, this tile and floor will do me just fine!

 Kids bathroom

This is the tile around the fireplace.  Love that it is a matte black that will match the counter tops in the kitchen.  Eventually we are going to add a mantle around this as well.

The other huge improvement and change this week was the installation of the hardwood floor.  It is site finished, so they install it and then as we get closer to finishing the house, they will come in and stain the floor.

Here's to progress continuing.  We are a bit behind, but as long as we still continue to see progress like this every week, all will be well in our household!

Happy Birthday B

My husband is such a wonderful friend, husband, father and provider.  He does so much for me and the kids, I am so happy that we have the life we have.  The house project has been so stressful for both of us, but substantially more for him than me.  He is constantly talking to our site supervisor, our builder, the city and county where we are building, everything; add on top of that he is living with his in-laws, and this man has it rough!

We got together with family last weekend to celebrate his birthday.  The kids and I made him a rainbow cake; it was a nice quiet day which was really needed after the last year that we have had.  Enjoy the pics (mostly, well, all of the yummy cake!!!)

Yep, I sure did put 33 candles on that cake! 

Happy Birthday to my best friend!  Thank you so much for all that you do...here's to a more calm year ahead!

Stuart Construction - Week 17

Week 17 - March 11-17, 2013

More of the same this week, they finished up with the drywall and finally mudded (is that even grammatically correct?!) the whole house.  I was amazed to walk into the house and see how much softer it looked when the mud had been put on, or when it was mudded.  Seeing the harshness both in feel and color of the screws and the corner bead being covered makes it look more homey to me.  B thinks I'm crazy - I told him I'm a girl and it's becoming a home, still a nasty dirty construction site, but more of a home.  Sorry no pics of that, but once they texture, I will post some pics.

They also finished up on B's shop this week. I was amazed at how quickly they got the shop done.  I guess when you are just putting up wood sticks and then covering that with metal siding and you don't have to worry about the electrical, plumbing, floor, etc, if it takes you more than a week we should be concerned!  I think this will be a fantastic place for B to teach our children about cars and a place for them to bond.  I am so happy that we were able to make this shop happen, it was such a big part of us moving, so being able to afford it right off the bat is so important to me.  It is a HUGE shop, 30x50, so B and our children should never run out of room out there with their car projects.  I love the copula on the top, and we got to pick what we wanted; what could be better than an antique car weather vein on top of the car shop?!