so close to done

one month later

so here we are on night 5 in our new house. not quite done, but livable. i have no kitchen sink or real counter tops. but i have ply wood and half the house is heated. it's so gorgeous!sigh soon i will post pics. and christmas was good. but i'm off to get some sleep. soooo tired from unpacking. yawn!

by the end of the week

so by the end of the week my kitchen will have gorgeous chocolate bamboo flooring and my upstairs will all be drywalled and ready for paint. more pictures to come. everyone get ready for a new years house warming!

getting closer

the kitchen: will we painted by next week.wow!

our room: will be drywalled by the end of next week!

parental guilt

so feeling slightly guilty but not too bad. we took Tavin for his circumcision this morning. he did really well considering what was happening to him. i thought i did well even being in the room considering i can't watch any of that operation Dr type stuff. brock watched the whole thing and found himself cringing for Tavin. i said it was better to do now then when he's 14, then he'd really hate us. mom said he's gonna hate us at 14 anyways so we could have used it as a threat or punishment. now what act would require that as a consequence. hhhhhmmmmmmm.

welcome little man

so yesterday after a whopping 25min of labour, (oh my goodness! that was a little crazy i must say! )we welcomed tavin brock griffin to our family. 9lbs 6oz and 22 inches. i'm not really sure where he was all hiding in me, but it does suddenly explain alot of the strange discomfort and movements i never really had with the much smaller baby girls we have. so far we're all doing well. i was discharged from the hospital not 24 hrs after his birth, which was good cause my room mate had a fussy little girl so we didn't sleep at all last night. so here's to hope of some decent sleep tonight.

one week

well here we are, one full week past due. ugh. today's my NST: non stress test, for the baby. and if nothing happens i'm supposed to be induced on wed, so on the bright side i should only be pregnant for 3 more days regardless. sigh. feeling very discouraged being this over due. but i did get an actual weekend of rest, aside from all the walking, raspberries and contractions. my in laws took the girls for 2 nights in great hope that all my contractions would lead to prince humperdink's arrival. my parents are home from the funeral of my grandpa and learned something new. apparently his name wasn't really Henry as we had all believed, it was Heinrich, much more german. mom wanted to know if we were gonna name the babe Heinrich now, HA! if she only knew what we were planning. ha ha ha! come on baby!

the week ahead

so the fun part is that brock and brent got the stairs done going from the main floor to the upstairs on sat. no more climbing ladders and trying to fall down 2 stories, bonny! the sad, in the loss way, of the week is that my grandfather passed away this morning. but he was 89 and is now at peace. also little man who has no name is due tomorrow. no sign of him yet but i am hope full it will be this week. kinda crazy since my parents will have to be in Sask for a funeral and i have to stay home to give birth. talk about the changing of the guard. so here's to a crazy week ahead! may God be in it all.

more pics

the view from our new tv room into the existing basement the new tv room

the dining rroom into the living room

the living room into the kitchen

such a pretty out side

the house is all one open house now. ooooohhhh aaaaahhhhhhh!

quick update

feeling stupid exhausted today for no good reason other than being ridiculously pregnant. but the house is looking great! from the front it looks like a real house with siding and everything, and they are knocking through the walls from the existing house to the addition this week, and finishing the siding on sat. thank God for no snow yet!!as brent put it " the house has gone from a cabin to a home. feeling excited. as for baby he has dropped like crazy person but stan still said "see you next week!" sigh.

friday

ah the view to my room. haven't even been in it yet.for some funny reason i won't climb the ladder to the second floor 36 weeks pregnant.

wednesday

so my bedroom should have all the framing done today and the sheeting tomorrow. woo hoo!

but i seem to have lost my front yard from the giant dirt pile from the excavating. oh well, next summers project.

monday

potential counter and flooring in kitchen & assembly hall=)

so all the men in my life are working like little beavers this week. my husband, dad and in laws have all taken the week off to frame in the addition. so i'm hoping to daily add pics of the progress this week. the goal is to have the roof on on sat. as long as the weather holds we should be alright. please God.

finally

the first pic is our old kitchen, now stripped bare and the second one is the pump truck the day we poured the basement walls. next week i should have pics of the addition being framed! we have our phone and Internet back! woo hoo. talk about feeling a bit like you lost your toe or something. annoying but not enough to stop the wold from functioning. however they still can't figure out our e-mail. so hopefully tomorrow. otherwise, telus will be getting a nasty phone call. ugh.

this time next week

so we now have the basement walls poured, and it went relatively uneventfully. one corner did crack and it was a quick jump into the hole to stop the concrete from pouring out. but tonight the forms come off and soon the framing will begin. so hopefully this time next week i should have the kitchen walls and maybe even my bedroom framed. now it should get exciting. if only i weren't so very tired and hugely pregnant. i need a nap. again.

eventually

so we're in week 3 of no Internet, i'm on my dad's computer posting right now. so here's the update. we're in my parents basement and it's going just fine. the girls are starting to adjust. alarielle had a rough go if it the past 2 weeks, but we're settling in. FINALLY got the van fixed and i am back driving my mom bus. as nice as it was to drive a Pontiac g6 for a week, i really do love my van. mark's house is clean, empty and returned to him. woo hoo! moving while pregnant?.....i do not recommend it. but YOU ROCK to all who helped move and clean. i seriously couldn't have done it without you! so THANK YOU!!!! the house in stony has the excavating done and we're in the process of framing the basement walls so that they can be poured monday afternoon. so this time next week, i could have a basement. very exciting. my dad is building my kitchen cabinets for us, woo hoo, and has a line on getting all the supplies wholesale. that would just rock! i'm pretty much done at work. i have about 6 shifts left over the next 3 weeks. so it does feel good to wake up with out a mission right now, but give me 2 weeks i'll be going nuts. so life is gaining some sort of normalcy to it and it feels good. so now i just get to gestate for another 6 weeks and all chaos should break loose again!

on any other day....

i could have coped if maybe i weren't pregnant and moving and renovating. but today was not a good coping day. i got the cold shoulder from someone and it really bugged me; naestra has a black eye, diaper rash that makes her cry and a cold; alarielle is getting the cold and i had to pick her up a ventilator and mask today, looks so sad on her; and i messed up on the who was watching the kids today so they came to work with me and melted so i had to cancel and go home. ugh. i'm done.

so tired

well, i now have a red front door( so gorgeous!),and black trim windows, a black deck and back door, no kitchen cabinets and no stove and a huge hole cut in the floor for new stairs, another 2 loads moved over and a new toilet seat. not bad for the first day. p.s. happy birthday alarielle!!!!!

day one

so today was "moving day". or at least the start of it. and let me send a HUGE shout out to my husband, in laws and friends who helped. you guys rocked the move. got half the house moved in one day. amazing. so now it's rest, rest, and sleep. soooooo tired. but brock and carolyn have a busy day of removing siding and kitchen cupboards tomorrow. i will be trying to find my kitchen and living room at marks house.

standing on the edge

so monday at 12:00 we get the keys to the house. dun dun dun dun. 90% excitement, 10% sh*&ing my pants. so after a fun filled morning, ( found a new comfoter, bed skirt and 2 shams for $10! thats right, bed in a bag for ten dollars. ) i spent the afternoon and evening totally exausted and sorting out more and more crap. but i got 5 more bags of garbage to haul away this weekend. and on monday, move all the outside crap and toys. then alarielle turn 4 on tuesday! and boy has she turned in to a little girl over the summer. wow. but more and more fun every day!