Fluffing the Nest

I've been busy settling into the new place. We don't have much left to do, just personalizing a bit. Nancy and Marie helped me get some pictures up. I can hang them, it's just a matter of how to arrange them that I have issues with and I wanted to do a wall with family pictures. So, after much deliberation, they decided to take my pictures and re-frame or re-size some to make them arrangable on the wall. I love it!

This is in my hallway

This is in my living room (there are two frames that don't have pictures in them yet,just the one that comes in the frame, they have photos in them now though)


We have metal shop doors in our house, since it's a shop house and we didn't really have much choice. I found magnet curtain rods at good ole' Wally World and some curtains that help to shade the west window and the back door, as well.

House Updates

A lot is happening, FINALLY, at our place. The last few days have been VERY productive!! YAY!! It's nice to see progress! Dennis and my Dad knocked out a bunch of stuff on Saturday. Dennis took today to work on the laminate flooring. In fact, some of the pictures of the laminate were taken two different times today, so you can see they got a lot of it done. They still have the remaining parts of the bedrooms and the transition pieces to do. The picture of the tile was taken this morning before it had grout, too. They ran out of grout, so they'll finish that tomorrow and the trimwork will start tomorrow as well. Now, if we can just get it all to fall into place that all the people can get out to do their jobs to finish, preferably THIS WEEK! I'm not pushing my luck, though. I'm planning to do clean up this weekend, probably not going to be ready to move in just yet. But, we're getting very close now!

Early Spring

Yes, my kid is wearing a head band, he put it on himself and it was too funny! He wears Daddy's hats, why not my head band?

We've been enjoying the nice weather and the last couple evenings, Cooper and I have been to our place to play. Cooper gets to ride on the tractor with Daddy and I walk around picking up bits and pieces that the guys have missed from the building project. The project is still slow! I am so ready to be out there, it's so nice and quiet and this weather makes me excited to start my garden soon!
Enjoy the pics!!

Happy Valentine's Day

I know I haven't posted in a while, we've been enjoying the nice 70 degree weather after we had all that ice the last time I posted. We even had tornadoes to the north of us, luckily most of it when around us. What crazy Oklahoma weather we have!

I hope you are having a wonderful Valentine's Day! Dennis and I did our "date" last night. Our church youth had a parents' night out raising money for camps, so we took advantage of that and hung out with some other parents that took their kids, we had so much fun! It was great to talk with adults and get to know some other couples better, plus Pictionary is just hilarious with our crazy group! Cooper likes all the goodies that come with valentines, he had his KDO Valentine party on Thursday which consisted of bringing home a huge bag of candy and cookies after they stuffed their faces with some of it there. It was fun to watch, though! Today, Dennis is working, so me and my little valentine are just chilling out at home. In fact, he's throwing his bouncy ball at me and tormenting Harry dog, so we're having fun.

On another note, our building project is coming along, although slowly. We have our heat/air and electrical ready, alarm system going in this week, and we are waiting on a plumber to finish some things so we can get an inspection. Hopefully (I know I always say that), we will see sheet rock going up by next weekend.

Building Updates

Well, a lot of progress has been made at our building recently!! The metal building is finally finished, the framing of the apartment is done, too. The electric wiring is almost complete, we have a septic tank, and we have a driveway in front of our building instead of a big mud hole now. All of this has been done since last weekend! It's really starting to come along and we're getting so excited for it to be ready to move in! I don't have any recent pictures at the moment, but will post some of the inside and out soon.

Framing

Dennis and his crew worked this past weekend on more framing. They got a lot done!! There are just a few small things left to frame and we are waiting on trusses for the front open living area in the front. I am already trying to figure out where to put everything, of course, it's hard to visualize without seeing sheetrocked walls and all. We still have no roof on our building, that crew was scheduled to come out on Saturday and Sunday to work since they are way behind and something about 20 mph winds trying to hang metal kept them from working. We do have all but one piece on the side. So, there is still a way to go, hopefully at the end of the week (when things thaw out here), they will start again.

This is a view of what's been done, looking from our front door.

Slowly Moving Along

Framing day 1- Dennis, Darian, Taylor, and Al working on the south wall- they had to recruit extra help to lift it up and they spent a good part of the day on this one.



Framing day 2- The other big wall is done and some of the inside ones-yay!


Okay, so it seems like this building is taking that crew for-ev-er to build. With delays from wind and apparently short work days, it's not near as far as we had expected at this point, but it is coming along. We need a roof and metal on the end of the east side and the north end and our trim and roll-up doors. Dennis decided to go ahead and start framing in our house part since we had a mild weekend (for December, anyway. He had help, of course (thank you all, by the way). Our plumbing fixtures are here now and our appliances are being delivered TOMORROW!! We have plans to store them until we can lock the shop. We had planned on it being ready to at least store those things by now. But, things don't always go as planned, so we're improvising for the moment. We are soooooooooo ready to get moved in!!!

Okay, so I've decided that when the building is done, I'm going to try to figure out how to do a slide show that goes fast, so it looks really cool, like they do on the Extreme Home Makeover show. Anyway, we have walk-through doors and windows in. It looks like they are starting on the roll up doors, which means the metal will be hung very soon! Yay!

Cooper has discovered this door on the TV cabinet that he tries to get in, unsuccessfully, so he just plays with the DVD cases and puts his cars in there.

Building Update

After a little bit of delay due to some adjustments with the metal and some rainy weather, it's still coming along quite nicely. We hope to see some windows go in this week and hanging sheet metal next week.

Goin' Up!

Our building is really progressing now! Windows are supposed to be installed tomorrow, hopefully and the shop is on schedule to be finished by the end of next week!! That is, as long as everything stays on track.

Moving Dirt

Dennis managed to borrow the dozer and the operator this weekend, so they have been working on filling in the low spot in the front corner of our property near the intersection of the roads. They had moved and piled a lot of dirt from doing the pad, so they have knocked those piles down and are filling in with that dirt, sloping it to drain off, so we won't have a low spot there anymore-Yay! So, now, what will be our front yard, is looking much larger than it did before and it's really improved the appearance of the property.

Progress!!

Okay, we finally got the slab poured yesterday! It was too wet after all the rain last week, but the nice windy weekend did a great job getting it dried up quickly. Here are some pics I took. I got to add my own touch, too, by writing our name in the concrete.

In the Trenches....

Dennis and the guys got a lot of work done this weekend. They had a few setbacks with rented equipment issues, but still managed to get everything done that they wanted to on Saturday and Sunday. Our slab is scheduled for Wednesday and our building will start going up in a couple of weeks. We will get our electric lines in, plumbing tied in, and a septic system set up in the next couple weeks, too. It's starting to look like we are really building there, as opposed to just moving a bunch of dirt around. Cooper and I had to go out and inpect the situation, give it the Cooper seal of approval yesterday. I think it passed :)

Poppy came out to play in the dirt!


Cooper is our job boss, checking everything out in the wagon


Our pad is ready for our slab to be poured on Wednesday!


Trenching is open and ready for the electric lines to be put in and buried

The water line is buried and ready to be tied in



Check out the chain on the trencher! I think they worked it too hard!

Building Progress

As you can see, it's at least beginning to look like there is something going on at our land. Hopefully, we will have a slab at the end of the week, that is if the weather is cooperative. It's a little soggy in parts still, we need some more dirt in the front by the corner, but we are mainly concerned about the building area right now. I think the pond work in the back and filling in the low spot up front will end up being a spring project.
I have a great idea for an old pickup truck Dennis has out there, it has no bed, but I was thinking if he made a bed for it, I could plant flowers in it and decorate it for all the seasons. How cute would a scarecrow be in the front seat with hay, pumpkins, and mums in the back!?! I know, I get a little carried away with the flowers, I really miss that about having a house.
Anyway, I'll keep posting on our progress, hope we can have Christmas there, if not Thanksgiving!

Dirt Work

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Here are some pictures of what our land looks like right now. I wish I had remembered to take photos before they began clearing all the overgrown stuff out of the corner and filling in the "pond" thing we had in the front corner. There is still a way to go, but it has come a long way, too. It looks completely different and now I think it looks like ten acres, where it didn't so much before. That's Dennis on the tractor. As soon as he saw me pull in, he drove over to us and got out singing Kenny Chesney, "She thinks my tractor's sexy"- He did look pretty cute (giggle, giggle).

I also had to add one of Cooper eating one of his new favorite things, scrambled eggs. This kid loves them, I make them for both of us a couple days a week, scrambled with cheese, he gobbles them up. As you can see, he's learning to feed himself, when he's in the mood, anyway.