Complaining paid off

I know I'm so retarded, my second blog in one day. I called my contractor's under guy and he was so okay with going and getting the door. I was so happy. I think he totally understood what was going on. So, I took a little drive and went out to look at the house and I actually remembered to take a couple of pictures. The just a little different views.



Okay so the main differences between these pictures and the one I put up last week are that now the roof is shingled. The chimney is done, you can kind of see it. We have a front door (Hooray!!), and the masonry guy has started to brick our posts, and he's put some of the tar paper up where he's going to be bricking on our actual house. The other differences are all internal. The front door looks kind of funny 'cause the trim around the window is tan like the trim around our other windows, but when you buy your door it's just primed so once it's painted it won't look so wierd. Okay I'm a little happier now. Contented for another day or so.
Well the boys just came in and a took a couple pictures of them since I was already blogging. They are pretty cute.


Brendon thinks he is so cute when he wears Ben's cowboy hat. They were playing "cowboy and calf" today. They were taking turns being the calf and putting Ben's rope around their waiste and the other would be the cowboy and pull them in.



Once Ben saw me putting the pictures of the house on the blog he started saying take a picture of me. He loves for me to take his picture, but his favorite part is looking at it in the camera afterwards. He's hard to take pictures of 'cause he still doesn't understand how still he needs to be and he makes the most aweful cheese smiles, he cheeses it up so bad, most of his pictures I erase. It's better when I get his off-guard.

So Frustrated

Well building a house can be a little frustrating I have to say. I think the worst part is waiting on subs to do their work, our general is great! Our heating guy started almost three weeks ago and I still don't think he's done! The electrician is working his butt off though. I think he'll probably be done today if he wasn't done yesterday. The plumber went in and got almost everything done, he just forgot a couple of things. Then I had to call my contractor and he had to call the plumber to come back and finish. Our cabinet guys have been hounding us because they want to come up for final measurements but they don't do that until after the 4-way inspection is done, which means the heating guy has to finish his crap.
Our masonry guy has been there a couple of times doing some stuff for our brick. We saw him there yesterday and Blake decided to go talk to him. He told Blake "yeah I could get all of it done, it would only take me one day if your front door was put in" The door has to be in so that way the brick goes all the way to the door, (makes sence). So I started thinking about it, we ordered our front door three weeks ago, and part of the reason I choose the door I did was because it was a good price and they had it in stock (hence the good price). So I called Jones Paint and Glass today to see what was going on. They said it's done and just sitting there, but they couldn't deliver it until next Tuesday. So it's just been sitting there cause they're to busy to deliver it and my masonry guy is sitting around actually wanting to do his work and he can't because he's waiting on our door! Our general conractor is out of town, but his right hand men are still here, so I tried calling one of them to see if they could just go pick it up and put it in today or Monday so our brick could get done.
Besides the fact that they delivered the wrong french doors for our dinning room. So we are waiting for that to be fixed, and the wrong ones are just sitting there. I want to just take them back to Jones and go get them from Lowes, which is what I thought we were doing in the first place, because I think they were like $150-$200 cheaper there. Any ways it's just a big hurry up and wait game.
Don't get me wrong I am so thankful for the work that has got done, and it really is starting to come together and they should be able to sheet rock it either next week or the week after that which would just be great. That will make me so happy. There are just so many things to get done and so many choices to make it's insane. I can't wait to just live in it! It does make me excited for the future.
Well Blake took the day to go fishing and I'm at home with the boys, hoping and praying that Ben isn't getting sick AGAIN! He isn't acting right and his voice is raspy, and he has coughed a little this morning. Besides the fact that he's just laying down watching a movie. He just got off his antibiotics on Monday! I can't wait for it to be warm, maybe all of this cold sick nastyness will go away. Brendon only has to be on his antibiotics through tomorrow, though i'm thinking about letting him take it on Sunday too, just incase Ben is getting sick again.
Well sorry I don't have any pictures to post this time. I'm so bad at remembering to take them when we're out looking at our house. Then during the day I can't find my camera because it's either in my purse and I've forgot or it's in the car or truck. Someday my brain will work better.

Daisy Duke

Blake and I went to Provo last Friday, we came home on Saturday and we brought a surprise. We decided to get a puppy for Blake's Dad. Then while we were there and looking at them we decided to get one for us too. We got a boy and got his Dad a little girl. They are so cute. They're about 10 1/2 weeks old right now. We took some pictures of them when we brought them home. Blake was set on naming our puppy Duke. I was fine with it. Then Blake's sister Jenifer decided it would be hilarious if we named the girl Daisy. Well we were going to let his Dad decide since it is supposed to be his puppy, but he took to long, and the name caught on. She's a cute Daisy. The boys are so happy to have a puppy. Ben had been asking for one for weeks non-stop. We kept telling him that he would have to wait until we got into our big new house, but I guess his waiting stopped early. The lucky little guy.

Brendon loves the puppies, but they love to scratch his face. The poor little guy is stuck. He hates not being able to love on them. If you even mention the puppies or a puppy he starts saying "Du". I'm so excited for our boys to have a puppy to grow up with.


This little gale is Daisy. She is a sweet heart and just loves to kiss you all over your face. She's kind of had a harder time adjusting. I think the transport from Bluffdale to Vernal kind of upset her tummy. Yesterday she started doing tons better. We are so glad that we got two instead of one. I think they're doing tons better because they're not alone. They love to play together and they're really smart. They don't really ever try to leave the drive way. They just play in the backyard. We put them in a big pet porter at night, or if no one is going to be at Blake's parents house they'll put them in it so they don't run off and get lost. We want these puppies!
Well the update on the house...



So this is what it looks like now. Well a little further now, I took this at the beginning of the week. They've got half of it shingled as of yesterday. Those big white things in the pictures were our tubs and showers. They've got one of the tubs in and the shower in the mud room. You can see some of them but they have all of the windows in. Our chimney is done. They have our two side doors up. The plumbing is almost done, or maybe it is done, I couldn't really tell. Our heating guy has come through and I know he's part way there so it's been a great week. Blake wants to go out and look at it tonight to see if they've finished the shingles so maybe we will. I swear his parents are going to hate us. I think we've been out every night this week. You know we want to check on the house and the little puppies. Alright I guess I'm done blabbing for now. We're just really excited about everything going on. Hopefully things will keep going in the same direction for us.

Progress Report

Okay so everybody has been bugging me because I haven't put any pictures of our house on our blog. Well I take my camera with me almost every time I go out there, but by the time I drive out there and do what I went out to do...I never remember to take any pictures. So I took a couple just to give you a little dimension. The workers were laughing at me out there taking pictures. Then they told me I needed to get some different shoes on. I really like our contractor (as I've mentioned before) and he has some pretty nice workers as well. Two of his right hand men grew up out there with Blake and his family so that's kind of nice, 'cause they're kind of friends. Well they were putting the trusses on today (obviously, and I hope I spelled trusses right). It was cool to see that start to happen, they'll be at it again tomorrow. I almost feel bad 'cause it's freezing butt cold right now but then I remember, they are getting paid, and they need a paycheck, so then I feel a little bit better.
Well I had to talk a couple things over with my contractor while I was there so I went inside. Okay just a jump back, so they've had the inside all framed up for like a week now. Well this last Monday we got a huge and I mean HUGE storm. We got like 10 inches of snow in less than 24 hours. It came down good and the coule of days before it snowed it rained. Everyone was asking me "aren't you so worried about your house?" I'm thinking why be worried, there's nothing I can do about it, anybody have a 1500 square foot tarp???? Yeah, I didn't think so, your just have to live with it. Well any ways the last couple of days they've been shoveling snow out of our house. Today when I went inside it was like an ice rink. In fact one of the workers was sliding around the house with his sneakers. I was laughing. My contractor told me that he slipped and totally ate it just trying to get up the make shift stair/ladder thing that they have.
Well I guess that's about it. I would have taken a "butt" end shot of the house but I was soooo not going to walk through that foot of snow to get there. So these will have to work. I would have done some of the inside, but right now I think that it would just be confusing. My whole life is confusing. We've found this pretty good company out of Lehi that does flooring and he called me to say that he e-mailed me some bids to look at, just different ideas of what we could do. I'm supposed to talk to him about it tomorrow morning...yeah he sent me like 7! So I have my night planned. Well hope that does you guys for now.

Oooops

Well I still don't know what I'm doing all the time...so I hope that everybody saw the pictures that I posted...not just the ones on the side I put a bunch more up too...I just added them as a gadget or whatever instead of in my post, so scroll all the way to the bottom and there are pictures of my messed up kitchen and the boys and Christmas. So....well...I just thought I'd let you guys know.

Alright!

I promised some pictures so here they are....hope you enjoy!

The New Year's Coming

Well I'm glad to see that some people on my blog list are as bad as me about posting. One day I'll have time to do stuff again. I'm on Christmas break from dance right now and I'm loving it. I don't want to go back...I think I'm burnt out. How do you get burnt out on doing something you love? I don't know but I am. This school year has been extremely difficult. It hasn't killed me though, so I'm sure that in some twisted way it has made me stronger.
We got the boys pictures taken at the beginning of the month, so I'll have to find time to post them in the next few days, they are soooo cute. My mom and her husband, Steve, came to visit us. The boys loved having them here. After they left we had just a few days until Christmas. Those passed by really fast and we had a great holiday. The boys were so excited we woke them up at 10 min. to 4 in the morning so they could open their presents before Blake had to go to work. It was great. I thought that they would just be too rotten from being woke up to enjoy it, but they weren't. As soon as we told Ben that Santa had came....he was all smiles, and they only got bigger.
Well after Christmas there's always the clean up...that really hasn't begun too much yet. Brendon is slowly but steadily pulling all of the ornaments off the tree. We really need to go pick up all the boxes from our shed so we can put stuff away. We're just so lazy...have to haul it through the snow...and the biggest just remembering to pick them up when we're already out there.
Good news....our house is coming along, the basement floor was poured yesterday. The lumber is supposed to be here next week so they can start framing, and they are going to back fill next week sometime too. So that's great. Also, we have our cabinets ordered. Wow that was a big chunk of money, and it was only the deposit. We'are getting a great deal though. So I'm really excited, I just can't believe that finally I might have something that's really nice. Which rolls into the...
Bad news....So on Friday night two sets of our upper cabinets just fell off of our wall. Of course they had all of our glass cups and mugs and plates and stuff like that. Luckily most of the stuff didn't break just almost all of our cups and stuff. We do have to be thankful that no one was in the kitchen at the time because looking at it (and we did take pictures) it would have totally killed a child or really injured an adult. Now we're just on the fight for our landlord to actually fix the problem...that will be a huge fight, probably. I know somehow he's going to try to make us pay for it, but I've checked with my insurance company and talked to my contractor and stuff and they said it's not my fault so if he tries to make a claim against me insurance, they will counter and if he tries to keep our security deposit they said we can take him to small claims court, like we ever would, but at least we will have satisfaction of knowing that it wasn't our fault. I just really can't wait until we have something nice. I won't know what to do with myself if my house isn't falling apart all around me. It will be a new experince but a welcomed one for certain. Any ways I've talked enough, must people probably won't even make it to the end of this post. We love ya guys, and keep hope as our focus.