Now you see them... now you don't!

 

We almost have a laudry room! Bright orange, mind you!

Look at me I am drilling with the BIG drill!

 

Look, I can do toilets too! ... (Eric's idea of a slogan... What's for dinner? Something smells good! ha ha ha ha! He is a comedian too, did you know! :) Yes, the toilet was leaking for the past few weeks.. so tonight was a night off of the basement and onto a normal house project.... all fixed though and no more shower in the basment every time you flush... yeah.. I know gross!  

Family Day Out

Well, Saturday has become new family day out. For the inaugural day we chose to take the kids to the site of the condo. (to get them familiar with the area and excited about the condo) They thought it was great! Kai is excited about the sushi place across the street, which we tried out for his birthday and was really fun. Avery is just excited about being downtown again and being so close to the Guthrie to go see a show! We then went across the street to the Guthrie and had fun showing the kids all the neat things to see there.... the ghostly images on the walls and ceiling the experimental theatre aka the yellow box.... with the floating glass floor.... very cool... and the great bridge and outdoor balcony... where we will be getting married... Yes, we found out that we can indeed get married out on the bridge! So excited! I was so enthused about the space when I was out there about the idea of getting married there that I forgot to take pictures... I will go back in the next few weeks and get some photo's of the view out there... did I mentioned how excited we are! Anyhow back the kids... we had a really fun day that finished with a drink and a snack at Cue the restaurant on the main floor of the Guthrie and then home for dinner with artichokes and chicken.... Kai is a our newest member of the we love to eat artichoke group.... It was his request for that night!

As mentioned above we did go to the Sushi place for Kai's birthday... his favorite food is sushi.....We had a great night with lot of excitement sitting at a Hibatchi table... the chef was wonderful and had lots of fun things to do with food, fire and utensils for our entertainment. Kai and Avery are definitely fans of this restaurant.

Ok... let's rest!  

Look Alyssa only has one arm and is floating! Eek! 

Look Kai and Avery are floating! (we are in the experimental theatre... it's the big yellow box you see near the river.... so all of these photo's will be tinted yellow..)

The sales center.... 

There is the Guthrie!  

Our other construction site! The condo! (this is the living room kids!) 

Well, the plumbing is basically done!

Well, as you can tell the plumbing is almost done.... all that needs to be done is the venting up through the roof and we can have it inspected and get moving on electrical and the rest of the studs! Yay! The gas pipe is all ready to go for the new dryer location.. that was a lot of work.... now Eric can see why they make so much an hour after trying to get two pipes connected that didn't want to. He also knows now that he will never go into pipe or gas line work! Avery did a little helping once she came home... she spent a short while outside with Eric watching him drill a hole into the house for the dryer vent and then got to be the one to put the vent into place... she was very excited! She is learning a lot about construction and is really enthusiastic about wanting to go with Eric when she gets home and help rather than be with me! My little girl is growing out of her girlie girl stage! Well, we all knew that it would happen sometime!.. ok... so eric just said that he doesn't think she is really quite there yet.. which is probably true... but still to wanting to help with the toilet repair... yeah... not so girlie!

Now, Avery and Alyssa this is a very dangerous pipe.... this is the gas.. no touching! (notice the very serious face! :) ) He really was telling Avery that that was not to touch... it was funny to see the serious look on his face after I had taken the picture!  

Look, I can stop up the sewer! ha..just wait mom and eric... see all the havoc I will create!  

All finished! Let's go dry some clothes!  

Check me out mom! I am helping with the dryer vent! Can you believe that Eric just cut a hole into the house! 

wow.. working with pipe is a lot of work.... but it is only the gas line... what could go wrong! Eek! (it works wonderfully though...the washer and dryer and moved and hooked up and work great! ) 

the sink and toilet here.... yay!  

and the washing machine goes here! yay! 

Day 7 and 8... I think!?!?

Well, having time off from work is a wonderful thing... but your mind does start to lose some of it's sharpness as well as basic knowledge of what day it is. Eric and my dad have been really grinding away. The plumbing inspector signed our building permit 2 days ago... so that was really great news. It meant that we could pour the floor and continue construction. The goal by the end of the day is to have the walls up around the perimeter of the laundry room...and the plumbing done... so that we can start moving stuff into that room in order to work on the other areas. (considering the laundry room and pantry storage currently resides in what will be the playroom.)

Eric is definitely feeling the burn of his daily work out. He is sore and tired pretty much every night now. As for me... I am a dinner, coffee/water and dishes queen.... in between my numerous trips to Home Depot and my local Ace Hardware, which allow the guys to keep working. I am also doing things to help the move along... like getting address change information for Eric and keeping all of our purchases and changes in order for the basement project. We have a lot of work with that move ahead of us... good thing I moved 3 times in 18 months... I have a system down pat.. although I am still not looking forward to it...

We are definitely making great progress with the basement though.. last night we bought paint for the laundry room.... very exciting... the floor will be blue with sherberty orange walls.... bright and cheery for a relatively finished laundry room... I will have to get crackin' on the paint colors for the rest of the rooms.... and the upstairs bathroom as well... that will be completed as soon as we finish the basement and our room will be painted when my bedroom furniture moves down there and before his moves in... and then finally then.. we will have a complete house! All by March 17th! Can you imagine!

Tonight is our break night... we are going to get massages and relax.... tomorrow we get kids back, (Eric for the weekend and me for the week) so we will have a few days to rest and collect ourselves before we head back to a normal work week and become weekend warriors....

Here are some fun before and after pictures! Before....  

and after! 

Before.... 

And after... 

A shower! Ok, it's only the floor... but it's progress!  

now you don't

now you see it! 

Well... one night ago.. Eric asked me if I had anything to read (in preparation for taking a bath and resting his tired muscles.) He was sitting in the exact spot I was when I took the picture... I thought... yes.. look to your left and you will see about 2000 books... Then I thought he needs a few mental health days after this week! He is one tired boy!