I Hope This Post Makes Sense Because I'm Really Tired

I'm not even sure where to start with an update.  It was another busy week...

Pete threw me a curve ball on Wednesday night and said, he would really like ceramic tile in our laundry room.   Since he does all the laundry (NOT) I decided he should have his way, the only hard part was I needed to pick out tile the next day so it could be installed on Friday with the other tile.  Grrr... I thought I had all my decisions made for flooring.  So off I went to the big box hardware stores to look for tile.  

I found this at Menards, it looks like wood, but it's ceramic tile.  It was the right price so I loaded up.  

Here it is installed., not too bad for a spur of the moment decision.  

While at Menards I did some shopping for Pete for the ceiling in our front and rear porch.  I'm not sure how we would have done this project without a smart phone. 

Jesse our electrician was back this week and installed some of our light fixtures upstairs.  These cuties are in our upstairs hallway.

He also installed our ceiling fan in the master.  Yet again, our decision to add the tray ceiling was confirmed with the fan install.  If you missed the post about the oops of the tray ceiling, I've attached a link to it:  Tray Ceiling Oops!

The siding is complete,  Jerry finished everything up on Friday.  The french doors off the dining room open to the screened in porch.  I designed it this way so if we have a big party we can extend the table right out to the porch.

Lee and Jerry packed everything up on Friday.  I must tell ya, I was sad to see them go.  They arrived on our jobsite on August 29th and finished up on my birthday, December 7th.  We were extremely fortunate to have them work on our house and I can't even tell you how many times I had someone say to me, "Lee McDonald is framing your house, you got the best."  When they first started framing, Pete would bring his level to check the walls and they were always perfect.  Finally, he stopped checking.  

So, a huge thank you to Lee McDonald Builders.  Tomorrow will be exactly 4 months from when we broke ground and we never would be this far in our construction journey if it wasn't for Lee and Jerry.  They were a huge part of making our dream come true.  

This past Friday was my birthday and the night before I could hardly sleep because... TILE WAS BEING INSTALLED the next morning.

This is the mud room and bathroom on the main floor.  I worked with Wenke Tile and carpet for our flooring.  I have received superior customer service from their designer Gina.  

This is our wood on the main floor.  I wanted a solid wood not an engineered wood floor, and I wanted  variation in color, light to dark to hide dirt.  When Debbie Wenke came to measure for the floor she mentioned that the wood I chose, Acacia wood is mentioned many times in the Bible.  I was embarrassed to say that I didn't realize it.  Of course I did a little checking and found out that the Ark Of The Covenant was made from Acacia wood.  I chose this wood because I thought it was beautiful not realizing the Biblical ties.  

Max's bath 

Pete was up early Saturday morning to work on our ceiling of the front porch.  When I showed up in the afternoon, Pete and Scott were staring at this white box.  Apparently, Pete did not like this white box for the light fixture.  

When I came back out of the house this is what he was working on.

Goodbye white box.  Now, to find a super cool light fixture!  

It's a long way up there.  Our friend Scott is on an 5' ladder.  Pete is on two levels of scaffolding.   

You get a better idea of the size with Max on one level of scaffolding.  Also, a big thank you to Scott Kirklin for handing Pete boards and moving the scaffold!   

Izzy tried it out too.  Tori was at a birthday party and missed all the fun.

While we were taking pictures our friends Steve and Ann ran up the (muddy) drive-way.  

Today Pete finished wrapping the columns with cedar.  I took this picture in the rain.

When I left the house tonight he was working on the back porch.  It was dark and the picture didn't turn out great.  It's almost 11pm and Pete is still working.  One more day of work and he's off until January 2nd, he'll be working at our house for the next 2 1/2 weeks as his full time job.