House Rebuild Update 11-5-10

One week until move in!  Woot, Woot!

I do have updated pictures, but please pardon the construction dust and mess!  :-)  All we lack now are our floors and plumbing fixtures and few other minor things. 

The past couple of weeks have been the ones I have been most nervous about.  When you pick out countertops, tile, marble, etc. you hope and pray it will go together as you planned.  But, in reality…you just don’t know until it goes in!  I am very happy with our decisions and think it has all gone together nicely.

The Kitchen

We chose Han Stone Quartz for our countertops.

The corbels under the countertops would typically not be my style.  I think they look pretty, but wouldn’t necessarily have been something I picked out…but it was a necessity for our countertops.  I can’t wait to put our barstools in there! 

We decided on a chocolate granite sink.  I think it will take some getting used to, but we really like it!  It is supposed to be extremely durable.

Hayden’s Bathroom

 

 

Hayden’s Bedroom

I know, real exciting.  A shelf.  But, I have to tell you, I am so pumped about this shelf.  I can’t wait to transform his room!!  It is going to be TO.DIE.FOR!!!!!!  Atleast I think so!  :-)

Master Bathroom

 

The door on the right goes from our bedroom to the back porch.

 

They are still finishing our shower.  They should be finished with it tomorrow.

 

Walking in the front door.

Utility

That’s all for now!  I can hardly wait to get in there and clean!!  The dust everywhere is killing my OCD!  Ha! 

House Rebuild Update 11-2-10

Two months ago today, we were pouring concrete for our add-on and guess what….WE ARE SO CLOSE TO BEING DONE!!!

Last week they finished up painting, closets were finished out, door knobs and blinds installed, our cabinets were stained and painted, and our countertops were installed. 

I have pictures of our cabinets, but not of them with our countertops on.  I know, sad!  I simply didn’t take any this weekend and they are a little too messy right  now for a picture with more construction going on.  Our electric crew came yesterday and began installing lights, plugs, etc.  Another crew will be here today to begin our tile backsplash and tile Hayden’s tub surround.  Our master shower will be installed Thursday.  Then, we will be down to floors and installing plumbing fixtures.  We are hoping to be able to begin moving some things in next weekend. 

Utility Room…Antique White with a glaze finish.   Two pictures-different lighting.

Kitchen…

Our bathroom…

Our boy being silly.  Playing peek-a-boo with his daddy!

 

Halloween 2010

If you remember, I bought Hayden a Carters dinosaur costume at Good Samaritans for 50 cents a few weeks ago.  I thought it was so cute and couldn’t wait for Hayden to wear it.  Well, being 80+ degrees outside yesterday, the fleece costume wasn’t an option unless I wanted him to have a heat stroke.  Our Sunday was crazy busy so about 10 minutes before it was time to go to our church Fall Festival, I came in trying to figure out what I could come up with for a costume.  (Such a good mom-Ha!)

Well, I decided on Alfalfa from the Little Rascals.  I am not sure if he ended up looking like Alfalfa, Huckleberry Finn, or just a little country boy…but he sure was cute!

It certainly didn’t take long for him to figure out the “system”.  Play game=Get candy!

Cousin Brooklyn helping him out…

He wasn’t real sure what to think about the hay but he sure did love his little duck he had won.

 

We had a good time!  We only were able to stay a little while because we had to go to Canton to pick up our new bedroom furniture!  I  love it!  We are hoping to move in next weekend!

House update up next!

Country boys…

Country boys ride concrete armadillos for fun.

Country boys spend their time at the fence talking to the cows. 

Sometimes I think the cows might love Hayden as much as he loves them.

Sweet Sleep

What’s this?  A picture of Hayden sleeping in his bed on our video monitor.  Not that Hayden has not slept in his bed.  He has.  But now, I am so happy to report that we no longer have to rock for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or even an hour to get him to go to sleep for naps or nighttime.  I never thought this would happen!! 

I absolutely loved rocking my baby boy to sleep every night.  But, it was becoming quite the chore.  A frustrating one at times.  I didn’t know how I was going to break him but I knew it needed to happen soon! 

The first night we were in SC at Jen’s, it took me over an hour to get him to sleep.  An overtired baby in a new place was hard.  But, an hour was a little ridiculous. The time had come.   Jen was my rock in this adventure!!  I seriously could not have done it without her.  The first night, even after rocking for an hour, he cried for quite a while.  SO SAD!  But, eventually went to sleep.  The next morning for nap time, I rocked him for 10 minutes and laid him down.  He cried.  Jen and I left while Jeff Gray endured the crying.  He eventually laid down and went to sleep.  That night, I again rocked for 10 minutes and laid him down.   He only cried for a few minutes.  After a couple more nap/nighttimes and rocking for 2-5 minutes, he no longer cried.  Sweet!!  I was one happy momma!  It was a celebration every night/naptime when he didn’t cry!  I eventually got to where I could rock him in my arms for just a few seconds and lay him down without a sound.

I was a little nervous about how he would do when we got back home.  Guess what, he did beautifully!!  We now are able to just walk into his room and he reaches out for his bed for naptime and nighttime! 

I had always heard that 3 nights is all it takes.  That was right.  3 nights and like magic, our baby boy now just lays down and goes to sleep on his own.  Dad’s words when we go home were, “That’s Amazing!”  I think so!  Makes for a happy momma and daddy!

Side notes:

Hayden has a box fan on high when he sleeps.  He has had one in his room for about a year and blocks sound fabulously.  Again-Jens suggestion.

Do you have a video monitor?  We got this one from a friend of Jen's in January.  I love it and don’t think I could ever live without one.  However, I didn’t have one when we went to SC and I definitely think it helped me stay strong since I could only hear him crying and not see him.

Jeff is a very tough guy.  But not when his baby is crying.  I definitely think he was so relieved when he heard I was trying to break Hayden of being rocked to sleep while we were GONE!  I am not sure we could have been strong enough together to do it.

House Rebuild Update and Our Sunday

This is for you Kelly Ann!

I thought I might have a little more to report to you, but things went a little slower than I thought!  Of course, I always have high hopes. :-)

Trim work was completed and paint is getting closer to being complete.  About half of the trim and interior doors, and all the crown mold still needed to be painted. 

Remember this post?  Well, I ended up not even going with any of those for wall colors.  My friend Stacy encouraged me and I went with her suggestion!  I decided on Sherwin Williams Latte for all the walls and SW Antique White for the ceiling, trim, and doors.  I love it!  I really wanted to do something a little different for the utility room, but I just couldn’t make a decision I was happy with.  So, I decided to wait until I could see everything all pulled together, then maybe one day I might want to change it. 

Of course, color is hard to tell in pictures, but here are a couple in our bedroom.  That is plastic, tape, and paper on the door in the middle.

In this picture, our ceilings look stark white.  But, they certainly aren’t white.  I am really loving the antique white though!

They also started working on trimming and building shelves for our closets.

Here is a dilemma I am having right now.  Our front door.  Well, really all our exterior doors.  I wanted something different.  Something other than white like we had last time.  I really thought I wanted a red.  I am sure it had something to do with the red I already had, but I tried it and it looked TERRIBLE!!! 

So, I have tried a couple of different colors.

Gray…(Can’t think of the actual color right now.)

 

This one is SW Keystone Gray.  Actually more tan than gray to me.

Not sure I love either one of them.  But, I am thinking we may just go with Gray #1 for now until I can find something I love.  :-)  Your thoughts?

Cabinets did not get started getting painted/stained this past week.  Supposed to start in the morning.  I am so excited to see how they turn out!  If they get finished by Thursday (like they said they would be) then we should be getting some kitchen countertops on Friday.  So, maybe I will have some countertop pictures along with cabinet pictures to show you next weekend.

So, what did we do today?  Hung out at home!  I can’t think of a time recently that we did not go somewhere during the day.  We were church skippers too.  Quite honestly, I know this is not an excuse, but I am scared to death of us getting that stomach virus that is running rampant around here.  I didn’t want Hayden to go into the nursery to spread his runny nose and coughing germs and pick up someone else's tummy bug!  S0, we decided to stay home and get things done around here.  We cleaned at the new house.  Cleaned up the travel trailer getting ready for hunting season.  Cleaned up some things that survived the fire that we are going to use again in the house.  Road the Ranger.  Painted doors.  And…shot guns.  Well, I shot once.  Dad and Jeff shot a lot getting several guns/scopes sighted in.

Nice redneck picture huh?  Nothing like holding the gun and your kid in the same picture.  He was trying to hold Hayden still so I could snap of a picture of him and his dirty self.

Hayden played on his slide, ran around, swung, played in the water and mud, and picked up sticks and rocks.  He was simply a country boy who played outside for about 7 hours today.  Today was a one nap day and he was one tired boy come bedtime. 

Oh yes, he went to bed with a fat lip.  He fell and busted his lip right before we came in after being injury free playing outside for 7 hours.  Poor baby! 

The weather was kind of exciting tonight.  Crazy actually.  I know of atleast one tornado only a few miles down the road.  Kind of scary!  Here are a few pictures of the sky tonight.

We had a great weekend and really feel like we got some things accomplished!  Don’t you love that feeling?