November 23, 2009

We had so much success this past week! Josh was able to get the roof of the house FINISHED!!! That allowed us to get our next inspection and draw from the bank to continue moving forward with this little project! So happy for that! YEAH!(imagine big, bold letters). This weekend Josh and I intstalled the first 9 windows in the house! It was exciting to see them go in...it makes it feel more real! Now we only have 28 more to go! Last saturday, we went to a building auction and found walnut hardwood flooring for less then the price of carpet....so we bought it all! Can't really go wrong with that!

We are so excited to have an END DATE in sight for this pregnancy! We are scheduled to be induced next Thursday morning!!!! So excited for this...but still hoping baby comes on it's own before then. Today the doctor said I am now 4 cm dilated and told me the head is REALLY low! "Well No Kidding!" That would explain a multitude of things we've got going on! The Dr. was excited that I have been able to get this far on my own...it should make labor go faster! Obviously! Just hoping that it doesn't take much to make me go into labor if I do make it to the induction day!
Happy to hear the baby today with a great heartbeat again and moving all over...apparently the stress of the contractions is solely just bothering me!! Just waiting for whatever comes next...

Mary

November, 18, 2009

The porch and the roof are just about finished. Josh has had some help building the porch and putting on the rest of the shingles this week. Hoping to have this all wrapped up by tomorrow. Just love this porch already! This was the part of the house that we're the most excited about and put the most work into. We designed this space to utilize our needs as best as possible as we enjoy eating/relaxing outdoors and this space should give us the space to do that. The side is 10ft wide...and our intent is to put our patio furniture out here to sit and relax!
No baby as of yet! They took me off the medicine over 2 weeks ago and I dilated to 3cm and now here I sit. I have contractions and the whole nine yards every day but we can't seem to get it to move any farther. It has been a blessing in disguise...because while I have been just aching to deliver this baby we have been able to get the roof on the house. Fortunately this will allow us to have more time together as a "family" once the baby does arrive without the added pressure to get that part completed. They told me they will induce me at about 39 weeks due to the complications and pain that I have had thus far...I am really gonna do my best to hold them to that. I will be 38 weeks on Friday! And so the anticipation continues to build!

Novembr 11, 2009

My amazing husband just came home from working at the new house....it's 10:00 again! He is there late every night.....tonight we was apparently roofing in the dark...after I asked him nicely NOT to roof in the dark! Ughhhh!
Anyway he shingled all day today and took some pictures for me before it got dark.
The house is really starting to come together now. The whole front and side of the house will get a porch roof yet...just in case you are wondering why that looks funny. He plans to have the rest of the roof shingled by the end of the weekend! We'll see though - I laid low today because he wants to go to the building auction tomorrow and the more I am up the more I keep contracting.

I had a Dr. appt today and the Dr. said the baby looked great on the stress test during my contractions. Speaking of contractions....I had a lot this weekend/today and they have been getting more intense! They must have done something because this morning I was 3cm, effaced and the head is very low. I made a Dr. appt for next Monday but she said I will probably be back before then...Ahhh but then again who knows! I certainly can't figure this whole thing out! Just hoping I can continue moving forward with this at home and that it continues to go "easy" for me (using that term very lightly). Can't wait to meet this little one!

Josh has the roof sheeted and tar papered in. He was planning on stocking the shingles today and is working on closing up any loose ends to "dry in" the garage tonight! He will start to shingle tomorrow....unless something more "important" comes along! Last night he was there till 10:30ish getting ready for the masons today. He got them set up last night and they laid up the chimney and stuccoed it in 3 hours this morning. Moving right along here with this project! I will try to put a picture up later when he brings the camera home...He's still out there working tonight! So thankful for the BEAUTIFUL weather while we are getting all these exterior things accomplished!!

November 3, 2009 Framing the House

Here are some pictures of the house as it was framed up today! Tomorrow the second story will go up and we may even have a roof over our heads by friday night!?!?! It's crazy to stand and watch all this happen...exciting at the same time! Josh was there this morning at 5:45 and is planning on working till 9:00 tonight to get ready for tomorrow....his perservance is a sight to see! A few more days of this though and we will be under roof...we are really just trying to get to that point before he needs to take any time off work!





Riley had a great time today as well as he found a mud puddle "stream" and throughly enjoyed himself. I didn't mind...he had fun and his little life is about to be turned upside down so I figured why not! Mud like this was a surefire bet for a bath at the car wash though...he definitely didn't enjoy that!



I also included some pictures of the front porch that was completed back on October 21st. We REALLY enjoy outdoor living...so we plan to spend a lot of time up here! This is our "baby" of the house and an area that we really put a lot of time/effort in to create it just the way we had dreamed it up!

More pictures later this week...

Mary

November 2, 2009

I saw the Dr. again today and they took me off the medicine, off the bedrest and told me that I can resume normal activities. Yea! From this point on, if baby still decides he/she wants to make an early entrance then off we go! The waiting (and the discomfort) is driving me nuts, but we waited this long....and I am trying to keep it in perspective! Baby looked great again today in heartrate and activity. I see a doctor again on Wednesday so I will probably get to hear him/her again!

Josh is framing the house this week - It didn't happen last week, thank you rain! He framed the back wall of the house saturday, the front wall sunday and he and a friend stood up both walls today. Tonight he is framing the two side walls and tomorrow he's got a framing crew coming to stand those up and put the second floor on. Moving right along - roof trusses are scheduled for Thursday morning! Provided that a certain baby does not decide to arrive this week...our house should be framed up by the end of this week! Since I am off bedrest...I am headed there tomorrow to "help out". Just kidding...I am going to run errands and cook lunch! I will get some pictures of the house as well! So excited to be able to go back and be a part of this again!

Thank you again to everyone for your prayers in getting us through the last few weeks. We have a healthy baby waiting for us now...and we are quite anxious to find out the birthday!

Josh & Mary