Innards

Lots done at the house this week! I'm no pro but I think the electrical, plumbing and mechanical are nearly done! They also put up the metal shed roofs on the front and side as well as poured the garage floor. Oh! And the roof was shingled! 

 

Rob and I had gone through and put post-it notes around for the electrician based on a couple dry runs of daily routines. We added a couple switches, changed a little what controls what. Honestly it was one of the things I was dreading most about building because it requires so much thought but I think we did alright. The electrical inspection was Friday and passed. 

Fireplaces in! 

 

The sewage ejector all piped up and ready to spray (or "wheeze-honk" for you nature buffs). 

 

Looking back at it. 

This is that service door out the back of the garage that we didn't know would work out until the house went up. 

 

We stopped over at the house again today before picking Kasper up from a sleepover and it was all cleaned and tidied! Someone came to clean between yesterday and today, probably in preparation for another inspection tomorrow. According to our calendar, they are expecting to start insulation this week. 

It was sooooooo cold all weekend which was a bummer. Rob and I did go out and play disc golf today before going to get groceries. It was 7 degrees so we didn't take the kids (they stay home for a couple hours now which is amazing). I got to see Rob get a hole-in-one at our local course he plays all the time! He's been trying to get a hole in one here for the last 6 months. Maybe it had been too warm.

Another busy week coming up! Aren't they all?? Kasper has his last ski club, Marlo has swimming, Kasper gets to visit the orthodontist. And Friday is a day I hoped to never see again: an e-learning day. Wish us luck. We also decided this week to send Kasper to the middle school our new house feeds into vs. the middle school his elementary school feeds into. Kappy ultimately made the call, and it'll be so much easier for him to take the bus to and from home. Big changes for the dude in 2022, but he'll be ready!

Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Electrical

Every week I say the house is moving along so quickly! 

We had our electrical walk through this week! Stuff like this is overwhelming to me because I've never built a house before where we have total control over where light switches are and what they control and where outlets are. There were quite a few people working at the house while we were there and so that was fun. I think framing has officially wrapped up as of this week.

The light in here is just magical.

 

This weekend we did a family adventure race put on by the school district. It was cold but fun!

   

 Then we went back to the house while it was quiet to walk through ourselves and go through daily routines to really nail down the electrical plan. We have a (temporary) front door now!

   

Kitchen 

Marlo's room 

Loft and spare room 

Kappy's room 

Our room 

Sliding door in the basement that will eventually lead to the hot tub!

 

Kids are over it. 

Nice big window downstairs!

   

Little bar downstairs. 

We got the stairs going downstairs!

 

Then we went out to Lake Minnetonka to hang out at some ice houses belonging to friends. It was cold and windy so the kids mostly sat in the ice houses and watched the Olympics.

 

It was quite the sunset! 

Today we took the kids to the mall! We got them some snacks then drug them to the Sleep Number store where they insisted on being very involved in the process of picking a new bed.  So we ended up just getting this one.

   

Hope everyone had a great weekend!