Well, I finally got around to uploading my pictures so you can all see my new deck and porch. I am so excited, I think they look great!
Scott and I took Friday off of work so that we could work on the house. Therefore we were able to meet with the Electrician, and I am so glad did, because they had tons of questions about how we wanted everything placed. They worked really fast too, by the end of the day they had over half of the boxes placed and some of the wiring pulled.
On Sunday Scott was working inside of the new house while the girls and I were cleaning up the yard. He came out and asked if the girls were pretending to be cats because he kept hearing cat sounds. Since the girls were not playing cat, we started looking around the house. In our dinning room there was a little gray tabby kitten. Well it took the girls exactly 2 seconds to become attached to the kitten, so now we have a fourth cat. (Two cats we adopted that my Brother is watching until our house is complete, and now two stray Cats that adopted us.) Since we found him in the house, and he is a boy cat we named him Orlo (after the owner of company that designed our house). We are guessing that he is about 6 weeks old, since he is so tiny that when I hold him he sands with all four paws in one of my hands. I guess when you live in the country; you tend to meet a lot of animals that someone decided they did not want.
Orlo (that is a small butter dish he is standing next to):
Angle (the first stray Cat, she adopted Scott's Cousin and we will take her to our house when it is complete. She was super skinny when we first saw her):
The outside of our house does not look very different, but there is a lot going on inside. Scott is about 1/3 of the way through installing our Ice House Roof. He choose to install the scariest part first, the ceiling of our vaulted living room. I am very glad that part is over, it was nerve racking to see him walking on the rafters 11 feet in the air. I have been helping him by preparing the pieces for installation, because people that are afraid of heights don’t walk in rafters.
The deck has been installed and the railings are on. Several doors have been installed, and only the front door and the garage doors need to be installed before the house is lockable! They are pouring the floor of our porch today, which I am really looking forward to seeing. Our cabinet maker, unfortunately, pointed out a few things that need to be changed. We have four doors upstairs that are 2 feet wide, but by code they have to be 4 inches wider so our builder is going to have to rip those out and replace them. It is a disappointment, but it is better to find that out now when it is easier to fix, then fail another inspection and have to redo it later.
This has been a busy week. We put our current house on the market on Monday and on Wednesday we got an offer! We sent them a counter offer so hopefully they will accept and we will have the house sold. I hope so because that would be one less thing that we need to worry about.
Things are going well with the new house. We now have a deck (minus the railings), all but two windows have been installed, and the walls for our front porch have been poured. The ventilation ducts are moving along nicely and as soon as they are finished the Electric and pluming can be stared. Scott is working on installing our Ice House Roof and our in house audio components were delivered this week.
I have signed both of the girls up for Girl Scouts and that starts next week, and I am now in charge of Erin’s class Valentines party. Thank goodness for computers, otherwise I would never keep this stuff strait. 
Erin was not feeling well last night, she was sleeping when I picked her up from School, she slept all evening, and all through the night. I was hoping that she was just overly tired and would be ready for school this morning, but that was not the case. I dropped her off at my In-law’s today with an upset stomach, a fever, and very sleepy eyes. I called a little while ago and she is up and moving and asking for food, so it looks like she is feeling better.
The house is progressing nicely. We have a roof, some windows, a concrete floor in the garage, footings for the front porch, and frames for some of our pocket doors. Ameren UE has finally started setting polls to bring electric to the house, and we letting our electrician, and HVAC installer know they can start at anytime. We are having some more materials delivered today, and Scott is going out there to get instructions on how to install the Ice House Roof. I love progress!
