Well then...looky what's happend

Yup, it's true....my very adorable nephew, Payton, is proudly spreading the word that Andrew and I are going to have a BABY! How freakin' cool is that! Our due date is September 30th, 2007 and currently I am 13 weeks along. I am feeling great and haven't had many pregnancy symptoms. So far we have seen our little one, but it was about 5 weeks ago during our first ultrasound at that time we got to hear its little heartbeat too, which was a very strong 164 bpm. At my last appointment (which Andrew couldn't attend) I got to hear the heartbeat again and it was a very strong 163 bpm.
We are really excited about our new adventure into parenthood and adding an addition to our family.

So along with that super exciting news, the house is coming along quickly as well. This week Andrew has taken off from work and is dedicated to getting the house completed for our rough mechanical inspection on Friday. Once the mechanicals are inspected we can then have the house insulated and drywalled. We are hoping to begin insulating on Monday April 2nd and then start drywalling on or around the 5th of April. I am still amazed everyday by how much knowledge about construction Andrew has in his little brain. It's amazing what this guy can do. The coolest part is he is doing it for us.

I actually got off my bum this past weekend and helped with some of the wiring, mostly the running of the phone and cable wire. Oh yeah and I pulled out the good 'ole labeler (thanks ma!) and went to town labeling the circuit breakers. Graham and Payton came over for a visit, so I showed them around while Andrew slaved away. Then I took Graham and Payton to our local hot dog shack and got us all lunch. Payton was such a big boy and took down almost all of his hot dog. I was impressed. Andrew was such a big boy too and took down 3, yes I said 3, hot dogs. I think he's eating for two :)

Today, I swept the 2nd floor and I think it took me about an hour and a half! And I have a blister because of it! About halfway through sweeping the master bedroom, I asked Andrew "why did we make this room so BIG?". I made us some really good sandwiches for lunch and read some baby books. It's a gorgeous spring day here today, it's about 77 and sunny, a little windy though.

That's all I've got for now. We'll keep you posted on BOTH of our projects!

Slacking Ass

Ok, so my SIL has been giving me crap that I haven't been updating the blog site. I must admit that I can't believe how fast the time goes by between posts. I swear that just yesterday I posted and look now it's already March. Thank God by the way!

We have been very busy, unfortunetely no new pictures but I will give a written update. Andrew is working diligently on the house almost every night. In fact I think tonight is the first night in about a month or so he hasn't been out to the house to work on it. The HVAC stuff is almost completed, the basement floor was poured last Wednesday. My first reaction when I walked down into the basement was that the ceiling felt shorter. Andrew's response was that the cement was only 3 inches thick, maybe I'm very observant or just being weird. Anywho, now that the floor is poured the furnace can finally be installed, considering that we have had them for the last week and a half. Also since the floor is poured Andrew built the basement stairs, which look very nice I must say and much more convienant than climbing up and down the ladder. While the cement guy was at the houes he told Andrew that we can put in the garage doors. This was news to him, he thought they couldn't put in the doors until the garage floor was poured. So needless to say it sounds like we are getting garage doors sometime in the very near future. It will be nice to get them in since the make-shift "doors" we have now are just plywood and they let in a lot of COLD.

Andrew also worked on the flashing around the windows so they don't leak when it rains. He has the whole first floor done and is waiting until we get another warm spell to work on the upstairs windows.

We also went around the house and picked out where we wanted to put all our light switches, outlets and overhead light fixtures. So now Andrew has been busy wiring the outlets and switches, and pretty much has the first floor done minus the living room and laundry room. Which according to him will take no time at all, however in human time that means a half day or so.

I asked Andrew the other night when he thought we would be able to start insulating and he said about 3 weeks, so that is pretty exciting. I can't wait until they start to dry wall and it really looks like a house and not a skeleton.

That's all for now.....