We have been moving along quite well with our forever home.  I thought sharing a short update would be a great way to keep you informed of all the little things that have been happening–the things that don’t quite deserve a full blog post.

In my last home post, I told you that all our framing was completed (with the exception of the doors and that one sad window at the top we had to re-order!).

Since then, a few things have happened. We have a real roof, with actual shingles. Because the shingles on the current part of the house are 10 years old, we decided to put new shingles on that part too so that everything would match.  (Sidenote:  When the roofers installed the new shingles on the current part of our home, they had to take our satellite down.  I don’t watch much tv, but I do record three shows {This is Us, Blacklist, and Blindspot} and watch them after the kids go to bed.  I have missed two of the three this week and am so sad!)

Our front and side doors are installed and have two coats of paint on them. Hopefully, we will install our back French doors, finish the painting process, and install knobs this weekend so that we can get the place locked up.

As I am writing this post, the plumber is roughing everything in and the brick are being delivered.  The brick mason and our HVAC guy are coming next week, and my favorite workers (i.e. Justin and my dad!) will start installing the siding.

I know everyone says this, but I feel like the framing process went sooooo very fast and now everything has slowed down.  It’s even slower since we are doing so much of the work ourselves.  I had to remind myself this week that I really am loving this process and I don’t want to rush it–not too much anyways!