Happy Thanksgiving

Jesse and I are so thankful for all the love and support that we have been shown over the last year of building.  We have the most amazing family and friends who have donated hours and hours of their time and energy helping us along the way.

Our families were gracious enough to spend their Thanksgiving afternoon helping us with the house.

Thank you! Thank you!

We are truly greatful for your help!!

 Thatcher helped Jen, Rachel and I clean (and made a pretty sweet hammerhead shark out of scrap wood!!)

 Chandler, Phil and Kenny helped with more 2nd coat of interior plastering.

 Thanks Chan... I'm sure this is just want you wanted to be doing on your Thanksgiving break!!

 Friday Phil came and helped finish the random width tongue and groove boards on the back porch.

 This is Cedar's new favorite place to hang out and welcome visitors:

 Jesse also worked on the railing for the front, 2nd floor porch.

 and I painted the porch wall

 and Jesse's finished railing.

 Stairs for the back porch:

 It is so fun to see the upstairs so clean and ready for the next step!

 Doors are being hung.

 Saturday we finished the l-a-s-t of the exterior plastering!!

YAY!

Things are happening fast around here.  

I will hopefully have more pictures soon because things have changed already!!

Finishing up the exterior

Things are continuing to progress here at the house.  We decided on flooring, interior trim profiles, Karl and Kent are working on the kitchen (Christiana Cabinetry), drywallers are still working, Dustin is working on finishing up the HVAC system... lots are happening!

 Stairs to the mudroom from the driveway.

(I love the huge stone that Jesse picked out for the first step!!)

 Front steps being built:

 The entire inside has a first coat of plaster on now!  The sprayer is amazing... and has made it go so much faster!

 Random width tongue and groove boards above the stone section:

 We will do the same thing to the back, middle porch section that does not have bales.

 Paneling on the front of the master where there are no bales (due to interior built in bench and storage in our bedroom)  This is pre-painted.

 Handrail for front steps that matches the porch rafters in the back:

Inside

 Jesse has been working on the interior window trim

 The excavators came and finish-graded the outside and put in our driveway.

Our plan is to eventually build a garage on the center of the drive.

 Drywallers are finishing

 And we began interior plaster!!!

 Thanks to Rachel, we found a sprayer that makes this process go a lot faster!

 YAY!

Still plugging away.

 Drywallers are still hanging and finishing.

 Exterior basement door has been hung.

 Well has been dug.

 More lime has been mixed and applied.

This is the finish coat and final color for the exterior.  

We thought we were going to wait until the spring to do the lower sections, but we had the help and are almost done with it all now.

Jesse has begun working on the interior window trim and is still working on the dormer siding.

 Here is the finished exterior trim:

 We are hoping to start spraying the interior drywall with primer very soon, then on to plastering the interior bales!

Exciting!!