Bad weather Bad timing

Why?  Why, when we finally get the plumbing up and running, we have to shut it all down?  Thanks to the lovely ice storm expected Texas had to go over today and turn off all the water and drain the pipes.  So no work happened today and there will likely be no work tomorrow.  Texas then spent the rest of the day getting us ready in case the power goes out.  I am so grateful I married an Eagle Scout, he is always prepared and thinking ahead.   He has this insane need to be prepared drilled into his brain that he hasn't stopped all day.  If I have boys, they will all be Eagle Scouts.  As for the girls, sorry but I hear all they do is make crafts. 

Day 27

We FLUSHED!  Texas took the plug out of the new pipe so we could at least flush the toilets tonight and clean them out.  He has to go over early in the morning and put it back in before the inspector comes.  I don't really understand why, but the new pipe has to be plugged up for the inspector to see that it holds water.   He tried to convince me that we should just wait and not run water again all day today.  I threw a fit and made him take the plug out.   I wanted to work and friends of ours we bringing dinner over to see the progress on the house, and really, you can't have people over and then tell them they have to drive up the street to quick trip if they need to pee or wash their hands.  That's just rude.  It was worth it.  I flushed both the toilets about 4-5 times each.  Ran the water in all the sinks and both bathtubs!  Plumbing is truly a gift. 
Mark and Maggie came over and got to see how things are looking.  It was so fun having people over and getting to sit down and eat in our new house.  Granted we were in folding chairs at a card table, but it was still nice.  Thanks again Mark and Maggie, dinner was GREAT!

Day 26

Still no flushing toilet :(

Day 24-25

Well Sunday was a lost day for me as far as the house goes.  I had another baby shower with Tex's side of the family.   It was really awesome to have two days of baby events.  It kind of made me realize I haven't been very baby focused this pregnancy.  Hence losing track of when baby is coming.  Not sure if it's just baby number 2 or if it's because there is so much going on.  Probably a mixture of both. 
Texas did manage to get a little work done, but I know he's tired.

Day 25, The PLUMBER is here!   I got so excited this morning just knowing the plumber was coming and was going to get started I forgot that I still had things to get done today.   I came back to earth when I talked to Texas.  The plumber didn't actually do anything but measure and pick up his first half of the payment.   So no, we still can't flush the toilet and Quick trip isn't getting rid of us yet.  He's supposed to show up tomorrow with everything he needs.  With any luck he'll show up and by the end of tomorrow we'll be able to flush the toilet.   We are really hoping to catch a little luck tomorrow.  Work has halted due to the fact that we can't even use the sink anymore (unless we want to flood our basement). 

Day 23

Today was a slow day.  We woke up tired and not in the mood to work.  Plus I was going to a baby shower tonight, so I had this vision in my head of spending the day relaxing and not getting dusty.   Jon just laughed when I told him I thought I'd stay home today.  There is just to much to do and so we got our butts in gear and went to the house.  Somehow we managed to not really start working until around 1:30.   We hung the drywall and removed some trim which should have taken maybe an hour or two.  It took us about four.  I think we are burnt out at this point.  So we called it quits and went home.
I got so excited on the way home.  I was going to shower and go out!  Can I just say it is an amazing feeling to be clean, and in clothes that aren't covered in drywall mud or dust.   I had been looking forward to going out for weeks now.  No scrapers, spatulas or ladders involved.  Sitting down with friends from church and to top it off I got presents for the new baby!   Thank you so much Jill, Katie and Kelly, you have no idea how wonderful tonight was for me. 

 The bad wall

And the door is now gone!

It's never to late (to carve a pumpkin)

So Annie and I did grow pumpkins last year for Halloween, the problem was they weren't ready.  About 3 weeks ago they finally turned orange.  She was so excited.  She carried the darn thing around for about a week before she decided that she wanted to carve it.  OK, I can do that.  Two weeks later the pumpkin is starting to go soft on us, and Annie is getting impatient.  I finally get my butt in gear and Annie and I carve the littlest pumpkin.

So here's Annie with our January pumpkin.

And the walls came tumbling down (day 22)

 So Texas and I learned our lesson about canvas lined walls.  That stuff is there for a reason, and really if the canvas weren't creating a ruffle along the bottom of the wall we probably would have left it.

 Texas was working on taking out the extra doorway between our future bedroom and Annie's.   Everything that going great until he went to take off the baseboards. 

 At first just a little plaster fell off. Then...

 Catastrophe struck! and there went our bedroom wall. 

The good news is, the rest just sort of fell off and Texas found a way to wire outlets into
the bedrooms. 

A few hours of Texas the electrician later, and our room has two new outlets and Annie's has three outlets and a light fixture all running off new wires instead of knob and tube!  So thank you, crumbling plaster walls.  I was nervous about having no outlets in Annie's room and only the one in our room.