This past weekend was awesome!  My parents came out Friday night and we spent the weekend putting up drywall in the front hallway/entry and closets.  It’s not ‘finished’ because of some areas we left out strategically and also some areas we just ran out of drywall.  Plus it was getting late on Sunday for them to drive home.

First up (after tons of prep work), Dad drywalled the closet in the tvroom, some of the plaster walls are staying so it was one wall and a section of ceiling to do.

Tvroom closet wall finished

And the closet ceiling

Ryan and Dad framed out the wall at the end of the staircase (we wanted to open up the front entry a bit more) and this adds support under the second floor.

New support

From the other side

Next on the list was the front hall closet (coat closet), this was finished up Saturday…

Closet drywalled!

Outside of the closet (actually done on Sunday)

Next Ryan and Dad drywalled the stairway, this will keep Fitz from digging the insulation out of the wall so he can hide his bone in the pile of insulation he would make.

Walls!

3 pieces high (less than a full sheet to go - but the ceiling has to be done still)

And finally a view of the front hall itself, the exterior wall is finished, the wall leading into the tvroom is finished (so we can install the door now), the wall under the stairs is finished and the wall with the arch is started (ran out of drywall), we also still have to finish the other wall in the stairway area.

Exterior wall finished

The wall under the stairs (hidden here) is finished, and hte wall to the tvroom is finished!

The wall to the livingroom area is started, leaving the easy pieces for ryan and I to manage on our own.

It was a productive weekend, I barely did anything though (never do when they’re drywalling), i mostly hand the screw gun to someone and maybe screw some of the smaller pieces in while the big pieces are getting hoisted by Ryan and Dad.  Much better than when it’s just Ryan and I 🙂

Mom was not sitting idle this weekend either, not only did she cook/clean up, she also picked up the yard and mowed for us!  Something we just haven’t had time for.  While she mowed I weedwacked which I don’t think has happened since early summer at least!

And Sunday evening after getting cleaned up I headed down to my sisters to play with my nephew for the evening!  Then driving up to see my nieces on Monday and spend the day with them!  It was a great break.  Finley is at a wonderful age for playing even if I can hardly understand her ‘conversation’ 🙂  And by hardly I mean she mostly uses 4 or 5 words that have real meaning but she can babble on about something, luckily not caring if I just babble back.  We played princess and shopping and baby doll all day until Emily got home at which time we got into a few bigger girl games.  It was a great day and I can’t wait to see them again this weekend!

In the meantime, aside from working, I hope to get some costume progress made.  Spackling is on hold until costumes are done!