Been a while since I updated!  We were just very busy with working on the house, moving, vacation, moving some more.  The week after insulation we spent prepping for sheetrock.  The first day of our vacation I spent the first 1/2 the day finishing the electrical (wiring smoke detectors, washer, dryer, last light).  All the sheetrock prep we hired my neighbor to do, just filling in corners with nailers, fixing fir strips, removing nails etc.  So there wasn’t much else for us to do except the last bit of wiring.

While on vacation my neighbor and our contractor hung the sheetrock in the master bedroom, the hallway and the back bedroom.  It took 3 days to hang everything (and we lost a day because the sheetrock didn’t show up the first day even though I was guaranteed it would be there by 8am!)  Not a good way to start our vacation 🙁

Master bedroom

Another view

Our neighbor spent the rest of the week/weekend taping and when we got back on Saturday he had just finished taping all the seams.  He had 3 days the next week to spackle and he got the hallway and master bedroom all done.  The back bedroom is the only thing left (needs a bit of spackle) and it will be ready for sanding and painting!

Hallway

Hallway from the other end

Back bedroom – in progress

Back bedroom

The list of what to do next is long.  We need to focus on finishing up the bit of painting we have left outside, finish the porch/deck (stain the deck!) before the weather gets cold.  The rooms need to be sanded and primed, then trim installed, doors installed.  Lots of painting etc.

We’re going to get really good at the 3 hour drive on weekends to work on the house (out friday night, back sunday).  That means with someone watching Alex we’ll get 1 person working all day saturday (2 during naptime) and sunday morning.  We’ll probably drive sunday naptime so we get a little time to relax on sundays before it’s back to work.  We’ll see how this goes in September, by October we may be leaving Alex with the grandparents to take a weekend out alone and really make good progress.  Until we start to go out, it’s hard to say how long this will take us but our goal is by spring to be done!  Until then we’re living in 2 places 🙂