Two trips to home depot today and we made some good progress on the electrical.  We got the front hall light circuit feed run.

Front hall feed goes to a triple box

The blocks for the outside lights put together (Ryan got to use his pocket hole kit).

Blocks for the outside front lights

We also ordered the front outside lights (the one we bought originally for the side was discontinued so we had to pick something new).  We went with these:

http://www.lightingdirect.com/mediabase/specifications/85596MOOB.pdf

Then we put up boxes and wired the sconce lights in the stairway.  We still need to connect them to the center light at the top of the stairs but that involves getting up in the attic so we put that off until Sunday or Monday.

Sconce light boxes installed in stairway

The checklist is finally getting smaller.  Sunday we’ll remove the porch ceiling in the front that’s still up, that way we can run the wire for the exterior fan.  We may wait to put up the exterior light boxes until the lights show up to make sure we get the right type of box installed.  We still have to run the cable/ethernet lines in the livingroom as well but they’re pretty short since they’re right above the patch panel.  We ordered a new wireless router too that I’m hoping to put in the basement (it’s much stronger), can’t wait for that to come Monday too!

A good New Year’s Eve day!  Now I just need to bake a pie and clean up the house a bit since my brother is coming over Saturday night after our family Christmas celebration.  Then we’ll watch a movie until midnight (very exciting) 🙂