Thursday May 14

 Today was a good day.

We got a call from the inspector this morning saying he would be by in the next 30 min.

Well, he showed up about 5 minutes later.

The guy was cool.

An agreed, we need to get up into the house to live!

He said that we can get occupancy when we get those last 5 rails in the stairs, and a few other things.

He needed the handrail on the porch stairs to have a better grip.

Easy fix, we will just run a handrail that we have hidden somewhere around this place......

He also said we just needed to get the okay from the plumber inspector and the electrical inspector.

So cool!

Brent called the plumbing inspector right away.

he was the cool guy that owns the antique shop in Nampa.

He said that all he needed us to do is hook up the kitchen sink.

Which really won't be too hard.

But not to HAVE to have the bathrooms finished up right away is a huge relief!!!!!

Of course, we will try to get the bathroom upstairs done asap to make life easier for the kids.

We tried to get a hold of the electrical inspector, and never did today.

So we will try tomorrow and see what he wants to see done to get the occupancy.

So good things!!!!

After he left I did dishes.

Not much running around today.

Except Brent got a candle lit under him and wanted to go pick up a sander and start sanding the bathroom upstairs.

So we went and rented a sander.

It killed him to ask....but he did call some guys to come by to haul it upstairs.

Aaron had already been there all morning, so Brent felt bad asking him.......but Aaron was more than willing.

He brought over Casey Tolley to help too.

It is a heavy bugger!

So we worked on that.

Ya, it was messy :(

We kept working....

Kelsey Webb brought us some yummy dinner tonight!

So great!!!!

After we fed the kids, Dad and I headed back up to sand.

It was so nice for us to work together again.

It seems like it has been forever since we worked together on a project.

It felt good :)

I think he was good and didn't go too crazy.

This sander is not the heavy duty one, because we had such a small space to deal with.

I took a picture of us.....I look terrible.

I look tired, I look sick, and about 15 lbs heavier than I was 5 months ago :(

But it was worth taking a picture to remember because we really did enjoy ourselves.

It is something I think we had been needing.

The floors look awesome!

Tomorrow I will clean it up and throw some stain down!

Yay!!!!!

We have the sander until about 3 tomorrow, so we might try to get some of the downstairs sanded while we have it.

But no rush :)

It feels good to get so close to something we have been working so hard for!

Elsie wakes up every morning the last few days and says 'I'm sick of living in the basement!'

I agree Elsie, I agree :)

But we are so close!!!!!!