House Tour

Here's a little video tour of our house we took today. :) We have more paint and will be getting our cabinets installed this week.

Good Stuff, Bad Stuff....

First, the bad stuff. A few days ago my (Jessie) Grandma "Lake" was in a very bad car accident with a semi. She was air-cared to Toledo, and she's been recovering for the past couple of days from surgery to start reparing her neck / spine, which is broken in three places. Please pray for her and my family.

Good stuff... BJ and I had a great time on our trips this past weekend - BJ snowboarding in WV with the guys, and me in Illinios with my Grandma Marie and Grandpa Rod. I learned more about watercolor painting, ate a lot of really good food, and spent time just hanging out. :)

What our cats do all day....

"Save The Cheerleader Save The World..."

A few months ago Mark Nelson made a comment on his blog about "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World", and how someone should make t-shirts with this on it. I love the show Heros, and thought it would be fun to do just that. There were a bunch of similar shirts on CafePress.com, but thought I'd add my own just for fun... and forgot all about it. So today I come home from work and find a letter from CafePress - and a commission check for $29! Turns out, thirteen people have bought stuff from my "store", from places all over including Hawaii! And I've made another $20 that they'll be sending soon as well! Whoo-hoo!

Want to see my merch? Check out http://www.cafepress.com/modernmerch2007. :)

Move-in Date Approaching!

BJ and I got our approximate move-in date this weekend - March 2nd! It's so crazy to think that we could be in our house in just 45 days! Today they're pouring out front walkway, among other things I'm sure. I had yesterday off for MLK Day, so I spent the day in we’re-moving-soon mode, cleaning and organizing the basement and our closets. My car is currently full of stuff for Goodwill, and I gathered 6 garbage bags of stuff to throw out! We had a lot of junk!

Congratulations Andrew & Whitney!

Congratulations to Andrew & Whitney Jones on their new little girl! She's beautiful!

It looks like a house!

The inside of our house is finally looking like a house! The drywall inside is nearly finished! Here's some new photos including a cutie on the deck, the arch, and some of the insulation we put up this week in the garage.

Insulation Fun....

A week or so ago, BJ and I were showing our house to BJ's dad, and he suggested that we insulate our garage (everything else was already insulated) while we still can - before the drywall goes up. We looking into it and found out that we only had a couple of days to get it done - so on Wednesday evening (in the dark of night with a huge work light) BJ, Jon Lawrence, and I went to town insulating our garage, and it was a HUGE job. We have nine-foot ceilings in the house, so our garage ceilings are 10-feet high. Thank goodness for Jon - we probably wouldn't have gotten it done! It was hard work but fun to know that we had some small part in the building of our house - the rest we have left up to the experts!

Here's BJ and Jon (you can barely see him - he blends in with night) hanging up the insulation....



It's crazy to see the drywall go up in the house (this is our bedroom), because the rooms are really starting to look like rooms!

Annie Chases Her Tail and Then....

Sorry about the horse-scream!

Insulation, etc. (very exciting, I know)...

This is the progress on the house as of Saturday morning. Today is pretty cold, so I'm not sure if they will be working on the outside. We had our insullation blown in sometime last week - hopefully it will save on our heating bills as promised!

In other news, I have the slowest moving cold in the history of colds! Hopefully tonight I'll get some better rest.

You Know You've Been Playing to Much "Ninja Gaiden" when...

The ninja is making me pancakes!

Shutters

I'm so excited to see what our house will look like with shutters that I Photoshopped them in! Here's my creation!

Also, I changed the settings on the blog to take off that moderation thing... that was dumb. :)

More Brick, an Archway, and the Moon!

BJ and I were able to visit our house again today! Progress looks slower now that the outside is basically done, but there still were some cool things for us to see. We have a new archway between our kitchen and family room and some more brick.





I also got to try out my new camera lense tonight with photos of the moon...

Happy New Year!

BJ and I have had a great holiday! We were able to see Tim and Erin last weekend - we miss them a lot and wish we could hang out more often! Here's Tim and Erin with the friendly zoo elephants!



Here's some cold zoo monkeys...



Currently BJ and I are visiting my (Jessie's) parents in Granger Indiana. We went bowling the other night with everyone and it was a lot of fun. We have photos of that crazy event and other Christmas happenings to come soon! In the meantime, here's a couple house photos to hold you over! :)

Windows... and a Purdue Loss...

BJ and I took off for Indy this weekend to see Purdue in a stressful game against Butler. It was sooo close! Here's a shot of the court when we were winning...


Also, we have some windows! Here's the latest...



We were so glad to be able to visit with Chris and Chrissy this weekend! This afternoon we went out for some O'Charleys, gave a tour of the land/house, and spent some time just hanging out at and driving the cats crazy with the lazer pointer. :) It was so good to see them!

We Knew it Would be Fast!

We have floor number two! We got all this in just 5 days! It's been so crazy to see our house all of a sudden there! Thank goodness for wonderful weather!

So sleeeepppppyyyy....

Saw this on CuteOverload and thought I'd spread the joy...

Much progress made, despite the rain...

At 8:45am this morning...



At 5:30pm this evening...



We have a first floor!

Update!

So BJ was heading to bed last night around 2am... from the yard he heard a mysterious thump and a car speeding off into the night.... and the dear was gone!

The Cold Has Come!

Okay, so its officially cold. I should be used to it (coming from 'the bend') but I'm really just a big baby!! In other news... BJ and I went off to work this morning only to discover a dead dear in our front yard! Ew. And, :( for the dear. The county told BJ's mom that we just have to let it decay! What in the world?! Again, ew.

Yesterday BJ took a trip out to see the house progress - not much has changed. They did move the dirt a bit, get the groundwork laid for our driveway, and pour the basement floor. All of which doesn't look too exciting but here's a picture anyway...



It's about 7:30 now and I just talked to BJ - he's still at work getting in some overtime (so far he's been there for 12 1/2 hours and counting!). A bunch of his friends are all there as well, so hopefully it's not too painful. He's says he's working on paying for an upgrade in insulation (the best time to convince us to get a warmer house is right now) and another window (a transom above our front door). What a good hubby! :)

Me, I'm watching ANTM (America's Next Top Model) online and typing this. Want to watch stuff online? Check out this site - http://tv.peekvid.com - they have tons of shows!