More Sea World

Our meet n greet with Sandy. Shannon made our day so memorable. It made the boys' list of "Best Of" for them!

Meg and the Boys in CA

The boys and I came to Nana's house last Saturday for an extended visit and to get away from the the major messes on the addition and remodel. We ate at Gladstones on the way home which proceeded to make Owen throw up all night and Garret feel sick. At least they both got really cool foil sea creatures to take their left overs home in. Welcome to vacation!
In the first week we went to a birthday party, spent 3 days in San Diego, visited Sea World and got up close and personal with the dolphins, spent a day at the beach and an afternoon with Kari and John in Long Beach. We are now enjoying a quiet day back at Nana's.

The trim goes on.

The painters moved right along today - until the massive thunder storm drove them to the new garage. We also passed the HVAC inspection, had more electrical completed, the insulation guys foamed up all the holes, and we tried to pass the electrical inspection. We corrected all of his from yesterday and got his new list of things to fix.

We've got the big doors and color!

The garage doors came yesterday. We can't use the openers yet. We need to get the outlets connected, but we can park in there and get away from hail and tornadoes!

They are also painting the house, adding the trim detail to the pillars on the front porch (brick will go on the bottom), and putting in smoke detectors throughout the existing house. We had the electrical and plumbing inspections yesterday. We didn't fare as well as Garret did in Kindergarten, but the changes aren't too big of a deal and should be taken care of in the next few days.

We are Plugged In... Almost

The electricians and plumbers have worked hard this week and we almost have power to the new spaces. They just need to finish tying in the new board to the old one and then we will have our electrical inspection on Monday. That means Brendan needs to pull or replace the speaker wire this weekend that he and John put in because it is not the right kind for the inspection. The garage doors should go in tomorrow and the painting crew starts early next week. Speaking of paint - (that's all we've been speaking about), we have a new color - High Tea from Sherwin Williams. It is a little green and a little brown. It really makes the Peppercorn look blue green which we didn't like. We are excited by it and look forward to seeing it on the house.