Here are some of our most recent images from our project!

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Work hard. Play hard. 💯 . Kelsey is ready for a rough plumbing inspection! Laird is ready to keep trying new construction site tricks on his bike. 👍🏻 . Today we installed boca plates (base plate guard so you don’t accidentally nail into plum
No rain, no rainbow. 🌈 . Rough plumbing is soooo close to being done, Kelsey is aiming for an inspection on Thursday 🤞🏻 . Then, our electrician will be back next week to finish up rough electrical. Closing in on drywall each day! 👍🏻 . Until then
Even when he’s not working on plumbing, he’s the glue that holds our family together. 🥰 . Thanks for being an amazing dad, Kelsey. We’re all so grateful for you and how hard you work to help our family achieve our goals. 😘 . Happy
Giving our cedar a little love today! 😘 . I spent the afternoon brushing some oil to the cedar while Kelsey hung out in the crawl space gluing the PVC plumbing together. Despite having to move this huge @littlegiantladders around a million times, I
We’re growing just like the wildflower seeds we planted. 🌻 . We’re doing our best to learn and unlearn and to keep paying attention (and engaging) in the important conversations our country is having. 🌤 . Today Kelsey focused on running
The final two windows are installed!! 💯 . We’re so thankful for our friends who came to help lift these heavy pieces of glass into the channels! Now that they are up, we’re definitely happy that we didn’t compromise and add smaller
Final two windows are ready to be installed tomorrow! 🙌🏻 . Kelsey finished installing the channels and has everything taped and ready to go. We’ve recruited a few friends to help us lift the glass panels tomorrow. Each panel weighs about 200
Window prep underway! 🙌🏻 . Hoping to be able to lift them into place this weekend. More snow is on the way, but it always snows when we do windows, so I consider it a good omen. 🤞🏻 . These are the last two custom windows to get installed and they
Getting the trim above and below the glulam beam done before we move the scaffolding so we can install the last two windows! 🙌🏻 . And, how about that helper on the second level? The kids have really amped up their climbing skills during this projec
Will vacuum for snacks 🥨 . More plumbing is underway. Kelsey has most of the drains figured out. Then, supply lines. Next up, prepping to install the last two big windows. 🙌🏻 . . . #homebuilding #dreamhome #newhome #home #homebuilder #homedesign
Plumbing! Kelsey has been hanging out in our crawl space a ton the last few days. ⭐️ . Spoiler alert - he’s not a plumber by trade, but he’s the best man I know to figure it out and make it right. 🙌🏻 . We had planned on hiring a plumber
New accessory for the house! The electric meter and service disconnect (Kelsey had to tell me the official name 😂) is ready to be hooked up! 💯 . Did we want it on the front of the house, ummm no. Originally, we were told by the utility company we c
We moved the bathtub for the boys’ bathroom in today! 👍🏻 . We’re ready to finish the last of the interior framing, but before we box everything in, we needed to move this gal into place. 💪🏻 . We originally wanted to do a separate tub
Cutting the expansion joints! 😷 . This job was dusty! After marking all of the cut lines using all sorts of fun tools like lasers, we used a black chalk line (won’t stain the concrete) and then gave it a quick spray of clear spray paint. That
Brother beats watching the concrete floor get poured! 🐻🐻 . Wow! What a leap forward today! Pouring the concrete allows us to really be full steam ahead on the interior of the house. Bonus, they poured the three footers for the deck supports too! 🙌
Quote of the day “This is faster than a shovel.” 🤣 . We have concrete coming on Friday for our floors!! After passing the inspection of our radiant heat tubing and wire mesh on Monday, we are so amped we can get a crew in there this week
We’re ready for the radiant tubing and wire mesh inspection! 🙌🏻 . Kelsey has been working so hard the last few days to get all of the finishing touches on the radiant heat floor tubing and wire mesh, including pressure tests in all three zone
Happiest outside. 😊 . Our kids tend to lose their minds if they are cooped up inside too long. So, after an afternoon of breaking up fights, they were totally different boys when they got to use some tools and work on “their farm.” Are y
Hanging out at the future location of our kitchen sink 🕺🕺 . Check out all that wire mesh we installed today! All of the full sheets are in! We have lots of small pieces to install and more securing to do, bit the heavy lifting part of this project
Saturday Sparkle Show! 🎇 . We got started on installing the wire mesh over the radiant tubing today! 🙌🏻 . The wire mesh will give our concrete floor some extra structure and limit the amount of cracks that will happen over time. 💯 . After we get