Insulation and Drywall

 Since we are very busy right now, I'll explain what we did and let you add your own caption to all the pictures. :)  Back in July (you can tell I have a lot of catching up to do)  Paw-paw came over to do insulation (with us helping, of course).  His father's business (that him and his brothers now run) is W.W. Nash & Sons Co. so he does lots of professional painting, fire-proofing, insulation, etc. It's a blessing to have him around! :D Once the insulation was done (hot and sticky work), we moved on to our next major project!  Not in the same day of course..it was more like a few weeks later. :)  That was drywall!!  We have a friend from our old church that did some for us before so we got in touch with him to see if he could work for us.  It ended up working out to have his company do the work for us, so that was great!  It's always nice to be able to pay Christian friends!  Now that you know what happened I'll leave you to enjoy some pictures!! :)

 They were very efficient workers! They finished it all (hanging, mudding, sanding) in three days!

 Three happy workers! :)  Before this picture, I had tried to snap a picture without them seeing, but the man in the blue shirt saw me and said "Cheese!" :).  "Wait a minute! Do that again!" I said.  So he did- and I got the above picture! :)

The finished project! :) Ahh..now it looks like a room! :)

Sorry I didn't have any pictures of the installation of the insulation....this will have to do (Do you like my play on words? ;)!

I hope you're all having a blessed week!  This will be it for a little while....we leave for the OBX in two days!! :-D  Pray for nice sunny weather! :)

Joyfully His,

Alexis

Taking down the wall!

Yay!! An exciting day it was when we took out our wall.  No longer was there a separation of old from new- but one big room!  My dear grand-father...whom we call Paw-paw, came over to help us take the wall down on July 23rd (with a little extra work being done on the 24th and 25th).  I should probably say he came and we helped him...he is such a wonderful man of God with a servants' heart- always ready to lend a helping hand wherever (and whenever) he can!  We love him! :)  So here are some pictures!! 

The reason some of these pictures look really blurry is because we had plastic up.  You can see one of the little poles holding it up on the right hand side. :)

 Being the thoughtful man that he is, paw-paw brought the plastic to keep the dust from the...more clean...side of the house. :)

Sorry.  I know this picture is sideways, but, hey, at least I put it on the post for you! :)

As you know, we moved the fridge and freezer when Dowy built the pantry. 

Now, they are no longer up against our wall but in the middle of our new kitchen! :)

Eden was skimming milk (taking the cream from the top of the milk) before the old kitchen wall came down.

Taking out the window!!!!! : D

Judah was very intently watching what Paw-paw and daddy were doing. :)

So, most of you are probably thinking "EEWWW!!! Grosss!!!!!!" but there IS a reason I put this picture here. Whenever we would wash dishes the water would go behind the sink.  We knew it would be absolutely disgusting back there and thus couldn't wait to see it. :)  Yeah, I think we were pretty accurate in our estimation of grossness! :)

A pile of grossness. :-L

YAY!!!!!!!  The drywall is down!!

Daddy using the crowbar to pry a stud loose.

Yes, we have lights in that part of the house now.  Back then it was a little dark. :)

Paw-paw sawing away

I was standing on a ladder to get this picture for you. You should thank me. :)

Working hard.

Here is a video of them taking down the box.  

Just so you have a SMALL feel of how chaotic our home was and is still. ;)

Well, that's it for this post.  I hope you enjoyed it! Have a blessed week!

Joyfully His,

Alexis

Siding the addition!

 Wow.  Long time no post!  We have been extremely busy lately (and still are) but I'm going to try to update y'all on the (not so) recent happenings at the Wassenberg house. :)  The last post on our addition was on "Finishing The Addition Roof".  This post is going to be about putting in our doors and siding the house!

 

Getting to work!

  Un-packaging it (I know that's not a word but when you can't think of a word you just make one up! :)

 Now it is finally ready to go in!

 You know me...I can't resist taking pictures of picture-worthy things! :)

 Ok, I don't know how picture worthy this is, but hey this is one nice toad!

 This picture is here because..I put it here! No, not really (well, yes really in a way ;).  I just thought it was funny how the spider has a fly right next to it!  I guess it was tracking it down! ;)

 Applying glue (I think) to the doorway.

 Multi-tasking.  Go Mr. Woodson! :)

 HEAVE....

 HO!!

 And it's.....

 in!!!!!!!

 Okay...maybe not.  The door was a little short so they had to put some wood in the door frame to make it fit. :)

 Stetting it down.

 Mr. Reynolds running to get something.

 Lydia

 And...he's back! 

 Will it fit?

 .......... :- |

 YES!! It fit! Whew.

 I know this is very awkward looking...but hey, somebody had to do it! :)

The ever-seeing eyes of mother! :)  Just kidding...but she does see everything! :)

 Okay, so currently you have NO idea what is happening in this picture.  Well, we were getting ready to put the other door in and figured that we would have to put extra wood in just the same as before.   Well, we were wrong. :) Yep, you heard me right!  The doors were two different sizes! So we had to take down the wood we had just put in! 

 This is when Mr. Reynolds was making the wood to fit in the 2nd door frame.

 This was when he put it in..before we found out that we would have to take it back out again! :)

 Papa-bear (as he is affectionately called).

 Putting the door back in.

 Now it fits! ;)  If you look at the top of the two doors you will notice that they are different heights.  That's okay though.  The handles may also seem to be in a weird place.  They actually were put like that on purpose.  You see, one door is the "OUT" door (opening to the outside) and the other door is the "IN" door (opening to the inside).  We did this so that if you're inside you use the right-hand door to go out and then when you're coming back inside you use the left-hand door.  I hope you're not too confused! :)

 Um...Hi dad..don't ask about the thingy between da eyes....

Drilling the door in place and we're done!

Now to the siding. :) 

Mr. Reynolds came with a young man on a week day and finished the side with no windows (or doors).  So this time (a Saturday) the crew was doing the other two sides. :)

Here goes!

 SIDING!! Dun-dun-dun.

 Mr. Louis using the snips.

 Mrs. Wren and Mr. Louis with a piece of siding :).

 The completed back-side!

 Mr. Woodson at the vinyl. :)

Caleb and Mr. Hare on the scaffold with Mr. Woodson and Mr. Trusty looking on. :)

That is just about all the siding they finished that day since we were (eventually) putting in a window upstairs. They would have had to re-do the siding if they had finished it completely since we were putting in the window.  We actually put in that window today! :)

So there you have your long awaited update! I (Alexis) will be posting for awhile for Kimber.  She has been very busy working at the barn and doing several photography shoots (not to mention editing them) with more coming up.  So that's why you're stuck with me for awhile. :)  Sorry. :)

Have a blessed week and be looking for the next post coming up in rapid succession!

Joyfully His,

Alexis