my quirks

ok, I am doing this link thing.
my quirks

1. I hate it when while I am eating I get food on my face, so eating a sandwich or hamburger, I eat it really cautiously. And I can't stand it when others have food on their face. Like crazy game shows that have whipped cream or pizza smeared in their face... hate it.

2. I love to throw things away. I will drink that last of the milk just to throw the jug away.

3. Along with throwing things away, I love to consolidate things, so I will throw things out if I can fit something in a box, bucket ect.

4. I love to vacuum tile. I did this on my mission almost everyday because all of the floors were tile. I love that I have a mess and I can visually see it go away when I vacuum.

5. Like my sister I have to pull the hair out of my brush after I use it. I am also obsessed with taking the loose hairs off my back or arm ect.

6. I brush my teeth in the morning before breakfast. I have been known to wake up in the middle of the night and brush my teeth because they feel nasty.

Ok.... now I am tagging Liz Bates, Debbie Heim, Kelli Packer, and mom.

1. Link the person(s) who tagged you. 2. Mention the rules on your blog. 3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours. 4. Tag some fellow bloggers by linking them. 5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs letting them know they've been tagged.Can't wait to see what is goofy about YOU!!!!

The extension

ON the side of the house we added the master suite, laundry room, dining room and pantry. Here are a few pics of those right now. We still need to put doors on the laundry room but you get the idea.

That door leads to a walk-in closet and behind the door is our shower.

after 4 months

After purchasing a new home in July we have finally moved into on November 7. We were homeless for about 5 days but we finally moved in. We had to be out of our apartment on November 4 so we moved all of our stuff over to our new, unfinished home and stayed the night at our friends house. We had power, gas, and water going by the end of the week so we had our first night in our new home on Friday. Our friends were super generous in letting us stay at their home for 4 nights. During that time, I spent my time at the house putting boxes away and making it liveable. It had no shelves or rods in the closet, no shelves in the pantry or laundry room, no TP holders or shower curtains. Now the house is close to being done. We have a few things to finish up, like caulking lots of little things, fixing holes in the wall, screwing in the sink and dishwasher, and fixing some electrical outlets. WE do have carpet, paint, tile, power water, heat. We even have a deck now. That is the one manly thing that David wanted to do so we have a deck in the back and they finished it in about 3 hours.

We wanted the rooms to be in perfect condition before taking pics but I doubt that will ever happen so we will show you how things are looking now, knowing that we still have saws and drills all over our house.

so here are a few befores and afters. Also if you so desire you can look back at the previous blogs in July and August and see what this house has gone through. David has worked so hard.

The kitchen. Pretty sad huh!>?!

and after... doesn't it look better. There is a bar on the left hand side so it is super open and it looks right into the living room. There is a lot of light and that one space on the wall between cupboards now has some open shelves for cook books. David did an awesome job.

The kids bathroom before... very scary This is the kids bathroom. much better. There is a cupboard behind the door with linens and things (not the store). There is still some work that needs to be done.

We will put some pics on later.

sad halloween

We are sorry to announce that we had a boring and sad Halloween. The whole Hirschi family is and has been sick. Even Fenton has a little cough so we stayed home last night. We wanted to go to a party that the Cox's were throwing but we were just feeling lousy. David is miserable and Fenton has the saddest little cough. Eliza and I are getting over our sickness. SO we do not have any fun or cute pictures to post.
The house is almost livable. We are finishing with the carpet on Monday, the duct work, and hooking up the electrical and gas on Monday. We have scheduled the Certificate of Occupancy for Monday. we will be moved by Monday night and if we don't pass or if the inspection doesn't happen then we will be living on the street, just kidding, we will be staying at our friends house.
The house looks good, with things still to work on. We will have pictures next week when things settle down.
speaking of settling down, it seems that everything always culminates at one time. Truly finishing the house, sickness, Halloween, super Saturday, teaching RS, packing, and moving all happening in a three days time. What to do????

Blue Ridge Parkway

This last weekend we were able to go to the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. It is peak time for the leaves to change colors and also there are a few festivals to enjoy. David and I have made a tradition of going up there in October. The first time we went, I was 8 months pregnant and we camped. The second year we went up Eliza was 10 months and we camped. Well this year Fenton is 6 weeks old and I really didn't want to tent camp with a little infant so I looked into getting a cabin. David was very disappointed that we weren't going camping. He said that I was a wuss and that his son needed to man up and tent camp. So I compromised and looked for the most primitive of cabins. I found a 18 feet by 10 feet cabin that had only 3 sets of bunk beds, a light bulb and a space heater. That meant that we could still have our fire and David could still cook outside but we didn't have to worry about the weather and wind and rain. It was appropriately called the camping cabin. We are sooooo lucky that we did get this little cabin because every night it froze. It was so cold.

We left Friday and took our time getting up there. We stopped and picked some delicious apples at a orchard, took some pics, and had some lunch.

We planned on attending the Wooly Worm festival. this is a festival similar to the ground hogs day, but this determines the winter. They race little fuzzy worms up a string and the winner of all 40 heats is analyzed and the stripes on the worm determine the winter. It is a fun little festival and we raced our wooly worms. We both lost miserably but it was still fun.

We also drove around on some crazy side roads and found a little place for David to fish. It was fun to get lost on some dirt roads that very well have lead us to tennessee.

Sunday we went to church and drove around and enjoyed the beautiful scenery. The colors were great and the weather was much better on Sunday.

We packed up and came home monday. It was a great trip to get away from the house and enjoy the mountains. We both really miss them being close.

The kids did really great on the trip. Eliza loved it and Fenton was a trooper. The downfall of this all is that we are all sick, accept for David. Poor little kids.

The house is coming really close to move in. It is all painted, the tile is in, the bottom kitchen cupboards are in, the bathroom vanity is in. We have the detail work to do and the carpet. We are still hoping for next Friday... we are praying!!!

Fenton David Hirschi II officially

We blessed Fenton this weekend and everything went really well. My sister and her family flew in from Louisville and my brother flew in from New York. It was so great to have them here and support us. We appreciate their sacrifice and willingness to come and be apart of this and apart of our family. My sister, Melinda, made the beautiful blanket for him also.

Fenton did great, no crying during the blessing and he looked so handsome. I felt so blessed to have a healthy boy and a righteous husband to bless him.

Dry Wall

the front with trim before the siding

Our kitchen
leading to the hall and kids bedrooms

front room

We found a really great group that would mud and tape for cheap. they did a great job!!! they got it all done in 3 days and it looks great, the best part is that David did NOT have to do it. We will be ready to paint next week. yeah!!!!! David has started the siding so next week we will be busy.....also we are blessing Fenton this weekend and my family is coming and we are going to put them to work....between college football games of course.