Weekends #7 & 8

I have been slacking on keeping up with this thing!!  The house is moving along and Charlie and I should be living there within a week! Yay! Don't get me wrong, it'll be pretty rustic but with one good bathroom and our mini kitchen set up we will make it work. 
I missed blogging last weekend because I was visiting Aunt Polly & family in Chicago and Aunt Julie & family in Indianapolis . . . ok, I really went to see my newest cousin baby Aydan!! Charlie worked on pulling out the old plumbing and installing the new stuff.  I think we (or maybe just "I") really under estimated just how much plumbing is in a house and how long it takes to get in!
This past weekend, Charlie's sister Dani and my brother Kyle helped us out and we got a lot accomplished.  The bathroom demo was almost completely finished and then cleaned up! Dani helped all over the house - she's a jack of all trades, demo to yardwork! Kyle is the demo king.  He makes super short work of knocking out plasterboard and taking out copper pipes. 

Aydan James O'Connor (my cousin Krissi's baby)

I'm a little sad posting this as most of the tulips are gone.  :-( We are having drain tile installed around the outside of the house so they have to dig up our flower beds.

My cousin Drew told me I needed some new outside shots since all I had previously posted was the middle of winter.

The front steps are being demolished as I type this to make way for drain tile.  I'm sad about that too. I liked sitting on them.  :-)

The current state of the kitchen/dining/living room.  As you can see, the kitchen is full of junk on the left.  Our makeshift kitchen is actually in the living room.

Our temporary living room.  This room will eventually be my office, but we were told we should use one of the "finished" rooms as a living room so we could "get away" when needed.

The bathroom formerly known as "pink."

RUNNING WATER!!!!  Charlie got some plumbing installed a week ago and he hooked up this utility sink in the basement.  It was a very exciting day! We had no running water up to this point. AT ALL.

More plumbing! And a new hot water heater! Yay!

Charlie's plumbing apparatus.