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Well we got all moved over the weekend.  We got keys at 3:30pm at our final walk through and then we started moving the apt stuff on Thursday night.  My dad, Mykl, Leandro, and Nick all came over and helped us clear out the apt.  We were able to get all but a couple things moved over to the house that night. 

Friday we both took off and spent the day unpacking and having things delivered.  We got the Washer and Dryer, entertainment center, and bedroom set all delivered and set up.  Mykl and I re-wired the mechanical room and installed the surround sound speakers.  We got the DirecTV and Qwest internet all set up as well.  Jechelle, our realtor came over and brought us lunch and then stayed to help Beka unpack.  We got almost everything unpacked and put in place before bringing in the storage unit stuff.

Saturday we met at the storage unit to complete the move.  Mykl, Trent, Dave, Dan, Jim, James, Leandro, Nick, Ray, Tommy, and Angela all showed up and we loaded up the truck in about an hour.  Drove it over to the house and had it unloaded in about 30 minutes.  We started putting together a few things and putting more stuff away.  I bought some storage racks and assembled them in the crawl space, and then moved a bunch of the baby clothes and boxes down to the racks.

Thank you to everyone that helped us out this weekend and throughout our several moves, we greatly appreciate it!  I will get some new pictures posted tonight of the final product with us all moved in.

Today we finally got countertops. This means that we also set our final walkthrough date. Which also means that we have a date that we are all done. Our final walkthrough will be Monday. We should be receiving keys in the late afternoon on November 20th. It is cool to see the countertops finally. Before all we got to see was a 4×4 sample square. All of the countertops look fantasic. They will be coming tomorrow to finish all the plumbing and mirrors.

They finished the railing yesterday. They stained it and then sealed it. Looks good!

I haven’t posted in a few days because not a ton of stuff has been going on. Some of the clean up work isn’t as excited. So I decided to hold off and post the fun stuff. We finally got news today that the counter top materials came in. For the people that aren’t up to date we are about a week behind at this point. I am going to update the count down to have an ETA of 11/21. I am really stressing because I was really hoping to get all of our stuff delivered and installed before the BYU vs. Utah game on 11/22. I was also hoping to move the majority of the apt next week. Best case scenerio we will get keys at 4:30pm on 11/20, and worst case scenerio is that we won’t get keys until 4:30pm on 11/21. This will be a problem for DirecTV and Qwest installs. Not too worried about the furniture because they all deliver on Saturdays. We got all of the appliances installed yesterday as well as all of the carpet. We also noticed that they installed the gutters around the house. Most of what is left is just little stuff, minus the counter tops.

Here is a Halloween pic from my work party.  Me as a Pimp, Tyler as Spiderman, and Beka as a 50’s chick!  We all got into the spirit this year.

Well it is official! We finally have electricity with a side of light. They came and completed all of the electrical, networking, cabling, and lighting. The central vac guy came today as well. He installed the central vac unit and all of the outlets. We just happened to be pretty excited about the vac pan that we had installed in the kitchen floor. You kick it open and then you sweep all of the junk into it. Pretty sweet! They got all the interior and exterior lights installed and they were all working. Nice to be able to turn on the light and look around for once. They installed all of the interior door hardware as well. The stone guys were still there working when we went to see the house. They had wrapped the front of the house in plastic and had some heaters going. They had all the stone on and were putting in the morter and cleaning up. Outside they also installed our two A/C units.

Today they started the electrical clean up. They got most of the electric outlets in and most of the light fixtures in. As you can see from the bottom picture they have some work to do in the electrical box. They also came and put in all of the wire shelving. It is looking really good. We were most impressed that the wire shelving in the laundry room actually covers the entire length of the wall. Lots of storage space. The garage had two little suprises in it as well. They delivered the two A/C units today. Sure is fun to go there everyday now because they are doing so much each time we go.

They finished the tile on Friday. It looks great! We are very happy with the new color and tile and how close they placed the tile. Very little grout.

Today we got the call that the kitchen counter top is on back order. We don’t know exactly what that means right now, but we could possibly be delayed a few days. We will update you as we get details. They started the stone today. They got all of the stone on the house and most of the pilars done. They also did all the HVAC clean up work. Got all the vents on and the thermostats on. They installed both of the garage doors and garage door openers too. They look pretty good, but we don’t know how quiet they are yet because there still isn’t any power. We purchased the belt driven garage doors so they will be much quieter. Hopefully they will do electrical tomorrow so that we can see the house when we go. Time change makes it dark really quick now.