What Is A House Worth....Not A Body Part!?!

 It was a Sunday evening and we decided to run up to the house to make a a plan for the week and to make sure we had everything we needed. On Saturday Matt had bought a biscuit joiner to build the timbers in the family room. I didn't think we needed one but everything Matt had read said  that is what works best. He was trying it out on a small piece of wood and the wood slipped and the blade went right thru Matt's thumb. I was in the house and heard Matt yell that he needed some help. Its hard to describe but when he yelled I knew something was very wrong. I ran to the garage to find him bent over holding his hand with blood quickly pooling below him. I yelled for all of the kids and had Hallie and Gracie get the 2 younger ones in the car. Matt thought maybe we didn't need to go to the ER but I thought different. I immediately called my friend Amy and told her the situation and asked if I could drop the kids off to her. She was great and said bring them on over. We then drove to McKay Dee in Ogden. By the time we started to head for Ogden the adrenaline was wearing off and Matt was in quite a bit of pain. We got checked in and settled in the ER. Although the waiting didn't feel terribly wrong the pain was just getting worse for Matt. When we got our room they looked at it, took some xrays, and then started cleaning it up....but first injected some numbing medication. It was pretty yucky and another reminder why I work in the ER for sure.

After the xray came back and found there weren't any bone fragments. The blade had cut clean thru the bone. They were able to have the Dr that does all of their stitches come in. Matt ended up with 11 stitches and did great once they got it numbed up.

They sent us home with 2 weeks of supplies to clean and dress it. The dressing changes were so painful because no matter how much cream we put on it the gauze would stick and almost open things back up. The pictures below were 2 days after the initial injury and the first time we dressed it. 

It really slowed down the finish work at the house but luckily most of it is done. I try to help but I'm not as skilled as Matt for sure. It's super frustrating to him not to be able to just do what needs to be done. After 2 weeks we took most of the stitches out and it seems to be healing.

I'm so glad it wasn't worse and that his thumb was able to be repaired. 

6462 Summit Cove-Nov 8th-14th Finish Work Continues, Cabinet Install Begins, and Painting

Getting a little closer everyday. Somedays it feels like we have been at this forever and other times it seems to be going quickly. Now that the drywall is up and taped they are working on getting everything textured.

Its so nice to see things starting to get painted. It seems like such a final step and so much closer to being done.

These stairs were such a pain in the butt. They each had to be built twice because they were put in wrong. It was very frustrating but as you can see Milo now agrees they are right!

I am loving the accent that these faux beams are adding to the space. It was something we wished we had done in the firt house so Im happy we are getting to do them now.

Tile is making great progress and turning out really well. First its hard to pick tile you like and blends together...then you have to pick grout. We decided to go with dark grout so it would be easier to clean.

They delivered all of the cabinets but started with the bathrooms. They seem to go in pretty quickly

The gym is becoming very handy for quite a few things. The cabinet guys put all of the basement cabinets in the gym so they wouldn't be in the way for painting.

Its so nice to pull into the house and find people here working.

Matt did an amazing job with the bunk room beds. They turned out just like we wanted

Reading nook. I really think this space will get used a lot. The girls have been really excited picking out lights. It was a great use of this space.

The basement family room doubles as lumber storage. Can't wait for the day when all of this is where it goes permantly in the house.

Basement laundry. I think this will get used a ton for wet towels, swimsuits, and snow closes that need a place to dry.

Decided to add some shiplap

Rock Prep

This weekend I was wracking my brain what I could do to help take things off Matt's to do list so I took on the mechanical room. I think it turned out pretty good

We finally got some snow...everyone is pretty thrilled about that