 This is our new morning routine y'all. Last week, we finally completed our solar system. After 598 days and lots of hard work, we have power. It's still winter. This is our first week living with full power at our cabin in the woods. Thank you Squarespace for sponsoring this week's video. Coffee with a view. You and the panel. There's nothing we love more than being self-sufficient and doing things ourselves. Time to get to work. Unfortunately, there's two sides to our ceilings. Time to make that side look like the side. But the silver lining was we are finally good at the taping and the mudding. It's the hanging the drywall part that we are not so good at. Especially on this roof. I get amped up. Time to set up the work site. Grab the saw horses. So heavy. Here we are. To the garage I go. How many trips today? So this is the last. Number one? First and the last. I literally think this is the best line you've ever drawn. It's perfect. Lost to the exacto. Why do we only own one exacto? That's the question. We came down to business today. We want to knock this drywall out of the park. Out of the woods. Out of the woods. We're going to knock it all the way to Halley. It's going to be great. Halley. Are you ready? We're doing it everyone. First pieces up. We've been avoiding doing this for a few weeks. Not no more. Today's the day. Whoa, maybe you're not supposed to cut on that side, eh? We're not supposed to make any mistakes. Don't even worry. Your taper and mud are here. So we're going to get to work. Every piece that we're adding onto the ceiling is making us so excited. Because after this side of the ceiling is done, we will see no more purple anymore. Ba-ba-purple. Sing it. Ba-ba-ba! Wow, are we like a singing channel now? Listen up, y'all. Because this is it. The drywall that we're hanging is perfect. The first row is completely done already. That went up in record time for us. I can't even believe at the speed we're moving. We're on to the truss level. This entails cutting out every single truss on the ceiling. And the lights. It was a bit tough last time. I don't know what happened. Second time in a row? But I think we are gonna take our time today, stay focused on the measurements, and then once we get another, we'll have a heck of a time. AKA Jasmine, stop putting the camera on me. I need to focus. Yeah. And then that needs to be cut down. Probably as I'm only asking, because that's what we made a mistake on last time. I think I have cabin fever. What do y'all think? Should we do a segment where Izzy takes over the vlog each week? I don't think she likes that idea. This just goes straight up my back. Yeah, but we're cutting out the truss on the right side, right? We have this to work already here. I have Bella's favorite cookies. Oh, someone's here. I'm getting bored in the woods. Might be getting bored in the woods too. Go away, I'm busy working. Bald. Oh, listen to this beat. She's so focused. Real focused. Remember the little piece, Jasmine. Wasn't me. We're fine, we're fine. We've already made such progress today. It's not even three. But I'm pretty confident that by the end of the day today, come nightfall, this ceiling is gonna be 100% drywall. I believe in us. I believe in miracles too. Nice kitchen. Gotta make do with what you got. Put my hat. 15% of you hit the notification bell. Let's increase. I'll give you a carrot. Wait till you see these loaded pierogies. They are going to blow your mind. Wish I could share. After house off? Loaded pierogies. When we load the pierogies, we load them so much, you don't even know there's pierogies under there. It's our lucky day, four and a half pierogies. But if anyone knows how good pierogies are, you know you can eat at least 12 pierogies per person. However, if I eat 12 pierogies, I'm not getting back up there. Who thinks we're gonna get back up there? Who thinks we're gonna go? Wouldn't be a Van Wives vlog without the food dance and those eyes. I was just saying that I officially got cabin fever. I feel like I've been in here for six months. I don't want to be in this room anymore. But it's a home. Double decker is up. We have the last bit of scaffolding connected. This means that we are at the 90% drywall completion as a whole in the entire cabin. This is the home stretch. We may not be drywalling for quite some time. All right, so spell however you want to spell it. Chips are flying through this side. Literally it's almost seven o'clock. I have to say, slow and steady definitely wins the race on drywall. When we did this side of the ceiling, we married the edges perfectly. I know a lot of people don't like that saying but they were like this. This side however, we have some gaps which means Jasmine drywall canning may no longer be that. It's definitely gonna be a lot more challenging though compared to this side. Good thing I've had practice now though. I should get it. I'm already done half the ceiling. I got so excited. I literally didn't even help Crystal clean up. I just said, I'm taping and muddin' girl. And as you can see, I've been taping and muddin'. That's one reason why we love doing stuff ourselves is because even though it took us three ceilings in order to get it, we have now learned a new skill that we can bring anywhere in life. It's just a really good feeling. Great feeling. To finally get something. Okay, how cool that the entire ceiling is drywalled and we did it ourselves. All by ourselves. I just can't wait to look at it and be like, we did that. We did it. Cause look at it. It's lookin' bad everyone. Wow, eh? Holy smokes. I'm obsessed with it. I'm glad we attempted it. Done. I bet you thought we were gonna have day four right now in there. Not anymore. Only one day everyone. Welcome to the bakery. This morning we are putting on a special show for our girl. Done, look at that sniffer. Yummy. Oh my gosh. Today a very special girl turns 10. Double digits, Dobby. Double digits, my bear. I love you a little Wolfie. Are you crying? You were crying. I know. I think I just started crying when I saw you next door. As much as it's a happy day of Bella turning 10, it's also a sad day cause she's getting older. She's my first child. We've been through a lot together. I didn't know this birthday was gonna go like this. She has no idea. We have to be strong. Happiest 10th birthday in the comments because she's been celebrating her birthdays on YouTube with our community and our pack for so many years in Mexico, in BC, a little bit of everywhere. I love her. I wanna clone her. I gotta go. Good girl, Vera. You're gonna have a cookie. We'll see you later everyone. We're gonna just enjoy every minute today. What? The day we have been waiting for is finally here. You've been wondering why we've been hanging up in the ceiling for so many weeks in a row. It's because of this package. You had the happiest girl alive? Happiest. I am an eager, eager gal to get this out of these crates. An eager Cinderella? Oh my gosh, I can't wait. Oh, my fear was it was gonna go this way off the side as well. In these two big crates behind me, what is your best guess at its contents? Oh, it's amazing. Incredible. It's so nice. Oh my gosh. Feel this. Wow. Do you love it? I don't trust. All right, watch this. Sanding our seams. 98%. That is incredible. I've had so many things powering today. Fridge, toilet, internet, server, how to shower. And I'm sure there's a billion other things that I don't even know. Phones, camera batteries, drill batteries. At 7.42 at night. When people said drywall was messy, I didn't really understand until right now. I have never been this happy to see rain before in my life. Bye bye snow. Good morning everyone. All of you were right. Morning. Morning. A lot of you mentioned this in the comments. It's true. Sanding is the hardest part of drywall. Not necessarily the actual action of sanding but because it's a very tedious and meticulous job and we still need to sand all the seams three more times and mud them. Truthfully, I don't know if I can do that anymore. The hardest part also is living in this construction zone. I don't know if you can see my eyes but it's a mass drywall. I guess this is why they say don't live in a construction zone. Better news, looking fabulous. We are running our coffee machine off our house. That sounds so silly. Oh, it does sound silly but everything right now is running off of the solar system. It's an amazing feeling. It just doesn't feel real. Every time I plug it in still, it feels great. Plug these into walls in a house. It's so cool. It sounds so silly. What you've been craving? For a while. I feel like toast, fresh toast is a sign of summer, baby. And sprouts. Yeah. It's your birthday week, right? You can eat from the table. Birthday week. So obviously we're still obsessed with checking our battery voltage. You always will be. I don't think it will ever end for me. I think it's so fascinating. And today on a cloudy day, our batteries are sitting at 85%. And that's with everything plugged in right now. We're not in the negative zone, which is a good thing. And that's why you go heavy on solar in Canada and you have a big battery bank just because you have a lot of days that are gray. We've actually had a big storm last night. A lot of snow came and now a lot of rain's coming. And it's like heavy wet snow. We may have to go check the road because I have a feeling it's not looking so hot. Hey, y'all, the sun came out. Can't even see me. Ooh, I'm a ghost. Ray bands on your face. It's actually like bright from my eye, too. Now you can see us. Woo! Every time I walk by this crate, I'm just reminded what's sitting in our house and I cannot wait to do. But duty calls. Our winch broke. So here we are. Tighten it up. Oh, God. Good. Got some clearance for road because we were notified that there was a lot of trees down. I've only seen two. But there are a few that are definitely gonna be in the way, especially if we ever wanna get deliveries anytime soon. Like this one, that is just hanging just low enough over the road. Oh, it's gonna go. Aw, it's so fun. You look so cute doing it. You're actually getting really good. Such a good time. To the next tree. We junked it up and now let's clean. I'm in. You in? I think I love the smell of... No, gas, you're weird. Oh, I love the smell of chainsaw out here. Who loves the smell of gas? I need to know. Because apparently a lot of people do. Yeah, I'd be like 50-50. You think it's 50-50? Oh, yeah, or like 70. It's 50-50 like hard shells and soft shells for tacos. That is quite the debate. Oh, yeah. Oh, in the winter you should deal them all because I'm pulling them out of the blanket of snow. Oh, yeah, get off. Whoa. Good job, Jazz. Well, everyone, we have our trail back. It's looking mighty fine. Now we can finally come down here with the UTV and the ATV again and the bikes. And you know, you don't have to worry about hopping over a giant log. Wow, I need to get my stamina back. I thought living in a van in Mexico made me weak. Living in a cabin for eight months made me even weaker. In the winter. In the winter. Whoo. All right, start by carrying my saw out of here. You got it, queen. All of you have been telling us you need a fan in that bathroom. We know, we know, we know. We're just a little slow. And we had no power until last week. So now we have a fan. Bent. Again? Bent. Again, sorry? Stop it. Ha ha ha. Please extend. No, they don't. Yeah, they do. Another positive for your birthday. Officially understand why you were all confused if we were putting a ceiling fan in here or not. We probably, I mean, we 100% should have mounted this box first. We're learning. This thing isn't a perfect square. Like, why? We are making our own template because it didn't come to one. And? And? Where's Mark? Where's Mark? S-M-R-T. I am smart. S-M-R-T. I mean, S-M-A-R-T. Good job. Thanks. We are absolute rookie builders. Sometimes I wonder how we even made it here. We're trying to put a fan in an already finished roof. We've made it as far as putting a hole in the ceiling but I think we might just have to pull the whole plywood down or find another way around it. But in the meantime, tacos. I had an idea during lunch. There we go. It's coming. It's got to get out there now. There's boring people out there. I'm just kidding. I'm excited and I'm allowed to be. We finally got it in the ceiling and I'm so excited. Look at this. In the ceiling. And beautifully done. And now I get to be an electrician. Jasmine is currently wiring up the bathroom fan up here in the attic. Well, Adam stole my Marat. We don't know that, guys. You can't say that. I'm not allowed to say that but I'm pretty sure Adam stole my Marat right now. I'd say you stole them. You haven't even looked to our number yet. I don't know. Let's go look for Marat. Yay. Marat. Sorry, Adam. Marat. I'll let you go into the house as a dream compared to a van. You're spinning. Oh my gosh. What do you want to be? Crush that guy. Housers. Welcome to the attic, everyone. I'm sitting on top of the spare room and I cannot get off these two bikes. Oh, I'm going to go right through our drywall job. But I think this is going to be your job. I'm already getting a little frustrated. Yeah. What fun is this? Yay for once. We have enough pieces for a project. I even bought a spare. What we're doing now is mounting the exhaust band. So that way, all of that moisture from the shower and everything else will get sucked up through the fan, through the ducting, and out of the house. Through this. Bam. All right, let me know what's straight, please, because I'm not very good at that. Looks good. Giver. The second-loss connection. Beautiful. Last but not least. Just so you can all hear it. That is sick. That is a fan, everyone. A fan install. Fan install. Crushed. Crushed. Crushed. Crushed. It's such a good feeling. It gets a little bit more comfortable all the time. Clean, instant, cold, or hot water. Add your fingertips. That's a pretty big deal. Good night, everyone. Thanks for spending another day with us. Rr, rr, rr, rr. Head to squarespace.com for your free trial. And when you're ready to launch, squarespace.com forward slash van wives for 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain. You can get a website up and running within just a few hours. Start selling goods, create a brand, display your work online, a professional place for people to find you. Generate revenue through gated members-only content all in one easy-to-use platform. You don't need any experience or prior skills to get started today. Click the link in the description.