Hi All,

I’m framing 9′ first floor walls and did horizontal blocking about 2′ up from mudsill so that 8′ sheathing would land 4″ into the second floor rim joist (and a 2′ strip of sheathing would run mudsill to the horizontal blocking). This seemed like a reasonable way to tie the wall together. I am planning on sheathing the wall before raising it.

But how would I attach the second floor rim joist? IRC says I need to 6″ OC toe nail the rim joist into the top plate. 

Does anyone have a method for this?
 or should I just do the opposite and  run 8′ sheathing from the mudsill up and horizontal block 2ish feet down from the top-plate? I liked the idea of having the blocking lower, so I didn’t have any conflicts with headers or what not.