Construction - Day 82

They put the cabinets in the house this week. All the doors and hardware are up. The light fixtures have been installed throughout. Tile will be laid in about a week. We went and signed off on the granite slabs that they will be using for our kitchen countertops this week, too.




The stone work is also done on the front of the house, and some of the exterior walls have been painted. The garage doors are installed, and they'll pour the driveway sometime this week.

It's starting to feel like a home to us. We've been trying to go out there on a weekly basis so Trent can get used to the new place. Won't be long now...

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

It seemed uncharacteristically quiet in the family room. I walked in to find this scene... I was dying of the cuteness.

Construction - Day 61

A lot of big steps were taken on the house over the past week or so. I had a walkthrough with the superintendent to look at the electrical options we had chosen about a week and a half ago. The day after, they put all the drywall up. Two days after that, all the stucco was up on the outside. They say that all the new things done to the house from now on will not seem as big of a deal since all the large-scale stuff is done.

Either way, it seems a lot more real to us now. We can envision where we want to put furniture, how we will paint the walls, and what we will do with the landscaping. It took me a year to put in the back yard in our current house. I can't wait to get started on the new one...


There is an area between the front door and the covered portal that we will make into a small courtyard. We'll build a wall between the two walls shown on the sides of the photo, and put a gate in the portal. It'll be a nice little private area that separates the house from the street.


Doors will be installed next, so we'll need to stop by the sales office and pick up a key next time we go to check it out. We also set up our final walkthroughs. We are scheduled to have the keys delivered on April 20. Good times...