Baby's First Snow

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!! Wednesday came with the first snow of the year, and the first snow for our house. Thankfully we don't own the house yet so I don't have to shovel the DRIVEWAY yet. That's right, the only thing we weren't sure was going to go in before the winter really came is done. The driveway got poured Monday afternoon. Garage floor was in last weekend, and the basement floor is done as well. I'm pretty sure that means all the concrete work is done. And you can also see the garage door is in.


Other new pieces include wiring, gas line for the dryer, and light fixtures.

Also of note, we bought our fridge, washer and dryer Sunday. Hadn't really planned to but Lowes has 10% off all appliances, plus $100 gift card and free delivery. We got everything for well less than we planned on.

I think the stonework is the next to happen, and pretty sure the interior drywall work will begin shortly.

Close the door, it's cold out!

Truthfully, even if the door was closed, there's still a gaping hole in the front of the house where the garage door will be. However, as of a week ago we didn't have doors, or windows for that matter, and we do now!


We also have two bathtubs and some very rough plumbing in. Gone from the inside are the support beams that you could see in the last set of pics, which in my untrained opinion means either the house is now stable or soon to fall down.

No new news on a complete timeline, however we think drywall might be up this month. Once drywall is up, they should be able to give us a pretty solid timeline. We have a meeting next Monday to meet some of the other people who have bought houses on the street. I think it's nice that the builder puts this together to try to get everyone to meet before we become neighbors.

Anyhow, just wanted to get a couple more new pics up. We've never put one of the back of the house up before, so here you go. The back faces west so until they build more houses behind us, we should get some pretty cool sunsets over the field.

It's a House

I don't know much about building, let's get that out of the way right up front. I do know that when I saw our lot on Monday, just 6 days ago, it was a hole with a couple of 2x6s sitcking up in the air.

Here's what it is today:

I mean, that's our house!!! Walls, stairs, studs (not just me), rooms, window openings. It's all there. I got to walk into my house, and you could tell where all the rooms of the house were. I really didn't expect this much to get done in one week. That's why I'm not a builder. When I turned the corner and saw this, I was amazed.

It's been a big weekend, Amy's cousin Beth was in town. She is an interior designer and we spent some time talking color with her on Saturday. We came to some decisions and she had some great ideas, hopefully she'll be willing to help us along the way. We also picked some light fixtures that Amy and I both like a lot, and that's not easy to do. And with the house being up, it was a lot easier to start picturing the finished product.

This is looking into the house from the front door. To the left are the two smaller bedrooms and a bathroom. Straight ahead is the living room (both windows are in the living room), the opening you see to the left is the doorwall off the kithen, and to the right is the windows in the bedroom.

This is Amy standing in our living room, kitchen to the left, our room to the right. So needless to say, we're pretty fired up. Not sure what the next step is (feel free to guess, the winner gets to help paint the room of their choice).

Oh, just a follow up from the previous, the new Third Day is awesome! Their site (www.thirdday.com) has some clips of the songs, well worth it.