Plumbing & Concrete

They did all of the plumbing this week. Skylar and I rode out there late one night and checked it out. She has more fun going down there to see the progress. It is so exciting that she is just as excited as we are. Here are some pics of the plumbing....

They did the concrete on Wednesday. We were hoping we timed it good so we could brand our new house. We barely made it...Skylar, JT and I arrived just as they were finishing up so we were able to vandalize our new house! Yay! I am no going to lie, we were a little nervous. It did not help any that the two people working on the concrete did not speak any English. I said we want to write, can we write? I had to ensure them that it was indeed "our" house. They understood me enough, so one of the guys grabbed the water jug and was going to make a wet spot for us. We found a spot that was not dry yet so we wrote in between the garages. My hand was shaky so it's not perfect, but it is to us! We tried to get Sky to trace her hand print but she did not want to. I just let her have the nail and go to town. To other people, Sky's drawing will look like the concrete people did not do their job but we sure love it! We will forever have those spots.

Framework

They have our framework done! We drove down there last week to see the progress and our new neighbors came over to say hello. They are so sweet, they have 2 kids that are a little older than Skylar but not by much. We probably talked for about an hour. They are excited to finally have neighbors. We even went inside their house for a while to see some of the stuff they had picked out as far as floors, counter tops, light fixtures, etc. They offered us something to drink and even asked if we needed bread to go feed the ducks at the park. So sweet! Already feels like home. It is so nice to meet nice people and Jonathan and I have not stopped talking about them. I just left the property today and told them where we wanted our outside faucets to be. They are doing the plumbing today and pouring the concrete tomorrow. Next comes the fun part...The framing of the house! YAY! These two pics are from last week.

This is our bedroom! This is where all the magic will happen. ;)

The 9th...

Just realized something crazy....In June, July and August I posted a new blog on the 9th day in all three of those months. Crazy! Just noticed that. Apparently that is my writing day.  :)

House plans

So we were supposed to have already started building our house now, but we had major issues with our other lot. It was two lots that we were combining into one and the city was being very picky telling us that we could only put our house a certain way because of the other lot. We pretty much could not put anything on the smaller lot, BIG mess, so we told our builder, FORGET IT! Jt and I were very upset and mad so we drove down to that neighborhood and after much talk and thinking...we ended up finding a lot we liked just as much. We called our builder and he said that was not his lot and the owner of it was holding out and wanted to much money but he would call him anyways. We have had so many issues with houses this past year, I just knew that it wouldn't work out. But...the owner actually sold our builder the lot at a good price so we still get to live in the neighborhood we love and our perfect house! This all happened about 2 weeks ago, so the builder told us it would take about 2 weeks to get all of the paper work transferred over and then we would start. We drove down there the other day just because and they had cleared off our lot! HUGE step for us! Especially since we have been waiting on this since April/May! We met with our builder this week and discussed how we wanted the house to face and little details and Jt told him that we will be burning a lot of gas coming down here to see the progress. He said well come on! Very nice guy! He is a pilot and does this on the side. Can we say bank rolling.... :) Anyways, Jt took a drive down there today and we officially have an address and they have put our lumber on the lot! Again, HUGE step! We are starting to get a little excited about the process. With the wedding and the house it is a lot to take on and we sometimes get stressed. It is mainly from the house crap not going right so now that the house is rolling, hopefully it will ease us a little better and will be fun! Here is our first picture of our future home together!

This is the one Jt took today! Progress people...Whooo hoo!!