Sorry for the delay....

It's been a hectic month - work, visitors, trips, window shopping, packing, and just life in general - so I inadvertently took a brief hiatus from updating...whoops! Here are some pics to tide you over, and hopefully, I'll have time to post the details tonight!



...come on November 18th!!!!

We've got brickage!!!

Over the past week, we've gotten windows, a fireplace, and half a house of bricks. We're really, really pleased with how the bricks are looking - we're pretty good at picking things out so far!! Enjoy the pictures!

Hopefully they'll be done bricking tomorrow, so more pictures to come...

The Week We Got the Shingles...

Sorry for the brief hiatus - it's been a busy week at work, so I figured I should get some actual work done instead of taking the time to post pictures...

As of today, we now have tar paper, shingles, duct work, and we're wired!! I don't have any pictures of the wiring, but I thought who'd want to see wiring anyways?? So you'll have to live without that for now. Maybe we'll have bricks soon...Enjoy!

Beth made out with Frank Urban!!!!!!

Well it was definitely a slow holiday weekend for the house, but we expected that after the frenzy of progress that was made the previous week(s)... For a status update though, the framing is was* finished, the shingles are sitting out front, and today, they got the plumbing put in and the showers and tubs installed!! Hopefully tomorrow they'll start roofing and rebuild our dormer*.



*Since this is the first house that has been built of this floorplan, they made an oopsy in the plans...the ceiling joist off of the garage had to cut further into the bonus room than the plans indicated, and the dormer was built smaller than the planned square footage called for, so they are going to take out the dormer, and rebuild it bigger to get us back all of the square footage that was lost. Very good solution to the lost space, and Norfolk Homes and the carpenters were great about figuring out what could still be done at this point. We're definitely happy with them!

On a different note, Beth came to see me this weekend!!!!!! (and Cody too...) We had a great time - but I didn't take any pictures of us - very entertaining, lots o' food, and lots o' old stuff! But then they had to leave...sad...

Another day, another board

Saturday brought us a roof, a dormer, a house tour with friends, and a great night of Brewhouse 100 and Monopoly + vodka tonics. What a fantastic day all around!!!

And for the record, the score is Wes and Patrick, 1; Sydney and Amanda, 5...

Rafters make me happy!

That's right boys and girls, we have a second floor! I know, I know, technically, there aren't walls yet, but I think most of a roof and the makings of a floor count for something...

And here are some more pictures for your viewing pleasure!

Maybe we'll get around to packing some more this weekend...
...or maybe we'll just finish Season 3 of Dexter...( ♫ ♪ so good, so good ♪ ♫ )

Sometimes walls are a good thing...

Well, it's only been a week since we last met, but we have a house - or at least what is definitely beginning to look like a house!!! Finally!

I'm sure our neighbors that live out there think we're crazy, but since there's been so much progress and I want a picture of everything, we've been out there every night this week. I love seeing the progress and it's so exciting to see our house coming up right before our eyes! We're so excited!!!

Also(!!!), we finally met our other new neighbors this week. Johnny and Alex are building a house next to ours, and it should get started pretty soon. That makes us happy bc all of the construction will be done at about the same time. And they seemed like fun people, so hopefully good neighbor times to come!!!

Below is a progression of the house over the past 4 days...enjoy!