Siding Complete!

Our visit revealed a completely sided house!! Most of the shutters are up as well. The upper left windows are awaiting shutters but they are a different size and will hopefully arive soon. The construction office should be calling us for our first walk through of the house to verify our choices for outlet locations, cable, and phone jack locations. We can't wait to add some pics of the interior framing!

Unfortunately our closing date has been moved back yet again. We are now supposed to have a finished home in early June. We continue to learn the value of PATIENCE and it's not easy.

Luckily there will be a great finished product and hopefully it will have been worth all this waiting. :-)

Do you like tan?

If you like tan you will be happy to see our house is starting to be sided! If you don't like tan then hopefully you will be happy that we have more progress! Our weekly visit revealed some siding and a roof on our little covered porch. We also got to peek in the windows today. Very exciting. I'm pretty sure by next week we will have the entire house sided so stop back for an updated picture.

Windows

The new additions this week are completed framing on the exterior and windows. It also appears that the stairs on completed inside. Hopefully next week the roof will be done!

We can't wait for spring!

A Mid-Winter Surprise!

Our Saturday visit revealed some welcomed progress!! We drove down the street to find almost two levels of our new home framed!

Enjoy the pics !

Before the snow.....

Before we were pummeled by a winter full of snow they were actually able to pour our concrete foundation. We were very happy to have that done before it got too cold and snowy. The only pictures I have of the foundation are downloaded upside down. I won't hurt your brain by posting them. We checked back many times but the lot remained without a foundation for over two months because of our position on the build list. It's been frustrating waiting so long but after talking with the construction office I found out there was a construction delay for the entire development due to the delay of underground gas and electric lines. This delay set the process back over 6 weeks. There was nothing to do but wait. Happily on one visit in early January we noticed some homes in Phase I were occupied by homeowners. That was a sign of progress to us. We can only go forward!

Curious about colors?

For those of you who have seen the model pic below, you know this doesn't look like our house. Well, it's not. But I'm putting this pic up so you can see our colors. We will have the same exact colors (tan siding, midnight navy shutters, white trim, and black roof.) Can't wait to see the colors on our house!

Please pray it stays warm enough for our foundation to be poured :-)

A hole in the ground

We have a hole in the ground with what I'm told are Footings. Not sure exactly what a footing is so I'm learning as we go along. Apparently this thick level of concrete will hold the entire weight of our new home. With two floors of 9 foot ceilings the house will be pretty high, so those footings have their work cut out for them. The next step is our foundation. The frame for the foundation is going in this week and the foundation (ours is poured concrete walls) will most likely be constructed the beginning of next week. More pictures to come and I'm also going to try and snap some shots of the rest of the development and those *CUTE* street lights that add such a nice touch to the curb appeal!