Home Sweet Home

The new house is being built really quickly. I guess it was originally supposed to be done in September, but the builder decided to get them done in July. They are still telling us it will be around July 31st before we can move in. Actually the timing has been perfect. We were excited to hear that it would take that long because our lease at the apartment is up on August 1st and it will give us a few more months of savings in our pockets. It's been really fun to walk to the house from our apartment or drive-by after work. We've become stalkers of the house progress.

On May 1st it was just a foundation. This was the house on May 2nd.

And this was the house on Friday, May 8th:

As you can see the 1st and 2nd floor has been framed. We found out on Saturday that our backyard is bigger than the standard lot. The standard lot for our floorplan would have given us 10 feet from the back of the house to the fence for our backyard. We will have 25 feet. We were really excited, even though that means we'll have to buy more grass and pour more cement. It will be a great selling point in 5 years when it comes times to sell.

Here's a picture of what it will look like when it's finished:

We don't know what the color will be, but our house is the reverse version of this one and has more of an arch on some windows and on the porch arches.

My parents will be into their house 4 blocks away in 2 weeks. It's been fun and exhausting to walk the aisles at Lowes looking at blinds, lawnmowers, fans and refridgerators. The house has been such a great distraction for me. I'm so thankful that we will finally be homeowners in July.

This picture was taken from where our fence will be. The hole in wall is the kitchen window where I'll watch my babies play in the backyard.



The view from my parents upstairs front bedroom. You can see our house right now being built, but in a month or so there will be another row of houses that will block our house some.