the house just keeps getting bigger

and now we have a mansion. i'm not sure what other family is going to live with us but i'm pretty sure that we can't occupy the whole house. i know that i can't clean the whole thing. this is four days of hard mexican labor. (i'm not being racist... very few white people work this hard)

this is the section where one of the poor guys fell through the scaffolding and broke either his ankle or leg...we're not sure which

master bedroom

view from master bedroom into master bath. closet is the door on the right hand side of the picture.

view of the great room the green part on the left is the fireplace. then the wall will be built out that far so the other section is built in shelves

the covered patio. we are pumped about this because we weren't sure how far out it was going to cover and now we know. LOVE IT.

the prettiest skeleton in the whole world

on monday they chalked the lines.

at this point i was still fearful that there was going to be no room in this house.

on tuesday they built our house. okay just the walls but it felt like it was FAST.

our lovely skeleton of our home. when we walked through it all i could keep saying was "it's so big. there's so much room" me gusta hispanos.

we got wood

the wood has been delivered. it finally stopped raining so jc(jeff click-the builder) told us they should be framing by tomorrow afternoon.

we had to stop by the show home and pick out new tile since there was a shortage on ours. what is funny is that we like the new tile we picked better than our old one and apparently it was there the first time we looked but we didn't pick it. this is our kitchen stuff. the big tile is the floor. the small tile on top is the backsplash. the stone on the right is what fireplace/exterior accents are goign to be. light paint color on top is main color and the dark paint color is the accent color. also on the very top is the wood stain we picked out...although not the best picture of it.

the drawing plans of OUR house as opposed to "the matthew plan" by jc homes. sweet action.

the wise man built his house upon a (man made) rock

...and the rains came a tumblin' down. look our rock is finished... but word is it's going to rain the next few days so no work for a while. as long as we get good weather for a while they should start framing soon. dan and sharla called us and told us they were pouring concrete. when we went to see it for ourselves later that night it was almost solid already. i almost didn't get to carve our names in the garage floor. that would have been a tragedy. as you can see i prevailed.

if no one knows this...it feels really small when there aren't any walls. supposedly this is normal so don't be alarmed that your house is being made for little people

our lovely two and half car garage.

installed, inspected, and ready for foundation

well apparently things are moving right along. i realize it still looks like a jumble of crap to most people but since i have the floor plan permanently inscribed on my brain i can see the dream finally being made real. the plumbing was put in last week and then inspected this week. if you can see the little green tag that held all the power. they put the sand down and appears they have a bunch more to put down as the big mounds were not part of our landscaping plan.

master bath & utility room plumbing

cole's/guest bath and part of kitchen plumbing

amazing that this can seem "pretty" to me. you'll be happy to know that i did not fall in the large crevasse in the front yard while taking the pictures.

everybody say "thank you hosedraggers"

apparently the field you can see in the background caught on fire yesterday but as you can see no damage done. you can see the stem wall on it's own now and they dug where the plumbing will go. and yes our house number is going to be 1608 in case it wasn't clear

just in case anyone is wondering whose house this is

finally a shot from the other direction. this street is going to be full of police cars...

as you can see they dug for the plumbing. if you look closely you can see a beer bottle. i'm guessing it's courtesy of dan.