SIDING

We made a trip to the house today (Sunday, 9/27) to show the home off to my Mom and the DeRemers. When we pulled in I got super EXCITED....we had siding!!!! We gave them a tour and everyone was very impressed with the progress for being on workday 19. Day 20 starts tomorrow....
Here are the pictures....
this is the side yard

the side of the house with siding

from the front

close to the front door

The house from the sidewalk. The scaffolding is a great touch and won't be there much longer....

Walk thru

Quadrant periodically offers its customers the opportunity to tour their home. Their safety policy opposes unescorted site visits so the framing walk was a good opportunity to go inside the house. (Yeah, I know).

The Framing Walk is set up for the same day that the final structural inspection is supposed to happen. The Site Superintendent and I met on site at 8:00 AM on Friday and room by room, we explored the house looking at the methods, materials and layout, and discussing how things work.

We also discussed the exterior concrete flat work. While the back slab will have to be rectangular, I adjusted the location to offset it toward the up-hill side. The front walk will lead straight away from the door and make a 90 degree turn to the driveway and leave us a 4 foot wide path along the garage wall that will allow us to plant a few trees to make that wall look a little less imposing.

I have to say, I'm impressed with not only the speed at which they do the work, but the quality is good too. The materials and execution are very reassuring--we are getting a home built at the level of quality that I would expect if we generalled it ourselves. I can't wait to see the finished product.

Electricity & Gas

The electricity and gas lines went in this week. The inspection took place on Friday of the walk-thru. So here are a few pictures of the work being done....
The beginning of the electrical process...lots of wires

the wires coming from the ceiling that are being distributed throughout the house

the gas pipe line in the garage

the fireplace and mantle

from the staircase

Electricity Panel (finished)

Furnace and more...

Thursday and Friday, they installed the furnace, started electrical, and wrapped the house to start the siding process...
Pictures taken 9-19-09

Furnace from directly below...in the garage

This is the start of the fireplace....framing being done and the girls took full advantage...Avery playing "Mrs Claus" and Natale is hanging on and swinging from it like a monkey...silly girls!!

siding was delivered this week

this is the color of our house with white trim....
Tuscan olive= creamy light olive green=pictures to come

our house is wrapped for siding

And a picture of roof and a wrapped house...
more to come....

Windows, a door and MORE!!

We have Windows and a ROOF with shingles!!!


Papa with his girls taking a peek out the side window


Entry windows, we are planning to install window seats that are also storage for the kids toys


Front windows

AND LOOK.....

our front door!!

Plumbing was a BIG Project this week

plumbing in the kitchen....

toilet hole in the master bathroom

Hall bath tub/shower combo

Master soaking tub and stand-up shower

And the plumbing was to be finished and inspected by the end of the week!!

Seahawks Game

At 8pm last night, we got a phone call from Joe's Uncle Dave. He was offering us, their 4 tickets, to the Seattle Seahawks home opener. Joe quickly said YES!! But first we needed to make some arrangements. I was right in the middle of wrapping some birthday presents for a party we were to attend Sunday afternoon. Joe called our good friends (party hosts) to let them know we had this opportunity with the tickets. He was COOL with it and said have FUN...(thanks for understanding Andrew and Jessica...we owe you one)
So, next was figuring out what we were going to do with the girls. My sister and niece had been invited to the party as well so we worked it out that my sister watched the girls and took them to the party and then my Mom met my sister in the evening and brought the girls home for us....thanks Krissy and Mom for ALL your help!!!! We had a great time at the game...and its nice to get a date with the hubby...which turned out to be a double date with our friend John and his new lady, Leah.
Me and my Honey!

John & Leah

GO DEFENSE!!

Cheering for the starters...fireworks

And we can't forget the Cheerleaders!!

We had a GREAT time at the game and it was a GREAT start to the season!! The SEAHAWKS shut out the RAMS...28-0

Saturday Drive....

We woke up this morning wondering how we were going to enjoy this beautiful day....so we packed a cooler with lunch and beverages and headed for the ferry landing. We boarded the Kittitas ferry and headed for Whidbey Island. We headed to the top deck of the boat to enjoy the view. Mukilteo beach was having some sort of a festival and there were some really large beautiful kites flying in the sky.
kites flying in the sky from the boat

CHEESER!!

Out on the deck...Natale is not too sure about it!!

Taken from the beach of the bridge

There were LOTS of fisherman on the beach. We enjoyed our picnic on the beach, watched boats cruise through the channel, threw rocks in the water and just loved taking in the beautiful surroundings.

BIG WAVE...

Throwing rocks and collecting crystals

Me and my honey on the beach!!

All of US!!

We had a great FAMILY DAY, spending time with each other, laughing and chatting about life and our new house!! Looking forward to our next adventure!!!!

Second floor

Here is our weekly update....We try to drive by the house about every other day. We have a second floor and as of tonight the rafters were up.
Natale being silly and cute. Avery and Natale are both really into rocks and collecting them. (calling them crystals)

Natale staying dry in our new garage. No roof means lots of water.

peek-a-boo!

Joe took this from the second floor.

Mama and Papa taking a photos from the top of the staircase...how cool!!

taken tonight 9-8-09 from different angles

More to come....roof goes on Friday and windows come on Monday.....so exciting!!!