House Guests

What a difference a few days means for the building process. The pictures from the day of our ground breaking, while it was cold, were at least taken when the ground was clear. You'll see towards the bottom of this post, that the foundation of our home is now pretty well covered with snow. Obviously this is slowing down the process, which is ok base on our current time line.

As I'd mentioned earlier, we were invited to a party down the street from our home-to-be with neighbors Dianna and Mark Peterson. Because it was a long week, and because Sara flew in Friday evening, we didn't end up making it to the party. Would have been fun to have met a bunch of the new neighbors, but last week was pretty chaotic, and both of us were totally exhausted. Thank you for the invite though, we look forward to the next opportunity to meet people.

Saturday and Sunday, we technically had our first house guests since TJB broke ground. Our friends Jeff and Melissa hung out with us Saturday evening and we were able to show them the snow covered foundation in the dark before a nice night of fondue, wine and Wii.

Just today, my mom was down and we were able to see the lot during the day with her. We also toured the model home next door which has now been sold (we met the new owners a month or so ago, and they are moving in at the end of January.) And we spent an hour or so driving around with my mom looking at front doors, shakes and shingles (those are some of our first choices in the upcoming weeks). It was fun to be able to show my mom where we'll be living, and for us all to drive around and look at all of the options ahead.

So for the first time since we've had the foundation hole dug, I guess we've had house guests at our new house. That's kind of fun.

It will be interesting to see over the next week if we are able to get anything further completed. The hope was for them to have actually poured the cement before we had this kind of weather. Best laid plans I guess. The forecast ahead doesn't look any warmer, so I supposed it is possible that we're going to have to wait until after Christmas for that. Thankfully, we're in no rush, but it would sure be nice to get this thing framed before 2010. But we can't control the weather.

We were reminded again while driving around just how awesome this neighborhood is going to be. It was about 2:30pm in the afternoon, and we saw about 5 deer. Snapped a good picture of one of them just hanging out. The Realtor hosting an open-house in the model next door said they see wild turkey too.

You can see from the pictures that even with the trees as barren as they get, we still have pretty significant woods coverage in our back yard. Will be awesome sitting on the deck in the summer with deer and turkey wandering around.