BYU Football

Did you see that?!! It's BYU football time! This year we got tickets with Michelle's parents (Ralph and Annette) and sister (Kimberly and Brandon) along with some friends Josh and Rosie. Josh is pictured here getting excited over a great play. Hopefully BYU can get some momentum going this season. 

Rah rah, rah rah rah... gooooo cougars!! 

Before the start of each game, the players get together and do the Hakkah(sp). Ralph tells us it is an ancient ritual that the old warriors would do after they burned their canoes and are preparing for battle. It's definitely a crowd pleaser, we love it.  

Here we are with Josh and Rosie. Go cougars! 

Both home games so far have been a blowout, so we've had plenty of reasons to rise and shout! All we need is some more luck away from home. 

Carpet Walkthrough -- September 22, 2006

Finally! It is time for our carpet walkthrough. This means that the house is just about done. Everything is in and almost finished. This meeting was the blue-tape meeting. We went through and inspected the house to see if there were things that weren't quite right or nicks and stuff from construction. Michelle had a good time, so by the end there were little blue spots all over the house. After we have gone through, then the construction manager will go through again, and then they have to take their boss through before we close to make sure it passes his scrutiny. We were super excited to walk in our house, because the move is coming soon! 

Here is the back of our house. We won't do the landscaping until spring, but they will at least clean up and give it a final grade. 

"I can't wait to move in!" Just a couple more weeks.  

Here is a closeup of the kitchen. The counter tops are a coffee brown silestone. Silestone is similar to Granite but supposedly not porous like Granite so it isn't supposed to stain.  

Everything is in and clean in the master bathroom.  

The master bedroom. 

This shows the color of the carpet and our fireplace 

One of the construction managers came with us on the walk through. Tony is checking out our ceiling fan in the living room 

The main bath is ready to go! 

Here is the front entry 

Our house as of September 3rd, 2006

The front of the house as of September 3rd. We aren't sure why the stucco is taking so long, but there was a lot of other fun things going on! 

Here is the kitchen! The cabinets are all in. We are just waiting for all the handles and the countertops! 

The closets are just waiting for the hang bars. 

The cultured marble is in around the vanity and shower and tub. 

Here is the fireplace, waiting for a mantle 

The bannister is all in.  

The front entry is looking pretty close to done. The hardwood doesn't have it's final coat yet. 

It looks like next week we will be getting all our hardware in. These are the boxes labelled for all the light fixtures and handles and things like that.