"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. 

You guessed it, an update on the house! August 19th, 2006

I realized that we have put up a ton of pictures of our home building project, and it may be annoying to the rest of you who take a look and it's the same old thing week in and week out. I guess this is our little baby since we don't get any of our own, I imagine once we finally have a kid, we'll put tons of pictures of him/her up and you'll be sick of those too. :-) But to those of you who are excited as we are, the brick is all done! The parts you see in the front that are still wood will be stucco and of course there will be the soffit around the edge of the roof.

Another cool thing is that the house is far enough along that they were able to give us a solid date on closing and other meetings that take place around then. The plan is to close on October 9th! That is nearly 3 weeks ahead of schedule, so we were stoked to hear the news.
 

The hardwood floor is going in! They will put it all in and then put in the kitchen cabinets and paint and all that. Then around the time everything is finishing up, they come in and sand it and put a dark finish on it. Michelle was expressing her excitement! 

This is the tile in the master bath. It is a smaller and darker tile than that in the laundry and main bath--see the next picture. It will have a deeper rich feel to it. At least we think. :-) 

And here is the tile in the main bathroom. It looks like they are getting ready to do the tile in the laundry room as well. 

Here is the wall in the living room after the mudding has been finished. We are getting the textured walls (fresco?) so they don't have to sand down the walls to be smooth. 

This is a shot of the ceilings after the texturing has been done. Next step on these guys is the painting. I'm not sure when that will start. 

Josh and Rosie's Wedding August 18, 2006

It finally happened! We've known both Josh and Rosie for a long time, and they've dated for over two years, they started coming to gamenight a bit after they got together. They've been known as the Skinmon's (Josh Skinner and Rosie Simmons) for quite a while to us so we were happy for them when they became the Skinners instead. Congratulations you two! Here are a few pictures we took at the wedding celebration.  

Here we are! We were delighted to be a part of this with Josh. He's been and is a great friend. On the left is Dan Hosford, then myself, and then Bryson, an old roommate of Josh's and also worked with us for a time at Harris Interactive. 

Here is a picture of the Groomsmen and Bridesmaids. I knew most of the guys and had no clue who the girls are.