Wow...what a busy day between spending all morning on the phone with our builder and trying to do daily work while helping customers. Geez! Pretty sure a whole day worth of work was complete by noon.

The framers are about to wrap up their end of things on the house. The carpenter came in to do measurements, appliance placements are almost finalized, guest bath tub was dropped off, doors & windows will be installed tomorrow (Friday, Sept 2nd), PVC pipe will be installed for the HDMI cable (a must in this house)near the fireplace, arch measurements for doorways finalized and appointments have been set to meet with other vendors. Are you exhausted, because I sure am???? LOL

They have begun working on the roof. It's amazing how quickly this process progresses each day. Our house is finally coming together!

This week has been the most visible progress yet on our house! This weekend they started framing- woo hoo!

They started putting our plumbing into place. Things are actually moving along now.

Blocks are up....

Our blocks have been delivered.....
I never thought I would be excited to have building supplies. They started clearing the lot to the left of us so we will be able to tell how our side yard will look soon.

Bye Bye Mini

On Thursday evening when I was driving home, a eighteen wheeler tire was laying in the middle of the road. The car infront of me hit the tire and slung it at the front of my car. The tire was sucked up underneath my car which caused my mini to come off the road about 6-8" (according to Aaron who was luckily behind me). Aaron and Dom (Cassie's husband) were able to buff out the tire marks on the front of my car. However, there was a part on the back of the engine near the turbo that was leaking fluid.

Aaron called the mini dealership (closest one to us in Memphis) on Friday. They towed the mini to Memphis (free of charge since it is under warranty). Luckily, the mechanics decided the part leaking fluid was a "faulty piece" and replaced it for free. THANK GOODNESS FOR WARRANTIES!!!!

Pouring the Footings & Marking the House Lines

We had some pretty good progress on the house on Friday. They dug the footings and outlined the house/garage.

We went out to the lot this afternoon to view the progress. The daily change is extremely slow right now. Apparently, one of the buyers who were purchasing a lot next to ours backed out. The builder has nowhere to put the dirt without having to hall it offsite which is a pretty penny. They brought in some rock today, but there is so much left to excavate.