We have tile!

I have to admit that the last few trips to the house have been pretty uneventful for me. Don't get me wrong though I love going to the house and knowing that it is going to be ours. This past weekend, there was cause for excitement! They were installing the tile!!! This means we are getting closer and closer to having a complete house! The only downside was that it was a very short and sweet trip because we didn't want to be in their way. So here are a few pictures to show off what had been done!

 The tile looks much better than I tough it would! I was so afraid it would be too light, but it is perfect! Notice we also have a fancy shmancy shower stall now?

 Here is the laundry room! They had just laid the tile and were waiting for it to set before they put in the grout. I cant wait to see it finished next weekend!

The second bathroom. I had to laugh while taking this picture because I was trying to stay out of the mirror and then it hit me... we have mirrors! Oh, just noticed we have a shower curtain rod too!

When we returned the key to the sales office Matt told them that they were installing the tile already and Cris (Billie's sales partner) said they may have it finished before November then! As much as I cant wait to move in, I really don't want it to be sooner than November 1st. We need until then to make sure we have all the money they will need for closing, since I've budgeted putting away so much each month.

Matt and I are heading out to AZ this weekend so we are going to have to wait until Sunday to see the house. It's always worth the wait, I think.



Ahhh!!! :o)

Ok, this past week felt like the longest week ever! I almost didn't know what to do with myself on Wednesday because we didn't go see the house. However, I did survive and of course it was worth waiting to see the house today.

Thing are progressing nicely, our sales agent said we are still on target for a November 15th closing date. I still think it may happen a week or so sooner but she's the expert, not me. There has been a lot of sales happening at Summerly! They are ready to release another phase of homes and the selling price for the Brianna is now $243,950! That is $16,000 more than what we bought ours for... hello equity! Billie even made mention that the signs are soon going to say "homes from the mid 200s" instead of "homes from the low 200s." Its the little things....

Matt and I also found out today that we have been officially approved for the financing!! Our loan officer has always been confident that we would get approved but you just never know and well now we know it is all ours!!

Now on to the pictures!

Only minor changes on the outside this visit.

The railing has been added to the porch and the pvc pipe for the sprinklers have been installed.

 

Our pony wall is almost finished and I have to say I'm pretty happy that we have it.

 

We now have a fence! The only thing missing is the gate but they're working on it.

 

That is all for this week. We will head back down to the house on Saturday, eight long days from now..boo! Have a great week everyone!

 

Even more progress!

We were finally able to see the interior of the house this past Saturday. I do have to say it was completely worth the wait! However, you will not see any full pictures of the exterior of the house. My mom, grandma, Matt and Van met us at the house so there were cars everywhere! I'll make sure to get the pictures when we go down on Friday.

They fixed the pre-wire for the exterior lights and capped them. We also have a house number! This goes along nicely with the new street signs recently put up.

Nothing much has changed int he backyard (still waiting for the fence) except for this nice little air conditioner!

 

Just as we thought, they installed the granite! Our kitchen is coming along nicely and we love how nice the granite looks with the cabinets. It makes me happy that I didn't change the cabinet color.

Here is the kitchen sink, I love that the hose spray thingy is included since they are pretty handy. I was also surprised to see the the granite in the window seal. You can also see the granite a little bit better. I need to remember next week to take an up close picture of the granite.

We also have the sinks, toilets, and towel racks installed in all the restrooms. I would have thought they would have installed the tile prior to installing the sink and toilet but what do I know!

I just realised that I have quite a few pictures of the master bath and shower, whoops! I took this one to show they installed the plumping fixtures, I am very pleased with the quality.

Here is the granite for the master bath, they installed the lights and one of the medicine cabinets.

I've been assured that the other will be installed, which I don't doubt but you think they would have fixed it already.

Here is the 2nd bath upstairs. All it is waiting for is the flooring!

 

That's all the pictures that I have from this weekend. I cannot wait until we get to see the progress the next time we go. I spoke the one of the other sales agents (ours was on lunch) and asked if they were ahead of schedule on the building because I just can't imagine the rest of the stuff taking until November. She said that she knows that some houses have been a few weeks ahead of schedule but she would check with the super when he got back from vacation on Monday. As much as we would love to move into our house sooner than later we will most likely wait it out until November. That extra month of money saving will help us out a ton!

 

On a non house related note... we finally ordered our wedding pictures! Keep an eye our for them on facebook once we get them!

2 visits in 1!

We went to the house last Saturday but I didn't feel that I had enough new stuff to update so I figured I would hold off until we went this week. But lets start with what we saw last weekend shall we?

 

We have a drive way!!

 

We also have a slab on concrete for our imaginary door!!

Yeah, we have no idea why did that but we are just going to go with it...

 

I thought I'd also throw in a picture of the fake window.

If nothing else, I like that it makes the windows on this side of the house look equal.

 

It looks like they had cleaned all the windows not too long before we arrived.

It felt pretty weird to see them clean and without plastic!

There wasn't too much to show interior wise this time around. They pulled up the tile on the counter in the master bath. They also took the blue plastic off the shower and tub!

 

We headed to the house on Wednesday like we normally do and this is what we were greeted with...

A door, with a lock!!

I knew this time was coming but man it sucked to not be able to go inside and see what has been going on! But on the other hand it makes me look forward to Saturday that much more!

 

They installed the garage door and have installed the brick part of the fence.

 

Since we couldn't see inside our house, we peaked into the windows of the 2 single stories next door. They had granite, sinks, and towel racks installed. So I'm sure ours will be installed soon! I'm hoping that's what we get to see when we arrive on Saturday. Fingers crossed!

 

A co-worker of my mom's is also buying a house in Lake Elsinore. His house is also going to be ready in November. It's pretty nice to have someone who is going through the same things as you and who understands just how freaking exciting it is to see the progress, no matter how small.

 

That's all I have for now, hopefully there will be some exciting pictures come Saturday!