House Watch: Getting Caught Up

So here's the latest on our house: we're waiting. For the past couple of weeks we've been helping out in other people's houses getting ready to paint or getting the kitchen ready for vinyl flooring or just cleaning up. Meanwhile our house is getting worked on by subcontactors. We finally finished framing and stuff is happening but we're not doing a lot. This next saturday (Aug 23) we're supposed to finally start paint prep in our house. Things are going really great and it looks like we'll definately be in our house sometime in October. What will we do with all our free time? But here are some pictures to give you an idea of how things are coming.

This is a picture of the sweet set of stairs that I built with the help of my Dad. Mom and Dad came out for a few days so we could get our hours early in the week and take that trip to Tahoe.

Here's Julie taking a shower in what will soon be our Master bath. We like it a lot because in our tiny apartment now the bathroom is barely big enough for the tub and toilet let alone a person. Our new bathroom will be a lot roomier.

Here we can see the subs are getting the walls insulated so we won't freeze to death.

And here we see the sheet rock put up. They really do a good job of giving the walls texture and rounding off corners and things. It's going to look nice when we're finally done.

And this a picture of the scaffolding that they put up all around the house so they can put up the stucco. It's really coming along and hopefully at the end of this week we'll have pictures of the finished exterior. We only hope it looks good. It's been so long since we chose the colors that we can only hope they look good.

And just to make you jealous this is a picture of one of the awesome sunsets that we get right out our kitchen window.