Is it June yet???

Well, here's the latest- it was kind of a slow week as far as progress on the house. But, the outside of the house is pretty much done (minus the lights and doors)! The siding is done, and we now have shakes (the gray, shingle-like things on the front of the house- we had no clue what those were when we started this whole process). The color was a little darker gray than Nicole had expected, but oh-well- it still looks awesome!



They also sprayed our ceilings, though it's kind of hard to tell in this pic.


And this is pretty much where we're at. Here's looking into the kitchen/eating area from the living room. The big news we got this week is that the house should officially be done on June 5th! We'll have our final walk-through that day, then it takes about 3 days for them to do touch-ups and whatnot, and then we close!! So, we should officially get to move in around June 8th or 9th if all goes well- about 3 weeks earlier than the previous date we had.


Also, this past weekend we ran the North St. Paul Detour Days 5K with Nicole's aunt Bobbi and cousin Amy- what a beautiful day!

Holy Sheet Rock!

Lots of good progress this week! As you can see, we now have brick! We were pretty excited to have our address block. Very cool.



Otherwise, not much different on the front of the house...but there is siding on the sides and back of the house right now. Shouldn't be long before the outside is completely done!



And, for the big news...the whole house is SHEET ROCKED!! Woohoo! We couldn't believe they got it all done already. Here is the eating area.



And above is our stairway/entryway. Love seeing that sheet rock.



They also poured the basement earlier in the week. Here is Greg with his mom and dad checking it out.




We just had to throw this pic in...we had a little visitor on our balcony this week. I thought the cats were going to go nuts when they saw this guy, but Tiger just walked up to the window and meowed like he wanted to go out and play. Tiger and this cat even touched noses through the glass- it was pretty cute. We have no idea how this cat scaled the balcony- we're on the 4th floor!

Truckin' along...

We now have shingles! As you can see, the outside of the house hasn't changed too much from last week, but they just finished up the shingles yesterday. Siding should hopefully be next week.



And, we have plumbing!


Gas lines and electric, as well.


These are going to be cool- this is the "can" of one of the can lights we're going to have in the kitchen.


They also put in the duct work this week. So, as you can see, they got a lot done on the inside of the house!

For other "goings-on" this week, we got to see lots of our families! There was Easter at Nicole's Aunt Kay's new house, and also at Greg's mom and dad's. This past Saturday we went out to breakfast with our cousins Nickie, Becky, and Aiden, as well as Elizabeth (in from Washington D.C.) and Aunt Annell (in from Colorado)! Today is the 10-year anniversary of Greg's grandpa's death, so we got to spend the day with Greg's mom's side of the family. It was awesome to spend some time with our families, since we definitely don't get to see them as often as we'd like! More updates soon...

Hi, I'm a fully framed house. What's your name?

More house photos. How do you like the windows?



The top right bedroom is our cousin Andrew's. Big ups at ya A.



Look at the hot babe in the jacuzzi.



I've heard this stud comes with the property. We're not talking 2 x 4's here folks.