Burning Updates

Some of you may be wondering what is going on with our house. Some of you may be studying for the bar, preparing to get married, preparing for a reception, moving into a home, or trying to figure out how Legos work, in which case the following update may not be for you -- at least right now.

The house is coming along quite well. It's be fun to watch the house go from framing all the way to completion. The picture above is the house about a week after we went and just saw the concrete pad it was built on. The picture below is our house two weeks ago.

We have been very excited about the progress of construction and it looks as if now everything is almost done. Below we have a bunch of photos from our last outing over there.

But now here's the hangup. As much as we would like to close on our house, and as much as our builder would like to close on the house and get paid, Karma seems to think otherwise. Originally, we were supposed to close on July 11th or thereabouts. But the county had yet to approve our drainage system for the subdivision and so everyone was put on hold.

Then the fires started. On July 5th, 3 houses just barely in the framing process were burned down. Then on July 10th, 10 more houses fell victim to arson. Fortunately, our house was not affected. It stands in the portion of the community that is currently done. All the fires occured in homes that were still being framed. Still it is a great cause for concern, especially considering that the next area of the subdivision to go into framing is the area that abuts our finished portion.

But it appears as though there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon. Our builder just called and said that we will be able to close on our house sometime before July 31. We haven't had a fire there for 8 days now. And best of all, Teri's already made most of the curtains.

So stay tuned for the latest news and enjoy the pics below.

Here Teri, her brother David, and her sister Julie inspect the kitchen, while Merilee inspects the carpet behind them. The fridge will go right behind Teri in the open space beneath the cabinet.

Ellie was checking out our master bedroom/bathroom. The bathroom doesn't have a door, but it does have a nice archway. Ellie really liked the cardboard strips they laid out to walk around in the house.

Merilee and McKay love the new stairs. McKay climbed up the stairs 3 or 4 times in the 20 minutes we had over at the house just looking around. We were holding him the rest of the time.

The real danger here is that McKay is great at going up, but still hasn't figured out how to get down. Like a poor boxer, McKay likes to lead with his chin.