Here are the latest pictures that I've taken of the house. I've really gotten slack with the picture taking. It's not that I don't want anymore pictures - it's just that I've been SO busy. Everyone talks about how time consuming and stressful building a house is. I didn't really understand why people said that but now I do. It's not so much that it's a lot to do on my part...it's just to add all the decisions, the trips to the store, the calls to places, the budgeting and bill paying, the admiring the work along the way...all that in addition to your normal 40+ hour work week, raising 2 kids chao and you've got STRESS! Brent's stress is of a different nature because he's actually coordinating the building of the house and just finished putting in many hours of labor for the last 3 weeks doing all the electrical work. The good news is that the following inspections have all passed: exterior framing, plumbing, electrical, heating and air, fireplace. They didn't pass the interior framing inspection yesterday but we think that's easily resolvable...they just didn't understand something. So, now on to the insulation and then that inspection and then the sheetrock will go up. Now, we're really starting to get to the tedious jobs - painting, interior trim, etc. The brick masons aren't finished yet but have taken a pause to go to do another job somewhere else. When they return they will finish the front and back porches and the fireplace and chimney. When we get finished, we may not have a lot of furniture to start off but we are going to have a beautiful house with some wonderful places to sit and relax. Hopefully, we'll have time to enjoy those spaces over the years!

We love the details that the brick mason has added to the exterior of the house!! Take a look at the arch over the garage door and at the brick around the window above the garage door.

I love it!!