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Along our way to scouts last Tuesday night we stopped off to visit our dirt.  I can officially no longer call it my dirt.  I can call it my slab!!  Yes!  We have concrete now! 

They must have poured Monday since the forms were off and by the side of the road Tuesday evening. 

I returned to our slab a few times over the week, hoping to see lumber being used... the two other houses that were poured the same day as mine were being worked on but mine wasn't.  I was pretty bummed.  I was over there Friday afternoon and nothing was being done at all.  It was kind of a bummer but it is what it is.
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Today on our way back from having lunch out, we stopped by.  When we came around the bend I was so excited - we had walls!! Okay, not all of our walls.  It is going to take a few days to get our house completely framed since it's a two story but I was tickled.  Sadly due to a horrific phone to computer snaffoo I have no pictures to share right now.  We'll be going back over there tomorrow after lunch so I should have a much more impressive picture...
Here's one I took on Thursday... with our lumber hanging out, just waiting to have something done with it...
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Update!  I went back Saturday night and took a few pictures... To save you guys from boredom, I'm only posting one.  Nothing new was done on Sunday.  Those guys deserve a rest!  Hubby said that we'll go back after dinner tonight (Monday night) to see how things are going.  I'll update more later!
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I am still very excited about the house.  The builder's representative said that it would be 75 days after the first nail hits the concrete slab... but then he was informed for "those big houses" it would be 85 days.  I'm good.  It's give or take a week.  75, 85 days. It's all good.  It's still about 3 months and that puts us at a Christmas move.  It's a fabulous Xmas present!
So last week the house was rough plumbed and just sitting there doing nothing.... I'm sure they were just waiting to have it inspected before getting it ready.  It's not a whole lot to look at - just pipes and that new flexible tubing that is replacing copper everywhere. 

Today we went out to lunch and on the way back we figured we'd go take a look.  I almost said, why bother.  I was there on Friday.  Nothing new had happened.  I wasn't really expecting anything at all.  As we pulled around the bend I got all excited - the big pile of gravel was gone!!  Something new was done!
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The area was back filled and covered with that black plastic looking stuff. It's ready to go!  I walked around and the rebar is in place as well... Will it be tomorrow that it gets filled with concrete?  Maybe!  Hubby thinks that they will wait until they have a few houses ready and pour them all at once but I doubt that will happen.  It will take more than a truckload I'm sure to fill this bad boy.  I'll update as soon as we see cement there... I'll check back maybe tomorrow afternoon or Tuesday morning to see what there is to see... probably Tuesday because I need to go out to get some moving boxes... it's time to start packing!!!
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So I wanted some peace and quiet.  Our house is just not big enough for me to hide from the video games, computer games, wii, PS3 and that wretched Rock Band game.  taptaptaptaptappittaptap... It's enough to give anyone a headache... We were going to have a 2 car garage built with a great big storage area over it so we could actually have a nice usable attic space then turn the existing 1 1/2 car garage in to a rec room and move those noisy things out there... but noooOOoooo those septic drain fields are in the way.

Plan B was to have a room built on... just a bit of an addition... $65,000 for a room for possible peace and quiet was pretty painful.  I wanted to go for it but it's hard to shell out the equivalent of 2-4 new cars depending on what kind of car you're getting...

So I was sad.. Really sad.  The thought of living in this noisy house with nowhere for me to go to work or hide during the noisy gaming weekends just made me want to cry.... Then one day I was like.  Hey!  If you can't alter the house you have why  not move to one that has everything you want???  So began my search.  Over the course of just a few days I found a few potential houses in the area that could possibly work - then I saw a housing development go up - and they had a floor plan I really really liked - but we'd have to wait to have it built... it's all good.  I think it's so worth the wait!!

So here is our lot.....  This picture was taken in early August...
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Then the bulldozers came and I started to get excited.  Really excited.... This was taken just last Friday.

Saturday we took hubby's parents over to visit our dirt.  Right now I can't call it much more than dirt.  Well, they had a bobcat out there pushing around more dirt. 
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Monday I went out to visit my dirt again and to my surprise there was wooden forms all ready to go for the slab and a giant pile of gravel.  I took some pictures - but my phone apparently was hungry and ate them.  I went back today and there were plumbers there!!  Yup. It's all in motion now!  I'll go back every few days and update the progress.  It's so exciting!!  Okay, it is for me.  This is the first house that I have had build for me.  I've lived in a few new homes but none of them were ones that I picked out.  I tweaked the floor plans.  I picked out the flooring and the cabinets.  I picked the lot.  I picked which direction the garage would face.  Everything about it I picked out.  It will be so nice to have a house that I wanted and had a say in from the beginning... oh and the best part??  My craft room will be HUGE!!!!  Oh yes indeedy.  It is going to be wonderful.  I can fit probably 3 of my current craft rooms in to the new one... I'll post pics of course once I'm actually in that glorious creative space... but for now...  I
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