Can I Throw Candy?

Whew! Lots going on as it pertains to house building!

As you all know the house was torn down a little over a week ago. Very interesting seeing pieces of my house driven by in a semi truck. The mess is pretty well cleaned up and now it just looks like a big muddy mess. Looks ready for a gorge house to be built on it!

It feels like Tommy talks to our builder Brian daily about one thing or another - and we haven't even started yet! One of the big things that came out of these discussions is that our new home is going to be in the Parade of Homes in June - woo hoo!

Very exciting for a multitude of reasons. One, Tommy and I are obsessed with the Parade and go every single year. Two, this means that we are on a very strict deadline since the Parade begins on June 11th. That of course makes me extremely happy. Three, and probably the most awesome part is that this means major discounts on a lot of things that go into the house as businesses use this as a major advertising tool. All very exciting!

This week has been a whirlwind of things. Now that we are 100% doing the Parade we have to get into gear on EVERYTHING and fast. This means everything from picking out tiles and knobs for cabinets to carpet to lighting and everything in between. Every night we are working on this stuff - more so Tommy right now than me. I will give credit where credit is due :) When I think about dimensions, scales, etc. my head spins. My husband however is an engineer so that is coming in handy. I am more of an advisor at this point. Yes, advisor. I like that title. HA I will say though he is doing the technical parts of this we have been making every bit of this a joint effort so that we are on the same page about everything. It's extremely time consuming and stressful at times but parts of it are definitely fun.

Yesterday we spent the majority of the day doing house related things. When your builder prices your home, he obviously talks to a myriad of different companies and people to get pricing on thinsg such as doors, windows, appliances, etc. Now begins the journey of US going to these places and getting into much more detail with them and seeing if those people are indeed who we will end up using. We had an appointment at 9am to look at windows and doors at Kight. Windows and doors.....eh, not really my thing to be honest. HA I prefer to just show them the house and say, "Okay, well do it like this picture and make sure they keep me warm in the winter and cool in the summer." We spent about an hour there going over details. Then onto some fun stuff...

In the afternoon we went to Bassemier's to price hot tubs. Now we're talking. We found one that we like but we are waiting to see who has the best price on this. We today went to Spa City and found one that we liked as well. The people working at Spa City had their English Bulldog with them that looked just like Rocko! I think it's a sign. :) To be continued...

Also yesterday afternoon we had an appointment at 1:00 at Ferguson's to look at quite a few things - tubs, toilets, sinks, kitchen appliances, lighting, etc. I was in heaven when I walked into that store. So many pretty shiny things surrounding me! We spent two hours with the lovely Tammy until we had to leave because they were closing. And we still aren't finished! We basically went through room by room with our house plan and picked out things that we wanted for each room. SO much fun! Again, kind of one of those wait and see things once we find out the cost. This is who our builder used to price but that can always change. Tomorrow we got back to look at lighting. I picked out some fab things though! I think laying in different tubs to see which one I want for my bathroom was one of the highlights - HA! I am super excited to go back tomorrow to look at lighting - ready to pick out the chandelier for my closet!!!

The goal is for our builder to come dig the basement this Tuesday but it's supposed to rain so we will see. The weather really needs to cooperate with us on this!!!

Oh, and I bought a pink hard hat today. One must always be prepared when building a house. :)