Rain...

Well, it RAINED today for those of you NOT in East Texas and it rained a LOT!!! I was out of town for most of the day, but made it out to the house late. It is a mushy mess right now. I don't have any new pictures to post because the only thing going on inside of the house it tile. I will try to get some tomorrow. Tim, the tile guy's, working on the master shower and bath right now. I leave in less than 18hrs and adding that up to type the right hours just gave me a heart attache......seriously I need oxygen...Corey's at work and I can't breath......I'm okay. I just need to have faith that all will work out and it's just moving a house nothing serious or dangerous. It's all about perspective.

The rock's back... :)

I am sooooo excited. Brooke, Andrew and I stopped at the house today after hitting the shooting range. IT IS AMAZING!!! The mason workers were back yesterday and today and the inside fireplace and the kitchen cook top area is as well should be finished already. I can't believe it will all the house will be finished while I'm out of town. Corey can handle everything that's happening. The electricians should be done tomorrow with all the final installs. John told me today he's contacting the plumber to complete is final item installs, the septic and gas tank. I can't tell y'all how giddy I am. It's like Christmas EVERY day :)

We have officially booked the movers. We are moving on July 9th!!! YES, YES, YES I know I don't get back until July 8th (except for a 32hr U.S. layover! I have already started packing, as of today. Thank goodness for all the prep work I did several months ago. I spent several days "purging" during late April. It was easy...I know I was shocked as well. The laundry room, my bathroom, the living room and 1/3 of the kitchen are PACKED!!! I only spent the latter part of the afternoon packing (about 3hrs.) I couldn't finish the kitchen because I don't have anything to use on the breakable stuff. I feel like I should be done with all the packing by Tuesday 12pm. We are packing everything that's inside...ie....if you show up right now and open a cabinet door in the laundry room or my bathroom or the entertainment center you will find NOTHING!!! We have to leave all the other items because we haven't sold the house yet and we want it to look really good and staged when it is shown. Corey convinced me to list the house with realtor tomorrow. I guess it's that time.

Here's a few pics from today.

Late May Update...Let us know what you think :)

Here are several new pictures of the house. Update is...we are really close to having the painting done as you will see in several pictures. The landscaping is being worked on. They are building retaining walls in the front. The pool pump was put in this week. The electrician was supposed to be there on Thursday to start work on putting the lights in and other electrical finishes. The tile guy has been working for two days and has the step into the tub built and the shower floor and bench finished. The tile should be in on Monday. Things are really coming together. We can't wait to see it all finished.The Above Picture is the front of the house at this time. You can see a little of the retaining walls being built on the front left.

The above picture is a close-up of the retaining walls. They are covered in the same flagstone the column bases and fireplace hearths are capped in.

The above picture shows one of the back porches with the cedar columns set.
The above pictures are of the Great Room. One is it being painted and the other is the finished product.

Here are three pics of the kitchen with the Granite set in.

The below picture is taken from the breakfast/bar area off the kitchen looking towards the front door. The columns are cedar.

This picture is of the Powder Bath. The blue didn't photograph well it's not a bright/baby blue...it's more a aqua/Mediterranean/deep blue.

These last two are of the master bathroom with the granite set in.

A Few More House Pics in the House While Painting...

Living room with Corey in the picture facing the camera....Corey walking is the dining room and the front door...the ladder going down the hall to the two jack-n-jill bedrooms from the dining room...The master bath looking into the closet then the first is the living room looking into the breakfast area off the kitchen....sorry they are backwards in the descriptions but that's how I typed them as I looked at the pics from bottom to top... :)

And the painting begins...

Here we have the Kitchen, Kitchen, Side of the Bar, Laundry room and the Bar again. There Kitchen is stained in a Black and the rest is Stained in a brown. What do you think?

The Beam....

Here are the before and after pics....let's hope I can get them in the right order from Brandon the builder at 22feet building the beam to completion. The other columns in the house will be solid....this one is built with 2x12's...I'm going to try for some video tomorrow...we'll see... ;)

Swimming pool update...

It's been awhile but I have been really busy. It seems I can't catch up. A lot has been going on with the house recently. The painters arrived this week and have stained a LOT of the cabinets.

They are saying three weeks until painting is finished. John and Brandon have just about finished the cabinets. I have a lot of new pics but they are on Brooke's camera and I don't have it with me. Here's a picture of the swimming pool with the flagstone and tile. We are waiting on the electrition on the pool and then we will poor the concrete. I will try to get some pictures up as soon as I can get my hands on Brooke's camera.