Matt touches up the potty room inside our bathroom- notice the doors and jams are not up yet. That was to make it easier for us to paint!
Our bedroom ceiling. The blue paint tape is still in place but we will remove it today. This ceiling is very pretty but such a pain to paint!
Another picture of the master bedroom. The room looks small but its not!
The living room!
Look at all the mess to clean up! But isn't it just beautiful!
Another view of the front from the garage side!
Our front door still needs stain and of coarse some clean up but isn't it great!
Our brick mason cut the keystone over the window on site. This was something extra he did just being nice. I love it.
Patricia playing in what will become our shower
A full view of our front door -couldn't figure out how to turn it on here
This is a neat photo! It is Me, Matt and Patricia standing on the back porch looking thru the living room at the front door
Okay its been a while since my last post. Amy (my sister) has been on me about it. The reason I haven't posted any comments is because we have been working so hard. We finished painting the living room tonight and only have our bedroom and bathroom left to paint. We have spread on a total of 60 gallons of paint so far. The above photos were taken a couple of days ago. Since that time our brick and rock work have been completed, we have pulled up the tar paper and clean the floor, clean up alot of bricks outside and replaced the tar paper on the floor with plastic. We have paint almost all the inside and to say the least we are tired but very proud of ourselves. Moving day gets closer everyday!
Hopefully this week I will become like the third little piggy and have a house made of brick instead of sticks (2x4's). Cute hugh!! This is our brick and rock selection. The house itself will be brick but we will have rock accents on the corners and around the windows. The post by the front door will also be rock. It's going to look great.
This is the Texas Star laid into our foyer. It is just beautiful. Thanks to our friend Armando who owns King Concrete. He took such care to make sure our floor looked great. In the picture the white looking stuff is dust and it looks like there is a line in the floor but there isn't. As you can see in the top of the photo we pulled back the tar paper to get this picture. Our whole floor is completely cover by this paper and will remain that way until the very end when it will be mopped then waxed with a buffer.
Patricia was excited about the new feature in the front yard- hope she doesn't expect for it to stay. I took this picture of her playing atop the 6 foot high sand pile. This sand will be used for the motar for the bricks- but for now today it was the best sand box ever!
Well its been a couple of days since my last post. Lots of stuff has been happening. As you can see we have windows now. The framer finished and all the outside soufets are finished. Matt and I spent everyday daylight hour this weekend at the house painting the soufets and overhangs. We finished our second coat about 5 pm. To say the least we are very tired but have an amazing feeling of pride for a job well done. We decided early on to do our own painting. From our research before starting to build we learned that most painters do not use top quality paint but you pay for the top stuff. Some even water down the paint to stretch it out- that way they profit more money. We didn't want that. After some research we decided to use Olmypic Paint that is sold at Lowes. We got the top quality 25 year warranty. It was very expensive but we were told over and over that it was worth the money. The electric is now roughed in. I never quessed how many wires are in a house. Man there is wires in every wall and all over the attic. We are expecting the plumbers to finish more of thier work my Wednesday. Then Armando Paniqua is staining our concrete floors. His business is called King Concrete and he has been by several times to check on the floors and is very easy to work with. 
This is an awesome picture I thought with the way the sun is shinning down. It reminds me that gods light is always shinning down on our little home.
This is the back of the house, but in reality this is the side with the view. Therefore this is where all the windows are and our living space. The two olcoves on this side of the house are nearly all glass. You can't tell by the pictures but each window is 3 feet by 6 feet ( I think). There are four on each olcove and a mostly all glass door. The olcove on the right is the breakfast area and the one on your left is the sitting area in our bedroom. I plan on spending some relaxing time gazing out those windows as I age.
I took this photo about noon today. You will notice that the roof has been decked. Actually the men were on hand to put the felt on the roof but they were eating lunch. It is beginning to look more and more like a house. Amy hope you can tell more about it NOW. This is a picture from the front standing out by the road. Things have been busy for us this week so we have not spent alot of time at the house site and because of that things have gotten a little messy. We are planning on spending the evening on Sunday picking up trash and unusable lumber.
Since Christmas progress has slowed alot. The framers have just worked half days on a couple of days. So things have really slowed. We are anxious for normal work days to begin again.
