Sweet, beautiful grass....

Ahhhh...home sweet home.  Now if I could only get the inside of the house to look as nice as the outside!

New house update!!!!

Joacim had to go to Minnesota yesterday (booooo) but stopped by the new house to take photos (yayyyyy!!!)

Kitchen looking from the dining room

pantry, refrigerator and double oven cabinetry

tile for rear entry way, closet and bathroom

standing in the dining room looking at the living room

loft!!!

laundry room

I'm pretty sure this is the Izzy's bathroom

These pictures made my day.  I'm in LOVE with our choices, and the wall color is perfect!

New house photos!!!

Just got these photos sent to me by our new home coordinator!!!  I soooo needed to see something positive today :)  

master bedroom

family room (looking from kitchen)

kitchen

loft

master bathroom

Framing is done!

Joacim arrived in Minnesota this morning, and it seemed to take forever, but he FINALLY sent me some photos of the house.  Holy crap!  Isn't it incredible how FAST it's going up???

View from the living room

Laundry room and beyond that is the loft

I think this is the laundry room and then our room

And I think this is either Izzy's room or the spare bedroom

downstairs view of stairs and office from the kitchen

And the back of the house

I'm really glad Joacim was able to go up there and do a walkthrough with the builder.  He uncovered a couple of issues that we completely missed, and hopefully he's able to address a couple of things we forgot (like heat in the garage AND an electrical outlet in the master bathroom for a towel warmer.  I've wanted one soooo bad at our current home but there's no way to power one, and I'm GOING to have one in our new house.  SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!

We've got walls!!!

Here's what our new house in Minnesota looked like last Tuesday:

And here's what it looked like last Friday morning!!!  We have walls!  I was shocked when I drove up to the site on Friday...totally didn't expect to see anything, but I was PLEASANTLY surprised.  The guys were kind enough to let me take some photos...

looking into the kitchen

half-wall separating living room and dining room

living room

stairway to basement

living room windows and the view

dining room bump-out and view

front of house (garage will be on the right)

view from the road

I can't tell you how excited we are! Now that we see walls, it feels like it'll be done in no-time. We have a tentative close date of March 27th. Joacim's heading up there next week to do a framing inspection. Wish us luck that all goes well!