March 28, 2010: Week 14

Well, we have another coat of stucco, and some spackling on the inside of the house...

Here is our neighbors house... They're all painted already!

This pic is for you Lauri, This is what they do to the walls... she'll probably get a few more layers to give it that textured look. Chris tells me this is done out here because the construction is not as good so it hides the imperfections. But I don't believe that at all... because Amber is perfect :)

The Kitchen....

and Living Room...

And her back side :)

More to come soon!

March 21, 2010: Week 13

Amber got a tan! It's about time :) This is the first coat of many she'll get before she gets some nice coats of dark green paint.

They also finished up taping and sanding all the dry wall...


If you have all the time in the world, try doing this when the sun is going down...

Recognize those two beautiful people? We didn't either :)

March 14, 2010: Week 12

We've been insulated :)






She's coming along nicely... Maybe I should just reaname this the house blog :) We stopped by a few days later only to see this...

This trip provided us with our best sqeading moments yet :)

March 7, 2010: Week 11

Can you believe this is our house? No, it did not snow :) Chris and I were talking, and we can't believe in 5 months time they're able to build Ms. Amber, compared to the 5 months it is taking for my wedding dress to be made. One of these companies is incredibly more efficient!!!

We finally have some good daylight pictures to show! In addition to all the stuff on the outside, they also have the whole house practically wired...

Here is Mr. Fiancee practicing for the toilet :)

Here is the check list they have in the middle of our living room. I have no idea what it means, but I'm glad they're trying to stay on some type of schedule.

Also glad the bathtubs found their homes in the bathrooms, instead of hanging out in the kitchen

This is the shower in our master bathroom. I was a little nervous, because it looked very small!

This is a picture taken from the master closet looking down in to the living room. Seriously, the ceilings in the living room are ginormous!!

And last but not least... Everyone keeps joking that instead of bringing the construction workers sweets, we should be bringing them some "cerveza's"... but apparently they already bring their own :) Good thing Mr. Fiance hired a property inspector for our pre drywall meeting this week!

On to drywall!

February 28, 2010: Week 10

Windows! Yes, we have windows :) Ms. Amber is finally not looking so naked.

This is in our Kitchen...

Probably the only time we will ever see our bathtubs in the kitchen, hopefully!

This was the first time we had gone up the stairs... probably not too smart to do at night (which is why Chris is telling me to watch where I step).

I promise, we'll get some better daylight pictures soon!

February 21, 2010: Week 9

Ms. Amber is coming along nicely! Because we go visit her a couple times a week now, here are a few pictures of her now and a couple days ago.

Here she is just a couple days before...

More to come soon!

Presidents Day

So, I had some errands to run today, and decided to go see Ms. Amber. I tend to only post from the Sundays that we visit, but these pictures were too much fun not to post. They were putting the roof top on the house with a nice big crane :)

Here is the view when we drive in to the neighborhood...

I love holidays! Thank you Mr. President for having a holiday named after you, and all0wing the stock market to be closed so we can have the day off. Oh, and thank you for practically paying us to buy our first home!

February 14, 2010: Week 8

Ta-dah!!!!

Finally! In just two days time, some awesome construction workers were able to do this....

Get ready for picture overload.....

This was the first time we had pulled up and were able to see the construction workers in action... We were so excited that Chris and I decided they needed some cookies. So we went to the store and got them just that :)

Then went back to this :) This is the back of our home...

Then we went to go hang out in our living room... One of the things that Chris loves most about this house are the very very high ceilings and big windows....

and the pretty stairs...

and the pretty Kitchen...

This home building stuff is so much fun :)

February 7, 2010: Week 7

Work on Amber lane has been progressing nicely! For whatever reason, I've had to be out in Gilbert a couple times a week lately, which means I can take more pictures of the house. I was super excited when I saw this...

This is all the tubing within the concrete, which meant this was next...

Judging from what we've seen from other houses, we know our framing is next! We also know this because of the piles of wood in front of our home marked with our lot number :)

Hopefully we're right!