New House Progress - We have a roof!

Wow, we go away for a weekend and we were shocked when we got back how far along the house is! This is what it looked like when we got back from Ottawa:

It looks like a real house!

This is going to be a lot of house to clean....

Lily and Daddy hanging out in the family room

The family room

The temporary staircase, the real ones will curve to the left

The kitchen

The window above the foyer

The second floor

Now that's a complicated roof

Lily's room, it's already pink!

The roughed-in plumbing in the basement

Lily and mommy in the breakfast nook

It looks like they're starting the roof pretty soon. When I went by yesterday the shingles had been dropped off. They also poured the concrete curbs on the street and it looks like they'll be paving soon. Very exciting!

New House Progress - We have walls!

The floor goes on

All the materials are delivered

Walls!!!

The front of the house

Lily and mommy in the Kitchen

Lily and daddy in the Den

Standing in the family room

Standing in the breakfast nook looking up at the "ceiling"

The breakfast nook

Standing in the Family Room looking at the Kitchen

Looking at the Dining Room and the Den from the hallway

Standing on the second floor looking down at th Family Room

Princess Lily's New Castle

It's official, work has finally started on our dream house! We are SO excited! Yesterday we went to the design centre and picked out all of our interior finishes, with Lily's help of course. Last week we selected our cabinetry for the kitchen and the week before we selected our exteriors, so now it's all in the builder's hands. We're told we should move in by September 17th but we have our current house until September 28th so as long as they finish by then we'll be happy! Here are some pictures of the progress...

Our lot the day we officially owned it

The front of the house

The main floor floorplan

The second floor floorplan

What our street currently looks like from in front of our lot. The house far off in the distance will be the model home. It's the same design as our house without the modifications to the garage (the original plan's garage is 18'x20', we enlarged ours to 24'x20'). The house in the foreground is on lot 5, we're lot 9.

What the cul de sac looks like from the front of our lot.

Excavation began yesterday! We could hear the backhoe from our house (it's around the corner) so we went down to see.

Lily loved watching the backhoe, she kept clapping and waving her arms. We're going to take a lot of walks over the summer to check out the progress!