They've started!

They've started our house!

Yesterday, we drove to our new neighborhood. We'd called earlier and found that they'd poured our slab. They're letting it set for a few days. We drove by our lot and the footprint of our house is down! My hubs took a gander at the slab and said it looks nice and smooth. No cracking anywhere. It looks funny with all the pipes coming out of the slab.

We stopped by the sales office and they said we're on the schedule to get the framing started THIS week too. This particular builder has one crew frame the entire house. This way there's consistency and no confusion as to what needs to get done.

The sales associate showed us the landscaping plan. The lot we're on backs up to subdivision landscaping. We'll have view (iron) fencing along our back wall. But folks won't be able to really see into our back yard after a few months. The builder is putting about 5 trees along the edge of the subdivision landscaping. So we'll see trees and bushes when we're sitting under our back porch instead of block fencing. What's great though is we can determine what views we'll see out of our windows.

They told us that the first family to move in will be closing the day before Thanksgiving. Lucky! They'll have that LONG weekend to get a bunch done. Our home is on a different street than the first lots that were sold. But we found out that the builder is going to have a "block" party sometime in January so the neighbors can get to know one another. How many builders do that?

I'm sure that in the next couple of months I'll be letting you know all about what's being done to the h