Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Stressed

So yes, it has been a while since i last updated my blog. Things have been go go go with no stopping but to sleep at night. We are have moved in with my mom and dad and things are going well. We are still in the process of moving out of the rental and its a wreck! moving is so messy and i hate it. then we get an email tonight that the landlord wants to show the house for four hours on saturday... ha ha ha well the house is an absolute wreck and we are in the process of moving and will be there all day on saturday making trips back and forth. I'm just so ready to be out of there completely so we can relax a little. ugh i'm exhausted and stress from moving and school. time to go to bed. 

Monday, March 23, 2009

Siding!!

Real quick update - because I need to go to bed and we have two puppies in the bed with us tonight! (we are watching chesney for my mom and dad). Hillary and Chris had their final walk through for their house today and Hillary is the BEST and took pictures of our house!!! Thanks Hillary! Sooooo... we have siding and a chimney! The siding isn't painted yet and we might try to ride up there tomorrow night to see what else they've done! yaya!! so exciting and they are moving FAST! 







P.S. We are having a little run in with the fence situation. Apparently the HOA rules have just changed to say a fence can only go off the back of a house and go straight back so it can't come out a few feet and then go back... i know its hard to explain.... but trust me it sucks. So Jenny is asking the HOA guy to see what we can do.... keep your fingers crossed. 

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Windows, Roof, and Wrapped!

Progress! Rena and I went up to the house this weekend and they have done quite a bit! We now have windows, a front door, a roof, and it's wrapped! you can start to see what each room is going to be on the inside too! 
This is the front (obviously)



This is upstairs looking into the other bedrooms and bathroom from the master

Rena pretending to take a shower in the master bathroom
Master bedroom

Downstairs looking into the kitchen 

Today we started packing up and moving furniture for the garage sale and we now have a couch in the living room and thats it. No TV or tables. I think we'll be at my mom and dad's pretty soon maybe even this week. I don't like being amongst this packing mess/nightmare! 
We went to dinner with Lauren, Sarah and Ava tonight! It was a lot of fun and Ava is absolutely adorable! This must happen more often! :-) Now we are about to get ready for bed because we are exhausted. ha 
I don't know what the next step is for our house? maybe brick and siding? or maybe they start wiring stuff... i have no clue.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

St. Patrick's Day

So, no new house updates. We haven't been up there since Saturday. Which is rather shocking acutally. But, it has been raining so we figure they haven't gotten much done. We are having a yard sale March 28 and will be selling a ton of our stuff. So much so where we will probably not be able to live in our rental house once we have the yard sale. SOOOOO that means we will be living with my mom and dad after that.

Which I'm kind of looking forward to. Monday night we went over there to see my Mom's new fridge and we ended up staying a while and playing Wii. Then last night we went over there again for dinner and green beer. We brought Jake with us last night so he could start getting used to the environment since that will be his temporary home. And he did great. I think after last night I'm a lot less worried about moving in with my parents and having Jake. It's going to be all good.
We had a lot of fun and I'm sure there will be many more fun nights to come. Not to mention dinner was excellent and Rena and I both can't wait to start eating really good food again! ;-)

So this weekend is going to be extremely busy for us. Betsy wants to show the house to another person again on Saturday. And we are going to be trying to bring our yardsale stuff over to Rena's parents for next weeekend. And start packing. bleehhhh busy busy busy.

Oh and if anyone is interested in anything we are getting rid of let me know. TV, kitchen table, plates, pots and pans, furniture, etc. ...

Sunday, March 15, 2009

weekend

I rode by the house on Friday on my way home from work to get some daylight pictures of the house. They were working on it so i didn't really want to get out and get in their way. So this is a picture i just took from the car. There is a second floor now! 


Then my mom and dad wanted to go up to see it so this is the picture i took then. much to my surprise there are a few walls on the second floor now! 


But, it has been raining this weekend and its suppose to rain tomorrow too so that will delay construction for a while. 

Friday we helped Rena's mom move furniture and such. She is getting new tile put in and has to move all the furniture out.
Saturday we went shopping for running shoes for Re but had no luck. Then we went to Provinos for dinner. Something we haven't had in months and months. It was great. 

Today we went up to the outlets and I got two shirts and Rena found some running shoes. We also went into Restoration Hardware and found a bed we loved. AND it was 60% off. 

gotta go get drops for Rena's eye...



Thursday, March 12, 2009

Framing

Last night was RuSan's night. This has become a weekly tradition with Rena's family. And we always have to do a Sake Bomb. Love it. This is a picture I found on the internet to help me explain in for some chance you don't know what a Sake Bomb is. Well in the big cup is beer and the chopsticks hold up the other cup which has hot sake in it. Then everyone yells "I say sake you say bomb... Sake... Bomb... Sake... Bomb... Sake.... Bomb!!!" and then they bang their fist on the table to make the cup of sake drop in. And its a competition to who can drink it the fastest. Well I need to work on my skills because Hamp (Rena's dad) just seems to pour it in without swallowing. 



Tonight we went to Taco Mac with my dad because we are all members of the passport club. That is always fun and we had a great time tonight. My dad somehow talked Rena and I into trying one of his death wings. Holy COW!!!! those were HOT!

After dinner Rena and I decided to go up to the house really quick because she hasn't seen it since the foundation was finished. They were suppose to start framing tomorrow but we figured that wouldn't be happening because of the rain that is coming. Well we get there and framing had been started!!!! We were both so excited and jump out of the car and ran up to the house and immediately called both of our moms to tell them! Ha  I know these pictures are really dark (because it was dark and I took them with my iPhone) But you can kind of see some of it. They are almost done with the whole downstairs. SO EXCITING!!!!! 


Everything seems to be happening so fast now. Tomorrow is Friday woo hoo! We are going to go out to the house this weekend and hopefully get daylight pictures! 

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

old blog

if you want to see my old blog you can find it here

web.mac.com/caitlin.gentry

Pre-Construction Meeting

Today was the pre construction meeting for the house! Rena didn't come because she had to go to happy hour with some agents. Usually she can skip those kind of things but now that she got promoted to co-team lead she needs to go. 

So Rena's mom came with me instead! Which was great! Of course, mister Jaxson tagged along too and was a very good boy the whole time! 


This is Jaxson the other night when he fell asleep with his toys and a toothbrush in his mouth! 

So first we sat down with our builder. His name is Ben and I really like him. He talked to us about the options we picked and the process and where they are right now and what we can expect in the future. Then we went out to our lot so he could show us what was going on and what they are planning to do with the draining and grading of the lot. Here are the pictures so far. 
Drive Way


Before Foundation


Beginning of Foundation


Backyard

They poured the concrete this morning!



Ben said that he hopes to start the framing on Friday (weather permitting) And that we might be ahead of schedule and could possibly move in before our original closing date! yay! 

On another note, it has been so hard to switch to this time change. Falling back is always easier. But that's ok because it is 6:30 and STILL light outside like it is the middle of the day. I love it! I'm ready for Rena to come home. She is still at happy hour. She just sent me a text that said mexican tonight on patio! So I guess that's what we will be doing! Hmm I have more to post but will do it later. bye! 











Trying it out...

I have a blog through iWeb on the mac but Rena recently switched over to blogger so I guess I might give it a try as well. We will see how it goes. I will probably use this mainly to post updates about our house we are building in Cumming. Construction has started and things will start to move fairly quickly! We are really excited. 

Another reason I'm going to use blogger for this is because it's too hard to figure out how to post pictures within in blog on iWeb without the format getting messed up. But no worries, I'm still a die hard mac person! ;-)
 
Pre construction Meeting was today!

P.S. this weather lately has been fantastic.