Anyone want some wood??

The clearing is well underway. It should be done early next week. There are huge piles of wood all around the property. Please come and take some!!! Seriously.....
My coworker's husband and friend already made a trip up to get some, so hopefully it will disappear a little at a time. 

Anyways, a plumber came out and gave us more bad news about tapping into the sewer system so it looks like we are going to be getting a septic tank. 

Here are more pictures/videos 

Looks like fun

Please come take our wood!!

Going down our driveway to where the house will sit

Brush pile

The pine smelled good

Looking up towards the road, coming back from our far, far away sewer main

 More wood, who wants to have a huge bonfire? Bring a tent and a chainsaw.

Standing where our house will be, looking into the backyard

The Bobcat hard at work

Actual physical progress!

http://www.raderlandscaping.com/ 
Chris, my next-door neighbor growing up, is clearing our land for us.  He started today clearing the general area. He will be there for the next few days with other guys to finish the clearing and to do the construction driveway. I will post more pictures when all the work is complete. 

Clearing land.....

Our driveway.....kind of

Some pictures from Chris....my nephews will enjoy these ones

Color Meeting and Excavation Date

Today was a big day. We met with Amy from Wayne Homes and got to pick out all the details for our house. Pretty exciting considering everything else we have dealt with the past month has been bad news. Instead of writing a lot, I'm just going to post pictures of some of the choices we made. 

We also set a date with our excavator to begin clearing the land this upcoming Tuesday!

Wayne Homes Montgomery- Craftsman Elevation. Ours will be a mirror image of this with a side load garage

The floor plan. We changed some things around, but the basic set up is the same (again mirror image)

Stone wainscot, "Sand dune" siding, blue shakes, and blue-black shingles

Foyer flooring

Foyer flooring next to Great Room-Kitchen flooring

My photoshopped picture of the Kitchen cabinets next to the flooring (because I forgot to take a picture)

Great Room and Kitchen flooring with paint colors for baseboards and walls (we will be painting some walls different colors, but this will be the main color)

Kitchen Cabinet color with paint colors and counter top (upside down)

Kitchen Cabinet with close-up of counter top

Master Bathroom cabinet, vanity top and flooring

Master Bathroom Sink

My photoshopped Master Bathroom

Close up of Master Bathroom vanity top

Guest Bathroom cabinet, vanity top and flooring

Guest Bathroom Sink (I was shipped the wrong sink and the other one I originally purchased is now sold out. The only thing that was different was the faucet. Anyways, I bought this one and it was actually $40 cheaper so I guess it's all good)

My photoshopped Guest Bathroom

Close up of Guest Bathroom vanity top

Other things like lights, doors, faucets, etc were picked from pictures so I didn't take pictures of the pictures. 

Our lot inspection meeting is scheduled for December 30th. This is when our Field Manager (FM) will meet us at our cleared lot and measure out exactly where the house will go. 

A Big Week

We are in the middle of talking to two different people to get the land cleared out. Hopefully we will have decided on who to go with in a couple of days (or less). Everything is more expensive than we had planned in terms of the land prep, so that's a disappointment. But in general, we know that we are blessed to even have this opportunity so we are trying to look at the positives. 

We have our colors meeting in 3 days!!! There are a couple things that we are buying/doing ourselves including the bathroom sinks. Today I bought our two sinks/faucets for the master bathroom and then another one for the guest bathroom. Gotta love Cyber Monday!! Now hopefully everything looks just as good in person as it does online. 

I'll be updating again on Thursday with our color choices!!