We Were FRAMED!!!!

Lots of fun stuff to report!

Sometime at the end of last week or over the weekend, they finished back-filling the other sides of our house and our backyard looks AWESOME. They decreased the slope of our backyard, which make the yard look much bigger. We're pretty pleased!

Yesterday, Stephanie called Brian and asked him if we were interested in moving UP our closing date because they were AHEAD OF SCHEDULE! Heck yes we are!!! So, instead of June 4, we're now closing on May 29, which is kinda cool because that will be exactly 2 years and 2 days after our wedding. Even better, now we can move out of our apartment earlier! Conveniently, we also received a letter that our 60-day notice is due March 31. We're planning to extend the lease for a week into June, just to have plenty of time to move and clean. We called our mortgage guy at USAA and he said it would be no problem to meet a May 29 closing, which was good.

Changing the closing date was good/bad. Since we moved it to May, our first mortgage payment will now be due July 1, instead of August 1; so that kinda sucks. However, at closing we'll save about $650 dollars since we'll only have to pay interest from May 29-31, as opposed to June 4-30; so that kinda rocks. Mainly, we're just thrilled that they're ahead of schedule.

Speaking of which, we rolled up to the neighborhood today and low and behold we actually have a frame. Like a real house. It's pretty incredible. In fact, they were still out there working at 7 PM. It looks awesome and they move so quickly. We were pretty shocked. I think the reason they frame it so quickly after the lumber delivery is because there is a ton of wood and nowhere to store it and I think it's pretty likely that it would be an easy target for theft. (We would not be pleased if some fool jacked our wood!) So they were totally moving on it--most of the first floor is already done and it looks like tomorrow they'll be starting on the second floor. Oh happy day.

A few pictures

Back yard:




That's a lot of plywood:


Front-ish view:


Front view and Brian practicing his Spanish (which consists of hola and muchos gracias):






Side yard:




PS: I just realized how blurry some of those pictures are. Sorry. I am not completely lame with my camera--it was windy was all get out and that's my story and I'm sticking to it.