They dug a hole!!!! And we have internet again!

Our internet is back up. Yay!!!  Our "summer rental" is going well except for the fact that the new sidewalks and curbs are going in this week. We have to park a block away (for today).  Everything went smoothly with the move!  The kids had a few melt downs leaving the old house but they love the rental and have settled in nicely. Not bad for two four year olds and a three year old.  I have yet to download the pictures for the "fn" hole as it has become affectionately known as (not around the kids) but, it did get dug in spite of the crazy amounts of rain last week.  The footers were in and they are expected to put up the basement walls on Wednesday.  I will have pics up as soon as they fly off the card.

Waiting to break ground!

Our pre-construction meeting went great! It was nice to meet our project manager and get our projected move month (they give you a month at this point. they said they would have the move week by the pre drywall meeting)  We spent a bunch upgrading the lighting package.  The white mushroom lights weren't going to cut it.  I think they are waiting on the rain to stop and the permits to come through to break ground.  At least a few more days.  We had an Unofficial ground breaking with the kids and their sand buckets last weekend. The kids had a blast.
In the mean time we are moving everything to the storage units and getting ready for our "summer home".  We don't have an official closing date yet but we are planning to move this weekend. 

Blog Fail

I spent the last few days wondering why no one was visiting.  I turns out I changed the permissions settings so that only I could see the page. I think one of the boys was randomly clicking things.  Anyway, we have a meeting this Friday to go sign the sellers paperwork for our old house.  I will post pics when they break ground.

Waiting is the hardest thing.

We are waiting for our rep to call us and schedule the Pre-construction meeting.  And waiting. I'm sure it feels like a lot longer than it should.  In the mean time we have been packing up everything to move to our "Summer House".  Still waiting to hear when the closing is on our old house. I will be  very mad if they push it back to after school is out.  School is the reason we are staying an hour away from the new house during the summer.  We  could have gone anywhere this summer.  I will post more pictures when they break ground.

New Ravenna Model Home in the Area

I visited the new model home nearby today because it is exactly the same model we are building! The aren't supposed to open until this weekend but I thought I would at least drive by it. They were putting the final touches on it and let me walk through.  It is beautiful!  I think we are going to be very happy with it.  It is weird to see the real floor plan after just seeing the paper plans.  The rooms look bigger in person and the closets, basement, bathrooms and laundry seem smaller.  I really wasn't sure how big the front entry would be but it was much bigger than the floor plan and  online tour made it look. After I was done inside I wanted to walk around it but my first step sunk about six inches in the mud.  I'll have to save it for a drier day.
Our buyer is all approved so we are moving to a rental house in three weeks. That should be an adventure in itself.  We are renting a four bedroom house that is normally occupied by college kids until our house is done. It will make the new house look like a palace.  Hopefully we will be in the new place by the middle of August.

Pre construction meeting?

What should we expect from the preconstruction meeting?

Our flooring choices

 Our Flooring meeting went great!  The Flooring rep was extremely nice. It was about three hours long.  It was difficult to imagine how a two square foot sample would translate to a whole house. We did it though and we are very happy with our choices!

Our overall choices 

(English chestnut stained railings)

Timberlake Chery spice cabinets with the crown moulding

Armstrong Evanston Spice on the first floor

Butterum Granite colored laminate counters

Shaw Braxton Wild Silk Carpet throughout house (level "c")

 except living room and dining room.

Dining room and Living room Carpet. Shaw Collinsville Sand Pebble

Master Bath -Armstrong Evanston Cottage White

Master Bath. We upgraded to the white cabinets in both Baths.

Armstrong Huntley Road Sandstone in Guest bath and laundry

Guest Bath And Laundry

Moving forward

     We are moving out in less than a month!  Wow it is hard to believe how fast time goes by.  Almost everything we own will be in a storage unit this summer.  It worked out perfectly that the College is out for the summer exactly the same amount of time that we need to have our house finished.  We found a whole house for rent this summer for less than a quarter of our monthly payment in our new house.  Of course it is normally occupied by college kids so it will make our new home look like a palace.
     The kids are excited about meeting new friends and getting bigger bedrooms. And relieved that all of their toys are moving with us too!
     Our flooring meeting is tonight... I hope the choices are easy ones. I'll try to post pictures tomorrow. Our pre-construction meeting has yet to be scheduled and our house should be done by the end of July/beginning of August.

It's our mud!!!

Our unexpected visitor!

We are going to build this floor plan!

The Ravenna

 

The lot we are leaning towards.

From the road

We are thinking of building a new home.

We are meeting with a Ryan Homes representative this Saturday to get an idea about  pricing of the "ravenna".
http://www.ryanhomes.com/community/new-york/auburn-meadows-canandaigua/ravenna

Just a starting point for us now.  We just met with a Realtor yesterday to see what we could get for our house.