A walk in the park, some visitors, and PROGRESS!

First there were holes. Then there were trenches. Now there are "footers" (I think)!

On Saturday Jeff and I had another appointment with Judy to finalize our selections. We took out a couple of nonessential upgrades but still went over our what we thought we'd spend. The builder gave us $35K and we ended up spending $37K. But, I think we made good choices. Dr. Olowude (my supervisor last year) said that if he had it to do all over again (meaning building a house), he would have had chosen more upgrades. He never led me wrong before!

So, we signed our final stuff. Judy told us our "lumber" has already been ordered and that she will be ordering our cabinets and other items Tuesday. She is working on a "board" for us. It will have samples of our flooring/wood/tiles/paint/etc. She estimated it would be ready in about 2 weeks.

Jamie and Rob came to check out our model and lot on Sunday. Jamie noted that the house seems to be much more "like a home" than the previous homes we thought we were getting. Rob was kind of quiet, but he did mention being "tired from all the walking" ( I think that was supposed to be in reference to the square footage).

Sunday afternoon we decided to take a ride/walk along the trail to the park. Leo rode his scooter, Ben rode his bike, while Jeff and I walked. Actually, Jeff rode the bike and scooter on several occasions too! We had fun playing on the playground equipment and tossing the gooey ball around. It was a very nice afternoon.