Remaining Foundation Walls

The masons came out and built the remaining foundation walls for the upstairs (main) garage today. It will be filled in with dirt, stone, and finally concrete.
1st Photo: looking into garage, small opening on left is for future man door, next to double garage door
2nd Photo: looking into garage, towards front of lot
3rd Photo: looking into garage straight ahead
4th Photo: front of house, house on right, main garage on left
5th Photo: front wall of main garage

Basement Floor, Part 1

Here are some pics from around 1:00 this afternoon. Concrete was poured for the basement floor and for the footings (for the upper garage walls). Depending on the weather, we might try to go back out to tonight and get some more pics of the basement floors from the back of the lot.

Basement slab prep

Here are some pics from last night's basement slab prep. They are finishing up with that this morning, and hopefully will begin pouring concrete this afternoon for the basement floor. We're crossing our fingers that possible rain doesn't halt the process...

Tile and Carpet, oh my!

We spent our Sunday morning at the Tile Showroom. Decisions, decisions! We picked out floor tile, kitchen backsplash, master bath/shower tile, and carpet in about an hour ~ with 2 kids in tow. Not too bad!!
TOP PHOTO: (ingore the granite that the tile in sitting on) On the far right is our kitchen backsplash. Bottom left is the floor tile for foyer, kitchen, hall, and bathrooms (16x16). Above the floor tile is the decorative tile that we will cut apart into 3 strips (so it's about 4" tall) and use that in our shower and around the bath. So pretty in real life. It's a combination of glass and stone.
MIDDLE PHOTO: Sample of the carpet for the craft room/office.
BOTTOM PHOTO: Sample of the carpet for living room, bedrooms, and upstairs.

We're hoping and praying to pour the basement slab and begin framing the remaining basement walls by the end of the week. Pics to follow...

Slowly, but surely...

The construction slowed down this week, but we're hoping and praying to get moving again on Monday. So far this week, the plumbers have done the rough plumbing for the basement - for a future bathroom and for the basement garage sink/floor drain.
Last Saturday, we picked out granite for the kitchen (New Caledonia) and bathrooms (Giallo Santacecilia and Giallo Ornamental). They put our name on huge slabs, so we know exactly which ones we're getting. Can't wait to see them in the house! ;)
This coming weekend, we hope to pick out tile for the floors (foyer, kitchen, laundry room, bathrooms) and back-splash for the kitchen. No hardwoods in this house, since the floor breaks in the house plan don't really allow for a good line between hardwood and tile. With as messy as we are in the kitchen, there's no way we could have hardwoods there.

The Basement Walls are Here Part 1

The precast basement walls were delivered and set today thanks to Ideal Precast. Monday is under slab plumbing followed Tuesday by the prep for the rest of the basement slab.

Stone

The stone shooters came out yesterday and sprayed stone - which will go under our basement walls (in lieu of footers). Basement walls are scheduled to be delivered and set up today. I'll post pics later.
Top Pic - Pile of dirt, that will eventually go in the front of the house
Bottom Pic - Stone Shooters
Middle Pics - Stone for basement walls to sit on