House update: we have bathroom tile!

As always, so much fun to visit the house - this week we were stoked to see they had added our garage door! They're going to paint it eventually, dark brown, I think.
They also painted the interior - all white and beautiful. It was funny because they put plastic sheets over all the cabinets and railings, but we still were able to pry around and see what we could as the looky loo's that we are.

Creative ways of drying the closet doors, methinks:

The railings have been stained and they look gorgeous! (at least from what we could see under the plastic, there was just one little knob peeking out)

They also have patched and painted all the baseboards and door trim, looks great.

Nothing seems to have changed outside, but here's a view of the back where the gas fireplace vents out from the living room.

But most exciting of all was the bathroom tile - we now have tile in our showers and tubs! I'm so glad we upgraded and customized each bathroom with tile - the white squares would have been lame, exactly what we had in the old house. But not now....wait for it.....Here's the shower downstairs...

and the tub in the spare bedroom bathroom:

and our shower and tub! Kinda funny to have to peer through the plastic, but you get the gist.

Our beautiful white closets!!!

Onward and upwards, can't wait to see what we have next week! Doorknobs? Counter tops? A girl can only dream...

Comicon was such a wah wah wah!

For the first year ever, I am sad to report, ComiCon failed to live up to our expectations. For some stupid reason, they allowed 100,000 more tickets to be sold this year and you could definitely feel the increased crowd impact. We lined up over 2 hours early for the first event in Hall H (which seats 6500 people, thank you very much and we've NEVER had a problem getting in) and didn't even get in! Sadly, because apparently we don't learn lessons very easily, we tried lining up 2 hours early for another event in the afternoon and didn't get in again. Warrenskis, foiled! Feel the rage!!!

Here's us when we were still happy and hopeful, lined up with our friend Mo.
Then we visited our friend Aaron who unfortunately had to work the event:
After we got the bad news of not getting in anywhere for panels, we rallied by going to lunch at one of our favorite places: the Tin Fish.

After that, we ended up just wandering around for the rest of the day, crazy people watching. At least that was still fun:
and more fun stuff:
Green Man from Sunny in Philadelphia:

And of course, we love famous people watching, this year we saw Patton Oswald - he was actually really nice to talk to and we chatted a bit but look how stoked he was to meet me, haha!:
and Hugo Weaving:
and Morgan from Chuck:
And Wesley Snipes (pay your taxes!!):
Rob was able to rally from the earlier disappointment quite nicely, I wonder why (oh, and before you get all "poor Beth watching her Man with all those hotties", please consider I'm the on who asked all these girls to take a photo with Robbio - am I the best wife ever or what?:I love watching the crazy as much as the next girl (see exhibit A:)
but this poor guy outside made me feel like I was at work:
I guess, all in all, we got some good people watching in, but boooooo on the rest of it, booooo! Oh well.....

House update: Railings, cabinets and doors, oh my!

*please note, we finally wore Rob down and forced the poor guy to wear the pink hardhat*

Holy moly - this week's house visit had the most amount of change we've seen in 7 days....like always, it was so emotional and fun to be there but this time was crazy fun! We kept running from room to room yelling "look at this, babe!"
We have the rock facade on the garage, and it's gorgeous.We have shutters too! They've also done all the outside window casings. Here's a view of the front door pathway:We have a front door!!! Welcome to our house. It was actually kind of funny - there's doors everywhere but no doorknobs yet, so the wind kept blowing doors shut while we were there, which made us keep freaking out and jumping. Here's hoping for doorknobs next weekend!
The railings are GORGEOUS, I'm sooooo glad we sprung for those, they're beautiful. They're going to eventually stain the wood to match our espresso cabinets.
We have a squatter too...look at this beautiful web! Help yourself to all the bugs you want, little spider, you can live here rent-free if you do us that solid.
They also did all the baseboards and door trims, looks like they have holes to patch but I think they're beautiful: And, drum roll please....we have kitchen and bathroom cabinets! Here they are in the kitchen: I'm so glad we upgraded to the shaker cabinets, it's definitely more our style than the fancier beveled ones they offered as a standard. Love the color we picked too!!!
Here's our counter island-bar with the sink and dishwasher eventually. (slurpee sold separately)They also did our fireplaces, they're beautiful! Here's the living room one: and the outside courtyard one:

Ooooohhhhh, and one of my favorite rooms of the house is starting to come together: I LOVE LOVE LOVE our master closet! Welcome to my new happy place, you're welcome to visit any ol' time:

Master bath cabinets: Spare bedroom #1 closet: Laundry room sink and cabinets:
Oh, and on a side note, we're now less than 60 days our from closing so we were able to lock in an amazing mortgage rate of 4.5%....woooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
(Please send donations now). ha!

Don't tell, but we finally did some graffiti on some random lumber scraps. That's what they get for leaving orange spray paint around. Such rebels we are.