The White Fluff with some fluff on the side

Poor Galileo has been quite neglected with all of our house-obsession, we haven't gone to dog beach in months! He was starting to get a little mangy, there's nothing worse than on a walk having someone ask "what kind of dog is that?" in the same tone they would have asked "what is that horrible growth on your face?"

Well, he finally got his just rewards yesterday for putting up with parents who have nothing more to talk about these days then some house they're building. We had a beautiful day at the beach and then G suffered through an afternoon at the Groomers. I bring you: a happy and fluffy little buddy!

House update: we have colored stucco!

Woot! The outside of our house is coming along, it looks like they've done the first layer of the colored stucco. It's so beautiful, I love the color, plus it's fun to see all the neighbors houses coming together too.

The tile roof is almost done too!

We brought along our official furry inspector again.

Who promptly marked his territory like a good boy. Way to show them who's boss, buddy.

The courtyard looks cool in the red color.

The scaffolding is all gone in the entry now and it's sooo cool to see how big and open it is - definitely stunning to walk in the door!

G and I modeled the upper railing...can't wait until those are filled in with actual railings, it makes me nervous having him up there.

Some mesh stuff in the bathrooms, probably to start the tiling soon.

And finally, looks like they're about to do the stone work outside since it was in boxes on our front "lawn" - can't wait until that's in!

The most exciting part of this week's house update is our neighbors two houses ahead of us in the schedule have gotten their cabinets, railings, doors, and closet organizers! So exciting, can't wait to see ours next week, let's hope we have those things too!

House update: we've got stucco! (kinda)

We took Galileo to the new house for the first time, snuck in the white fluffy contraband so he could check out the new digs

and mark it for his own...

I think he approves, he seemed pretty stoked to run around from room to room and plan out where his prime napping spots are going to be.

Holy cow, we have stucco! Well, at least the first layer. It actually kind of looks like a grey cement house in Mexico right now, but apparently the 3rd layer they do is going to be the actual color.
They've also done the 2nd stage of the dry wall, looks like they've taped and sanded and rounded the walls. Here's our fridge cutout:

Master bedroom:

Office:

So proud of us, too, we've got some of our to-buy list marked off: got a big beautiful bed, a washer and dryer, and our sofa and ottoman! Feels good to mark stuff off....there's plenty more to come. woohoo!!! Happy 4th everybody!!!

Fair-travaganza

We went to the fair with our friends Jason and Alex this weekend - it was awesome: beer festival and roller derby, what better combo is that?



The boys were pretty stoked with the beer fest and I planted myself at the roller derby rink - I'd never seen that in person and it was hysterical! I had a blast watching the girls pummel each other that I completely forgot to take pictures...but you'll just have to picture the glory yourselves. I even got asked to try out for the San Diego team but, pass, I really like my teeth the way they are, thanks. Had good fun trying to think up my roller derby name though. The winner? Legs LaDouche, thankyouverymuch.

After all that beer and girl fights, we headed out to stuff ourselves silly with fried goodness. My favorite is still the fried pickles, but I also tried the fried zucchini this year and it wasn't bad:

Alex tempted us with all sorts of fried goodness: fried smores, fried pop tarts, fried avocado, fried twinkie...good lord, my arteries just clogged.

And seriously? They actually offered a fried stick of butter this year, blech! We didn't go that far and taste that one, I mean, good lord, that's a horrible concept, a cardiologist's worst nightmare.

The boys were also into the pork chop on a stick:

After becoming poster children for overeaters anonymous, we headed out to test our fair games skillz. Big winners!!


And lastly, you know we love photo cutouts and photo booths, good times:

House update: we have freakin' WALLS!!!!!!

Oh my gosh, it's official - there's sheet rock on our walls! Our house actually looks like a house - it's so fun to be able to walk room to room now and not see into the next room. This was the first weekend we totally forgot our camera, but my new cell phone seemed to take some decent pics!

The garage:
We have insulation in the kitchen:

the great/dining room:

downstairs spare bedroom:
going upstairs:
spare bedroom:
spare bedroom bathroom: Oh, and the craziest piece of news? Now they think we're going to be ready to move in during the first week of September, absolute lunacy! Crap...we've got a looooooooong list of stuff to buy, gotta go!

House update: we have black stuff!!!

Ok, so we were in Nebraska for a whole weekend so we missed our very first weekend of going out to the house, and holy cow have things been moving and shaking since we were last there! We took our friends Aaron and Mo out with us this weekend to check the place out, and MAN were we surprised by all the changes.

The entire outside of the house is now covered with black stuff, apparently a water proofing situation...plus we now have some roof tiles ready to be installed! It's all happening!!!

We also have windows and doors - it's amazing how little touches like that make such a difference esthetically...it really looks like a house now. A big black house, but still, a house.


We also have our two fireplaces and have since learned that the inside one is gas-only, the outside one can either be gas or wood - kinda cool! Aaron found the stud:
And I discovered some of the construction guys must be bored. Wonder if it was Cucko and Esteban up to no-good again:
Our bathtubs have also been installed and filled with water - I can't wait to take a long soak in this big ol' master bath tub, I haven't had a big tub like that since I was a kiddo! Hopefully they'll clean it first... :)

Here, Aaron admires our "landscaping" - our big huge weed that apparently is going to come free with the house. We shall call him Walter the killer Weed.

We also had our first official walk through yesterday which means they're ready to slap the drywall up - it was really neat to walk around with the construction super and ask questions and learn all about the wiring and plumbing, etc. Hopefully next weekend we'll get to see drywall! Stay tuned...