Our House!

We were finally offered the house we've been waiting for! We signed the papers on the 22nd and are going to select all our upgrades on the 29th. Once that's done, we "go final" and it will take 5-6 months to be built, so around April-Mayish! Perfect timing... right after I get back and a few months before the wedding. Here is a map of the neighborhood with our lot highlighted. It's not a "corner" lot, it's an "end" lot (pretty much the same thing).

The lot is 4797 sq feet, the third biggest that was offered at the time, at least for the alley style house we wanted. For those that don't know, an Alley style house has the garage in the back of the house. Here are the pics of the outside of the house and the floorplan we chose...

The floor plan is 2475 sq feet, way too much space for the amount of furniture we have. As you can see, the downstairs is very open. The Family room will have a corner fireplace as depicted. The upsatirs is extremely spacious as well. My dream is to have a 40" plus size flat panel TV on the wall in the loft, but we'll see what happens. Anywho, we are extermely excited and can't wait to move in. Oh yeah, there's plenty of floor space for all of those coming days before the wedding so you can save money on a hotel room. We have an xtra queen bed, and a blow up mattress, so do M&H and I'm sure they will bring it (FYI).

Here is the one of the hottest images I've ever seen!!! This is our Lot, #47!

What else can I say but... WOW!!!!

This will be our Front Yard. The major sidewalk is adjacent to our house with a slight incline which will require a few steps to walk up to get to our porch. The pic is taken from the end of our lot to Caolyn, the other end of our lot (front side).

Below is a pic from one corner to the opposite other. Pretty Huge if I may so myself!

Another Great Trip

I wasn't expecting 2 great trips in a row, but lucked out! This last trip I was fortunate enough to go to Rota, Spain. Yep, it's a rough life and I'm just trying to get by...

These were taken from the first Cantina we visited. We weren't hurting for beautiful scenery, nor Sangria, which differed quite a bit from place to place.

Here is a pic taken from the balcony of my hotel room. We stayed at the Hotel Caribe downtown. It was a great location, only a few blocks from everything that's happening... which isn't much during the early afternoon as the local populus is taking part of their national past time, the Siesta!

It worked out great b/c we needed a nap as well before hitting the town that night. However, we missed lunch and were starving by dinner b/c they don't eat until 8 - 11pm.


We had dinner at Argentino's, Delicious! We were then on a mad hunt to find a pub that everyone was talking about. However, we got a little lost and decided to go into the next pub we saw, which couldn't have been more American unless we were back in the states.

Oh well, it was still a blast, even at midnight when some locals came in with their 2-8 year old kids (very odd).