The past couple of weeks have been insanely busy, there has barely been time to catch my breath.  The good news is that we are on schedule and we've gotten approval for the mortgage from the underwriter... pretty much.  Still some paperwork to round up for them, each request gets more ridiculous than the last.  Just need to promise them our first born son and sign our souls away to the devil and we should be in the clear.  

There's only one way to survive the final week of construction on a new house:
Chocolate Chip Cake and Ice Cream!

We finally got to pull up the dirty construction paper and see how our oak floor survived painting.  Thankfully there weren't too many hidden surprises.

The exterior painting is all done.  I took this after a day spent staining all of the wood on the front of the house.  Would have liked to get some pictures of that process but everyone's hands were too dirty to handle the camera.

I believe this is after one coat of finish on the floor.  You'll have to wait until the final walkthrough to see it in it's entirety ;)

Another one that I wish we had taken more pictures of - insulation installation in the crawl space.  It was pretty easy to do but really hot since we were insulating the radiant heat pipes.

Clean clean clean, those were the words of the day for Limei ;)

It was absolutely gorgeous this past weekend, I wish I had worn shorts.

Believe it or not this is my wife mere moments later.  She was not excited to be cleaning that day...

I think she had something more like this on her mind :)

And finally the shower door was installed yesterday, it really tied our bathroom together.  Coming up next - a video walkthrough!