Update

Front of house with roof sheating all on and waiting for roofers are are scheduled for Tuesday!

Inside of garage, you can see the windows stacked to the right just waiting to be installed. The man door on the right is the "workshop" or Tracey's room and the room I am standing in is the kitchen.
STAIRS! We have stairs! YEAH! I know sounds like a silly little thing but it is so cool to be able to "go downstairs" instead of having to walk around the outside.
Back of house, me standing in the living room window, and Trevor is below me playing with his excavator.
The front porch. The importance of this picture is that Ron has now decided that my "endless" fountain in the corner was not sufficient and has decided that a Koi pond would look much better there. I have always wanted a pond with a fountain so I am game I just know how much more work this will be. So I am looking for any input, words of advice, etc., on ponds with waterfalls and fish. I do hear that keeping the racoons out is really difficult so here is to hoping we just don't become the local hang out for the neighborhood racoons. Ron is thinking the pond will be a shape of a peanut and be around 5' x 8'.
Lots and lots of stuff happening at the house. I am not sure if you noticed in the pictures above but Ron spent last weekend regrading the front and getting it more level and also did a little regrading in the back. We decided that we need more fill in the backyard and that we will for sure do the retaining wall on the garage side of the house so that we will have more parking. I think we have also decided that since we walk be "walking" through that side of the yard that is where the vegetable garden will be in theory. We will see how that all works out though because I have never had a veggie garden but Trevor really wants one so we will give it a shot.

As I mentioned before the roof is scheduled to start being installed on Tuesday. So the builder needed the flashing for the woodstove chimney so we had to make the final decision on the woodstove.
My first pick was a Jotul F400 see this link...http://www.jotul.us/content/products/ProductArticle____3107.aspx If we would have bought this stove I would have gotten the blue/black enamel with the fancy front door. But we didn't buy this one.

The price on the Jotul was a little higher than the one we went with which was my second choice okay really third choice. We bought a Lopi Leyden...http://www.lopistoves.com/product_guide/detail.aspx?id=240
This is a really nice stove we had Lopi stoves in the Camano house. The reason it was my 3rd choice though was becuase I don't like cast iron, it always looks dirty to me. So I had originally picked out the red enamel one, well that adds $500 to the cost so it looks like I will have to live with a dusty looking stove. I am sure there is some trick to keeping them looking clean so if you know please share! Ron has from the beginning wanted this stove so it was an easy choice for him, but for me it just came down to the dollar. It wasn't worth the extra cost to have enamel or a Jotul stove. I figure I am too early on in the process to start busting the budget already! That will come later...HAHA!!!!

I will keep everyone posted on the progress. We will hopefully be having some work parties soon so stay tuned for my begging for free labor! =) We will need help with painting, landscaping, pouring the concrete for the garage floor and driveway/sidewalk and all sorts of other fun stuff!