Designer's Challenge

Hum ... Remember this--our future neighborhood in Houston? Not a single house in sight when we took this picture on May 7.

Well, look what has been going on over there in the last month. We took this picture of our new stomping grounds on June 2.
Not bad, eh? Thanks to dry weather and the long hours of our hard-working friends from south of the border (and their refusal to be scared off by a mere 105 degree heat index), things are progressing really quickly in our new area. They are scheduled to start on our house around June 16. If the weather gods smile upon us all summer, we could be into our house by mid-September. (I'm skeptical, but Adam is being the optimist about this ... Kind of a role reversal for us, really!)

We made our way to Houston once again this weekend not just to take the above photo to entertain all of you, but also to do the really fun part of buying a new house: picking out all the new stuff! Our builder has a massive design center with hundreds and hundreds of things to choose from--a veritable garden of expensive forbidden fruit! We managed to make it out of there without too much damage done. In fact, we picked everything out in half the time it normally takes people since we were pretty determined not to spend money upgrading stuff that we felt could wait (carpet, paint, fixtures) and only indulged ourselves in a few areas (wood floors, maple cabinetry, and of course, plasma TV wiring for the gigantic set Adam intends to buy when he gets some money.)

Here's Adam entering the very welcoming New Home Center: Here's a little preview of the stuff we picked out:
Can't wait to see what it all looks like in a few months!