When You Wish Upon a Star

Hi Everyone! This is Michelle/Missy. There are a couple places/items in our home that speak to one of us more than the other. I'm sure Josh will blog about his office...aka Butler Cabin...someday soon. But I just had to share with you the meaning behind this star light. A long time ago I saw this light in a Pottery Barn catalog. Whenever I see something I love in a catalog, I tear out the page and place it in my inspiration binder. Ever since we started our home building journey, I've been waiting for this light to go on sale and it finally did! The Pottery Barn package arrived on our doorstep this week. The light will hang in our mudroom. Every time I enter our home and look up at this light it will remind me of how I thank my lucky stars I met Josh...how the stars aligned on Feb. 14, 2010 allowing us to start building our fun little home and how much I loved my childhood dog...a golden retriever named Star Dog. Once Josh and I get settled we will be welcoming a golden retriever into our lives. We plan to name him Lucky Star Hill!

Little Whirl Wind

Our nephew, Mason, visited our home tonight. He ran around the entire time! Where do they get all that energy? Love him!

TJ Maxx Finds!

Another fun part of our building experience has been purchasing items for our new home. We've spent a lot of time envisioning our future home & how we want it to feel. We believe having a mixture of sentimental, colorful, unique & fun decorative items will make our quaint little house OUR home!
We both love to find bargains...so Michelle spends a lot of her time these days @ TJ Maxx. Her most recent find was this super cute oven mit. Yes, we get excited over oven mits! :) We're not the best cooks...so this oven mit will be more of a decorative feature in our kitchen & will be perfect for taking Papa Murphy's pizzas out of the oven!
Our kitchen colors are going to be black, silver & a big splash of red!

Everything's White!

The sheetrock is in!
This is a picture taken from inside our living room... looking in to the kitchen & dining room.
We love the open feel of this area!

Our New Address Is...

We LOVE our new address!

All the address stones in our current neighborhood only list the street numbers.
Since we're so fond of our new street name, we decided to include it on our stone as well...LOVE IT!

So, our full address will be: 16875 Discovery Lane, Lakeville, MN 55044.

Insulation

They blew the insulation in today. It looks like the pink panther invaded our home! Next comes the sheetrock & siding.

Furniture Shopping

We just returned from a fun-filled day of furniture shopping. We found the perfect master bedroom set, a dining room table & chairs that we love & a hip accent chair for the living room! The American Express card was on fire today! :) Here we are after purchasing our new bedroom set.

We Have a Garage Floor

They poured our garage floor and are installing all the plumbing in the house. We anxiously await the arrival of our master tub!

Electrical...Check!

We had our final electrical walk through yesterday. One more meeting checked off the list!

Our current neighbors, Ashley and James, visited our new home this weekend! We're really going to miss living across the street from them and hope they will visit us often with their little man, Carson!!!

We just had to post this picture of Josh from a couple weeks ago. For those of you who know how much of a "handy man" Josh is...we hope this makes you laugh! We definitely giggle every time we see it!

The Back of the House

Here's a picture of the back of our home. The two windows at the top are in Michelle's office. On the bottom...the window on the left is in the garage, the three windows in the middle are in the living room and the window on the right is above the kitchen sink. We LOVE our large back patio. We wanted a patio where our future golden retriever (Lucky) can run out the back door and jump off the patio on to the lawn. Thus no railings on the back patio. So cool! Right now the patio looks really high off the ground, but they will be bringing in dirt to make it no more than 30 inches above the lawn. Happy jumping Lucky!

Josh Hearts HVAC

What a week!

We now have a roof, shingles, windows, the back patio is in and the front porch is underway!

Bathroom Fun

Our home is moving right along. All the walls are roughed in, the basement floor is poured and the roof is almost complete. We love our master bath tub & Josh can't wait to wash his hair in our walk-in snail shower (as you can see)! Tomorrow we officially sign off on all our interior selections. Then it's on to landscaping!