floor plan

I tried posting the floor plan for our house a few days ago but it wasn't working, so incase you can't get these photos bigger, here is a link to the floor plan. That isn't our address or even our housing development, I just googled the name of our floor plan and that was the first link that I got. Don't want to be giving you guys too much personal info on a public blog!

So here is the first floor. It's pretty self explanatory-dining room, kitchen, family room (for now at least that is where our tv will go), master suite, powder room laundry.

The second floor. For now the gameroom will be a big playroom for Emma. Overtime we anticipate that we'll move the tv up there, or atleast put a tv up there. It's large enough that in the future we could put air hockey/ping pong/foosball or something like that up there too. We'll see what we want to do with that area as Emma gets older. For now I'm thinking it will have a little table for Emma to sit at, a play kitchen (I'm hoping to get her one for her birthday!) all her other toys, an easel (when she's a little older probably) and stuff like that. My piano will also go up there, probably along the wall between Bedroom 4 and the Gameroom. 

For the time being this is our plan for the rest of the upstairs: Bedroom 2 = guest bedroom. Chris's little sister is going to come stay with us for a while and help us move/get settled so that will be her room at first. Bedroom 3 will be Chris's office (and if room 2 & 4 aren't enough for guests we can probably fit an air mattress in there too). Bedroom 4 is my craft room and if we have multiple guests at a time it will have room for an air mattress. Bedroom 5 is Emma's room. 

Then you've got the two bathrooms upstairs plus the linen closet. 

This is the exterior color package for the house:

And the interior color package:

The tile goes in the entryway/laundry area, the kitchen and the bathrooms. Carpet goes everywhere else. I hope that in the not too distant future we'll rip the carpet out of the dining room and put tile in there. I hate the idea of a carpeted dining room with kids. I know how much pasta/rice/whatever I sweep and mop off our dining room floor right now and can't imagine how bad it will be to be picking it all up and then vacuuming that room. Yikes.

Once I upload them to my computer I'll post some photos from the model home that show what the house looks like on the inside.

We were just at our house a few days ago and the drywall was all up inside and the walls had been texturized. There is a front door and a backdoor (although they lack doorknobs right now)! I didn't take a single picture while we were there because this time we took Emma with us and I was watching her the whole time to make sure she didn't try to climb up the stairs and get a million splinters and that she didn't find any random nails on the ground. It was the first time we took Emma to the house and she loved walking around and seeing what each room was like. She was a little concerned by how "messy" the tubs were... they had been full of crap from rain before the roof had been put on and she hates messes.

We've chatted with the superintendent that is over our house and he says that the house is still on schedule and that from their end it will be ready for us to close on April 27th. That's only 40 days away! We're ordering a few new appliances that are supposed to be delivered to the house May 2nd, and are looking to move in sometime the week of May 3-9. It's getting way close and there is so much to be done. We're trying to get rid of stuff that we don't use/need and so far have been able to sell a few things on Craigslist, give things away to people in our ward, and donate a bunch!