A So Cal Girl in the Desert

I was just browsing some of the other blogs whose bloggers live in Maricopa, and I discovered Jim, who is chronicling the building process of his home. So now I'm inspired to do the same thing with our home. The process is so exciting (the building, not the chronicling). Even though our home has been delayed several times and will probably be delayed even more, I'm still happy and optimistic...looking forward to the day we can move in!

Right now, we're living in an apartment in Chandler. It's working out great so far, but we're still anxious to get into our new place. It looks like it will be a while. Let me bring you up to date...

Here's our lot the day we picked it and put down our deposit in October 2004...



Here is a picture taken in April of 2005, just before pouring the foundation...



Here's our home framed with most of the windows in. It was so exciting to see it like this for the first time. This was taken in June.



This is a picture of the framing of our family room taken on the same day...



We took this picture of the back of our house last week. Disappointing because very little progress has been made in the last six weeks. We just have to be patient.



Even though it's hard to wait, we have to think how lucky we are to be building a new home and to be able to see it as it goes through the building process. Such an exciting time in our lives!