Golf in January

On Saturday Rick and I decided we needed to do some exploring around our new stomping grounds. First we had to check out the home. The foundation is done and ready for framing.
We know where the Stansbury Park Clubhouse, Swimming Pool, Tennis Courts and Golf Course are because we drive past them to get to our new home. As Maddy and Marissa pointed out, Of course I still have a swimming pool within walking distance of my home.

We decided to find the Miller Motor Sports Park. We had been there once in 2007 for the Le Mans race and were not impressed so we thought we would see if they had upgraded. Yeah, not so much.

Then we went a mile up to road to the Deseret Peak Complex. That place has everything including Chariot Races on Saturday afternoons! Seriously! Rick promised I could go to them but I can't remember what I have to do to full fill my side. Crap!
Next we visited the Phillips 66 on Main Street in Tooele. They have very clean bathrooms unlike the Mavrick at the entrance to Stansbury Park. PLEASE - DO NOT STOP THERE! They are horrible. Just keep on driving the mile to our home and if you don't want to go in my home, stop at the Flying J in Lake Point. Their's aren't too bad either.
So anyway, we had our drinks, my orange cream icee cause it isn't carbonated! And we were off to find all the golf courses in Tooele.
We went to the Oquirrh Hills Golf Course which is near the mountain. They have a lovely driving range. We also drove part way up Middle Canyon. I saw some critters up on the edge of the hill. They looked like Ostriches. I am going to find out.
Then we found The Links at Overlake. That place was a crack up. Seriously, you drive on gravel roads to get there! This is the GOOD road. The place was as flat as could be. The funniest part of it all was that the parking lot was half full of pick-up trucks and it was snowing! That's right ~ there were tons of people out playing on January 3oth with flurries flying all around them.
I knew that Tooele would be hard to live in but seriously!

So it begins

Wednesday night after work, I picked up Maddy who is visiting and Marissa was willing to grace us also with her presence. This is what we went to go see...

New Home

Things appear to be well under way for our new home. Our builder submitted for permits on Sept 22nd. It takes about 4 weeks to get them and then they can start digging. Once the foundation and footing is done, it is almost exactly 120 days until the home is done. The expected date right now is mid-April. We will be meeting with our general contractor once they have permits and we should have an even better idea of the date.

I thought some of you might like to see what we are building.

Our home will look like the above photo except our pillars on the porch will be wood, not stucco. The main stucco of our house will be the light stucco around the windows in this photo. Our front door and the vent will be "Evening Blue". It isn't navy but it isn't royal. I will see if I can get a sample.
The stucco around the windows and other accent points will be forest green just like the garage door in the above photo. Our garage door will be the same as in the first photo...I think..we picked "almond".

This is the basic floor plan. We made a few tweaks here and there but not too many.

On the main floor, we will be adding a picture wall between the "dining room" and the living room. Not where they show the sample wall but more towards the front of the house. This is to break up the football field feeling but still keep it open. Above is a sample of the picture wall from a different floor plan. We are also adding a Powder Room aka Toilet and Sink on the main floor where the "storage" closet would normally be. We also added the peninsula in the kitchen. We thought about an island but it just didn't work so this gives us the same amount of extra space.
We chose light oak for our cabinets, white for our appliances and a light color for the counters. We like it bright! This way I can paint the walls any colors I want too. We will have the same cabinets, counters, carpet and vinyl throughout the entire house. Below is a sample of the counter top.
Then we have upstairs~
Check out my master closet!! The master bedroom is HUGE too. I seriously don't have enough furniture for this house.

We made several changes in the Master Bathroom. These include...

A Garden Tub

A separate showerA Second Vanity
A window between the vanities
and believe it or not, vinyl is not standard in the master bath, only by the commode SO we upgraded to that as well. Carpet in the bathroom...GROSS!
We also decided to move the laundry room upstairs! We figure that other than kitchen towels everything is upstairs that we wash so why not have it all up there all the time. This replaces the storage upstairs. Because of this though we will have a big mud room between the garage and kitchen. I am SO excited for this. This is one feature I have always wanted to have in a home.

I know we have replaced a lot of our storage with other things but we will have a huge crawl space below the house. The next door neighbor says that his is 8.5 feet.
We are on lot 178 with the church behind us. We met our neighbors to the east lot 179 on Saturday and they seem really nice. They have at least 2 little girls, one who is 5 and one who turned 3 this weekend. I am sure we will meet our other neighbors as we venture out to watch our house be built!