We have been piered!

Our site scrape was done today and also these little grey holes appeared ;)

Our SS called me to let us know we had piers, and to introduce himself. He sounds very nice. I hope this next part goes smoothly. It seriously has been a long time waiting for this stage and clumps of concrete make me happy today :)

Hampton lights

I have my 3 beautiful Hampton Style pendant lights ready for over our island bench in the kitchen.
Thanks A-M (http://www.thehousethata-mbuilt.com).
Unfortunately she no longer has her online lighting shop.
I'm glad I didn't wait till later to buy them!

Here they are in A-M's old home :)

IKEA

My lovely friend picked up 4 white IKEA bar stools for me to go under the island bench in the kitchen. The boys helped me assemble one last night to make sure the height was right.
They are going to look nice in our new home, I will have to get some cute cushions for them too :)
Thats one thing ticked off my list from IKEA. I know we will be spending a bit more time there soon!

Here they are in a kitchen very similar to what ours will be.

change of splash-back :)

I had a call from our colours lady yesterday. Informing us that we are getting an upgrade on our air conditioning and dishwasher :)

Also that the white colour we'd chosen for the glass splash-back is discontinued so I needed to go to the colour studio today to try to match a similar white to the one we had picked.

This was actually a blessing as I was really worried about the white we'd chosen and I regretted not choosing white subway tiles instead of the glass. So today I was able to change it over and now I'm so excited to be getting the white subway tile splash-back that I really wanted. The only thing is that the tiles are a bit longer than I liked, but I think it's still going to look fab :)

It will look something like this...

we've been pegged :)

Our CLO told me we were moved into the construction phase prior to the Christmas break and our file was currently with their Production Estimating team to complete the ordering process!

So on the 15th January we finally saw a few yellow pegs appear on our lot. 

Still no more progress other than that as of yet :(

Land

Our stage was lodged with the LPI on 1.10.13...
and now it's REGISTERED!!!!
Yay, can't wait for things to start happening now.
MJH have had 7 months to have the plans ready for council but as of last week they are not :(
I hope our CLO makes ours a priority and gets them submitted asap!
I was really hoping for a slab before Christmas, but that looks like it's not going to happen :(
But i'm glad it's finally getting closer!!!

Green Stuff

I just retuned from a drive to our lot. We have green stuff over the mud! I think it's called spray grass. Not too sure but it looks pretty cool. I guess it's a quick way to grow grass. Better than all that mud!

I also grabbed a map of all the future MJH designs which will be built around us. It's nice to see that we have three smaller houses to our right and then another 'Nova'. Not sure whats on our left. It's a bigger block so I'm hoping it's not going to be a double-storey, guess I'll have to wait and see.

Everything is coming along quickly now and it might only be 3 or so more months and we might get to see something happening for us! Dare I say we might even have more than a slab by Christmas :) Hope council doesn't hold things up.

I took the camera this time and got a few shots of the green stuff and nature strip :)

The Green Stuff (aka Spray Grass)

Looking to our left (East)

Looking to our right (West)

Our block (Looking North)

We have a nature-strip!