The "Before" Pictures: New House

Lauren and I standing on the edge of the property: A view from the front, you are looking at the garages:
Across the street, there will be a house there, for now this is our view.
Also across the street on the other side:
Our Cul-De-Sac, the only one in the Ivory Development:
Our backyard, there will be a lake and a walkway there soon:

Our backyard, you can kinda see where the lake will go:
The house from the back, this will be the basement:
A view from the back, the walk-out basement:
Another shot from the back (you can see Matt's truck on the street):
Lauren and I standing on what will be the stairway:

From inside the basement, looking out:
We were recently told it will be a daylight basement, meaning all windows will be above ground:
A shot from inside the basement. The walkout:
Our backyard:
(Above) Some pictures of the house and surrounding area, as it is now.

If any of you didn't know it, Mathew and I are building a new house. Our dream house and we are both tickled to death. We love our house on Wakefield Way, and we absolutely love our neighbors...but we need something just a little bit bigger and something a little closer to where we work. It wasn't something we set out to do, it just sort of happened. So, after nearly 10 years..it is on to bigger and better things. Let me bring you up to speed with the timeline;

We started looking at houses in January.

We picked our lot on 4/3/08.

We picked out all of our colors and options on 5/6/08.

We put 8% down on 5/19/08.

The hole was dug on 8/5/08.

Foundation poured 8/7/08.