It's Official!

For the last 6 months or so we have been working on a way to build a home. Chris has grown up in a "construction" family and so the thought of buying instead of building a home doesn't sit well with him. But trying to build, or buy for that matter, in such an unstable economy has tested our faith several times. After many houseplans, lots, appraisals, bank interviews, lots of prayers and even more waiting we are OFFICIALLY building our own home.

I am actually quite terrified of the whole process. Chris has signed himself up to do quite a bit of the work himself. Besides doing the engineering, he is doing all the excavation and utilities, framing, roofing, soffit/facia, stone work, wood flooring, finish carpentry, painting, and possibly some of the flat work. I absolutely know he is capable but he has to accomplish all this within 6 months while working a 40 hour work week at his day job, being a father to 3 children, fulfilling a church calling AND trying to keep his wife sane! I definitly think we will need your prayers!

The spot of our future home.


After a lot of consideration we finally settled on this lot. It is only a third acre which is smaller than Chris wanted (but exactly what I wanted...who wants to live on an acre of weeds...a third acre I can manage...but this is coming from a city girl). What is special for Chris is that this property we bought from his Grandpa (we live in the "DeMille subdivision" which is kind of cool). Chris used to move sprinklers on this land when he was a little boy so it holds a lot of memories for him when he would spend the summers living with his Grandpa. Now we get to build our home on it. The house in the background is his sisters.