Today the garage went up and we also have a chimney now! The masons did it in one day! Looks great! Yesterday we spotaneously went to New Jersey to purchase the vinyl cedar shakes for the house. We found a GREAT deal on Craigslist and jumped on it right away! We were only 10 mintues from the beach so we drove over to see that while we were there too. Only got home at 11:00 last night!
We have a very BIG weekend ahead of us! We have some AWESOME friends that offered to help us pour 25 yards of concrete for our basement floor this saturday. They offered their time if we could make it work this weekend! Praise the Lord for good fiends! We need some good sunshine that day!
We are also moving this weekend! AGAIN! Not thrilled about this - just trying to roll with the punches! We had to push our moving day to Sunday and Monday instead of Saturday so it's going to be a LONG weekend! Don't know how much moving I will be able to do this time but I can't wait to get settled in to the new house and get ready for the BABY!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
September 15, 2009
Josh was at the land last night till after 10:00 digging out the footers for the garage in the dark. Today he poured the concrete for the garage footers and had a crane set the support beams on top of the Superior Walls. It looks like rain tomorrow so the masons will not be laying up the garage.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Our Mission Possible
The past few months have been a blur for us as we have been moving at warp speed. Let me try to explain...
We have always been pretty ambitous risk-takers but it came to a dramatic climax this year at the end of March. After much dicussion between us we decided to make an offer on some land with the intention of building a house. Not really believing that the offer would be accepted we didn't set our hopes too high. So imagine our surprise when 2 days later it was accepted and then...surprise 30 minutes later I found out I was pregnant after nearly 2 years of infertility. A miracle in EVERY way! So it was by contract that we put our house up for sale just 2 days later. Amidst the effects of a recession, miraculously in just 2 months we sold our home(the one we built together just 5 years eariler). Amazing! So morning sickness aside we started packing. In July we moved into a house that we intended on renting till our house was finished however a few weeks after we moved in.....it went up for sale and was SOLD! So here we are again....moving. Next week in fact! See I told you it was a blur...and this is the short version!
My husband....being the go-getter in our family, is taking on the task of building this house. Yes you read that correctly! He is doing most of the work himself, contracting all of it and we plan to finish this little endeavor sometime next spring. It has been quite the experience and one that, Lord willing we will hopefully not be repeating!
At 28 weeks pregnant I am dealing with.....well you can probably just imagine!
All things aside - At the end of the day, we just feel happy to be together, no matter where we are! We feel incrediably blessed to be traveling down this road - hard as it may be at times, and it is, I can't imagine life any other way right now! Watch as we try to navigate our way through this incredible journey!
We have always been pretty ambitous risk-takers but it came to a dramatic climax this year at the end of March. After much dicussion between us we decided to make an offer on some land with the intention of building a house. Not really believing that the offer would be accepted we didn't set our hopes too high. So imagine our surprise when 2 days later it was accepted and then...surprise 30 minutes later I found out I was pregnant after nearly 2 years of infertility. A miracle in EVERY way! So it was by contract that we put our house up for sale just 2 days later. Amidst the effects of a recession, miraculously in just 2 months we sold our home(the one we built together just 5 years eariler). Amazing! So morning sickness aside we started packing. In July we moved into a house that we intended on renting till our house was finished however a few weeks after we moved in.....it went up for sale and was SOLD! So here we are again....moving. Next week in fact! See I told you it was a blur...and this is the short version!
My husband....being the go-getter in our family, is taking on the task of building this house. Yes you read that correctly! He is doing most of the work himself, contracting all of it and we plan to finish this little endeavor sometime next spring. It has been quite the experience and one that, Lord willing we will hopefully not be repeating!
At 28 weeks pregnant I am dealing with.....well you can probably just imagine!
All things aside - At the end of the day, we just feel happy to be together, no matter where we are! We feel incrediably blessed to be traveling down this road - hard as it may be at times, and it is, I can't imagine life any other way right now! Watch as we try to navigate our way through this incredible journey!
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