Architect Meeting

Last week we had our meeting with our architect, Roger, to come up with plans for our new home! We are so excited to be at this stage of the process. I had a really big binder full of ideas and pictures of what our dream house might look like. I feel like he got a really good idea of the look and style we are going for. We could have some rough drawings of our plans by the end of this week! I can’t wait to see them!!

Here are a few pictures that were in my binder:

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Planning phase has officially started!

Well here we go… we are officially building a house now! Eeeek! The first step was to apply for the construction loan which turned out to be pretty easy. We had already paid off our land completely from when we sold our former house so we are using that as a down payment. When you build on your own land you usually have to put close to 20-25% down so that can be a big problem. We had our first meeting with UbuildIt on Friday to sign the contract and get our first binder. It is basically a big binder of all the steps we need to take care of in order to get to the construction phase. I can already tell the planning phase is going to be a beating but hopefully if we put the hard work in now the construction will go smoothly. So now that we are squared away there the next step is to get with the architect to design our plans! Our Ubuild It consultant is coming to our land tomorrow to do a Site Review where he will take a look at the house site and see what all needs to be done to get ready to build. We are excited and nervous about this journey. I think we will have a lot of fun along the way though!

We also designed our workshop which will get built at the same time as our house. Our Ubuild It consultant is already working on getting bids for the building. Shannon is more excited about the workshop then the house, lol!

I will try to keep the blog updated as much as possible while we are building. It will be fun to look back on the blog and see all the steps that we went through. If everything goes well we should have a completed house by the end of the year!

 

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Who Wants Eggs?

We bought a chicken coop back in the fall but we were using it for our kittens. It has been empty for awhile and we finally got some chickens. This little coop holds 4 chickens and it is prefect for getting us started. We want to have a bigger one eventually but we are not exactly sure where we want to put the coop yet so we liked how this one can be moved around. We bought 4 six month old chickens so they wouldn’t need a heat lamp and will start laying eggs immediately. We can’t wait until we get our first egg!

Tristan worked hard getting the coop clean and filling up the chickens food and water.

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Campfire with Family

We decided to have my parents and Nanaw over for a campfire a few weekends ago. The weather was perfect for it! We had so much fun roasting hot dogs and making smores. My mom brought glow sticks which are always a hit!

Logan spent hours that day before they came over collecting firewood with his tractor. He worked so hard!

Tristan got to help build and light the fire and he was so proud of it!

 

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Enjoying Our Nice Mild Winter

This winter has been AMAZING. It has been 60-70 degrees most of the winter so far and we have been enjoying lots of time outside playing! Here are some highlights:

 

Lots of driving around in the jeep!

Tristan practicing with his new bow and arrow he got for Christmas.

 

The boys being adorable on the swing.

Watching Maggie take lots of swims in the creek. She loves the water!

Lots of trampoline time!

Working outside with Daddy and your nice neighbor brings you homemade blueberry muffins! Score!

Exploring in the creek…

The cats enjoying the sunshine too. They are getting so big!S

Swinging in the hammock with mommy!

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