The beginning........

Well, as many of you know, we have been living in our garage/townhouse for about two and a half years. Well, needless to say, we have reached our limit in staying in this small house. So, in the middle of March, Holly and I decided to start the process of building our big house.

Needless to say the process has been more involved and timely than we had anticipated. The bank always needs more paper work, and a few more days to get to the next step. So, after talking to our bank guy, it looks like our construction loan will be 100% ours within the next ten days or so.

So, what have we been doing while our loan is going through? Lots of research, lots of looking at blueprints, and finalizing some "finishing work." We also hired a couple of good old boys to dig the hole and pour the concrete for our foundation. My parents somehow played a cruel joke on us and gave us some land that is setting on a huge rock. So, the excavaters have been using our hard earned money to hammer through the rock and make us a hole deep enough for our foundation. The rest of the boys are coming out to put the forms up for the foundation tomorow, and the bug guy coming by Wednesday morning to pretreat the foundation for bugs, and the actual pouring of concrete Wednesday morning.

It's been an interesting dynamic between Holly and me to see who is going to take care of what aspect of the construction. It seems like most of my time is spent on making phone calls and getting the bids for the actual construction of the house, and her time is spent researching and gathering ideas for the finish work. Just yesterday, she figured out that tiling the kitchen countertops will give us an interesting look without hitting the pocketbook to hard. So it's been an interesting process thus far.

More to come after they pour the foundation.