House Update- woooohoooo!

The building process is not as fun as I had expected.  The waiting sucks, to put it mildly :) I have not patience.  It feels like we are on a roller coaster ride with lots of ups and downs and we JUST started!  When we started this way back in May, when we put the house of for sale and sold it, Dave and I told each other that we would not let the house stuff get between us and that we would not let it get us down.  We have been good about that.  Dave picks me up when I am down and that makes this process easier. 

After what seemed like eternity to get the permits, we finally got them, on Leah's b-day.  THEN, we were waiting on something else, i dont even remember what it was.  THEN, we had some changes with our contractor.  We loved him for day one and for some personal issues, which I will not be discussing, our builder could not do this anymore.  After some talk with him we feel blessed that his brother is taking over.  We love Justin and I am grateful he was part of our lives this year.  He is a great GREAT guy!  It was our pleasure to have done business with him.  His brother, Dave (side note: do not name your child Dave, EVER!  its over used!) is moving things along wonderfully and we feel blessed with the unwanted change, but can see God's hand through this time. 

SO, we have been digging for two weeks.  Really it has just been three days, in a two week period.  We had to wait on some survey on the lot.  Bountiful is not an easy city to build on, but it will be SO worth it in the end. 

This first photo is from the front east corner of the lot.  This is a beautiful sight to us!!! :) 

This second photo is from about halfway down on the south side of the lot.  You can see how deep it drops down.  VERY EXCITING to us!!!

The house will be a rambler style home.  The main floor will be where most of the living is done.  There will be a walk-out basement.  The yard is quite large, but it has a big incline before the flat part.  Dave has some big plans for the yard, for example, making sure the kids can snowboard down the hill in the winter.  I say, go for it!

We have yet to make decision on the paint color, but I think we have everything else pretty much figured out.  Dave is not picky and is pretty much leaving it up to me to pick things out.  We are still a ways away from having to finalize those decisions, but I am SO looking forward to it!!!

We pray for no major storms for this next week, after that I think we will be in the clear.  Our builder says we will be in no later than February 15, 2012.  I know that sounds "optimistic" to some, but now that the ball is rolling we should have no problems getting there.  Its starting that is the hard part. 

We cant believe this is really happening!!!! WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!