broken ground

Finally!

Since we officially broke ground yesterday, I can finally tell you guys...

We're building a house!

It's been in the works for a while now, and I just didn't want to jinx it by telling everybody about it before things actually get started.  It seems like Murphy's Law hits a lot when dealing with real estate.  You know, Murphy's Law, what can go wrong will go wrong.

After months of searching, offers that fell through, and just no luck, we decided on building.

The perfect lot in the perfect location fell into our laps at the perfect time.

We were able to pick out a house plan that we looooove and found a builder who is great.

We can't help but feel that God helped us out and pointed us in this direction.

We had made a couple offers on a couple different houses and they just kept falling through.  We really got our feelings hurt a couple times when we were pretty sure we had found the perfect house and then it didn't work.  

We probably looked at 20-30 houses and just didn't like any of them enough.

It was getting frustrating.

But like I said, it all worked out.

And to top it all off, after we decided on the lot we found out that we will receive a 7-year tax abatement for building in this particular area.  

7 years tax free!

That's around $25,000 dollars we'll save!

Somebody upstairs was watching out for us.

Progress has seemed slow because we've had to wait on the city to approve our house plans, but our builders are also building the house next door so we've had something to look at while waiting for our house to begin.

I still obsessive-compulsively drive out to our lot to see if something has started.

And yesterday, it had...

Might not seem like a big deal to other people, but that's our hole right there.
Our hole, where OUR house is going to be.


We told Haven that our house was going to be built there and she said, 
"Do we need a ladder to get down there?"
Oh, sweet child.


Wanna see the house we picked?

 I know what you're asking yourself, and the answer is:  
Yes, it seriously is that cute.


I think we should get the white picket fence. Don't you?