Building a Home

As many people know...we are building a house! What most people don't know is that we started this journey a couple years ago.

Dave took a job in Houston (51 minutes from our home) back in 2013. We immediately considered moving to a small town between our current one and the city. But it didn't sit right and we wanted to wait until we were sure this company would be the place Dave planted his flag. Well, suffice it to say, it's planted. Firmly.

We looked periodically at homes for sale, but in the town we are moving to, there are few homes that fall into our median income price range. They are either multi million dollar ranches or small homes on very little land in dire need of repair. Dave doesn't have time for dire repairs, if ya know what I mean.

And, the way that we have structured our lifestyle revolves around our church community. They are our people, wherever the Lord has us, those are the folks we "do life" with. And our church was still in our current small town. So we stayed put and the pops racked up miles on the Camry.

Then the Lord called us to the city of Hempstead and to Hempstead Bible Fellowship. And so we started actively looking for a home there.

This lead us back to the original issue of no homes really matching our needs and income level. So we decided to build one. We found a sweet little piece of land, contacted a builder and now...7 months later...we are almost there.

The foundation is in, the utilities are being put in and the road is starting to take form. In other news...if you ever decide to build a home, do it on a piece of IMPROVED property...ours was unimproved and mercy...it's been a road to say the least.

BUT, they tell us that in just over a month we will be ready to move in! We are so excited to finally be close to being in our new home, and being close to our new family at HBF!

Anyway, the whole reason I started this post was just to add pictures of the babies. Cause they are the cutest and who are we kidding....everyone loves the blogs with pictures best. :-)

It's a GIANT SANDBOX, MOM!!!!!

They love mud.

Brush piles and no shoes. This is the life.

Forget the shoes. Let's do this barefoot.