It's Looking MORE Like OUR House!

I drove by our soon-to-be new house today, I hadn't been in a week or so and had heard the brick and stone were being put on. Here it is!!!

Again, I took a photo with my phone so not the best quality. But you get the picture :)  It's getting more exciting the further along it gets!! I can't wait till it's really OURS!

New House Update- a Roof!

The house is coming along & changing so quickly. It's really started to sink in this will be OUR home. I drove by our old house the other day after taking Keira to preschool. It already didn't seem like our old place, like we were never there. SO strange!!! But I've realized it's the family you are with that makes your house a "home" so no matter where we are, as long as I have my husband and girls, and the dog of course, all is well! We are getting so excited to move in!

We still have a few hurdles to overcome though and need all the prayers we can get. My husband was laid off from his job at the end of April. But thank the Lord he had begun looking a few weeks prior, and he got a new job the same day!! He was laid off via conference call around 3:30pm, then got a phone call from the recruiter he was hired for the new job at 5:30! Crazy how that works out. I know God definitely had a hand in this-my mom volunteers at her church pulling job listings from the web and and putting them together for people out of work. While volunteering one day she came upon this job listing and thought it would be perfect for Kevin since it was in his field of sales. She passed along the information to us and Kevin submitted his resume. A few weeks and 2 interviews later, he was hired! It couldn't not have come at a better time. Obviously it's not the best time to start a new job when applying for a home loan. We wouldn't have had a chance at all had he not already had a job hunt going. Now we are just hoping & praying & waiting to see if everything works out. A new job is not what the loan officers want to see!! He starts the new job this Monday. I know he is anxious to get going!

Ok enough about that, here are a few photos taken last week:

Front view

Side view

Back view

Then Kevin went by a few days ago and the cedar was put in on the front of the house and the brick delivered!

Yea!!! My friend and soon-to-be neighbor a few doors down told me they started bricking the other day. Can't wait to go see it this weekend!

House update: What a Difference a Week Makes!

A quick house update- we closed on the sale of our old home on April 29th. Everything went smoothly thank goodness! That afternoon we rode out to check on the new house. The lumber had just been delivered the Saturday before and here it was 5 days later and this is what we saw!

WOW!!!  I am thinking that closing the end of June may actually happen. That is if everything else on our end works out....praying for that.  Will post more about that later! Let's just say it has been a very stressful week. We need all the prayers we can get!!  Hope to have more postiive news and will update more this weekend!!

We've Got Progress!

While it seems not much has been going on in the new home front, it looks like things will be picking up quickly. I got a call yesterday from our builder to let us know that the foundation has been poured! Yeah for progress! I drove by yesterday afternoon to check it out myself.

Follow the little concrete path they made and up at the top is the foundation for our home! A little hard to see, but it's there :)

They hope to have the lumber by the end of the week. From what I have seen with a few other houses, once the lumber is delivered, the house is framed in a matter of a couple days. God willing of course! It is April after all.

New House-Getting Started!

Finally!!! We have been patiently awaiting this day to arrive, the builder has started on our new house! With our other home on it's way to being sold, it's nice to see we really will have some place to live, eventually. Hubby drove by there Friday and they had started the plumbing. Not much to look at but for us it's definitely a start!

Our *very hopeful* close date is June 30th, however we are realistic this is probably not going to happen. They have got a lot of work to do!

Hope to post pictures of a little more substance very soon :)