In January we started to work with Randy, our architect, to create our dream home. We took one of his floor plans and then added our twist to it. We walked through a friend of Mylissa's home and loved everything about her home. So we based our floor plan on her house and our friend's Layne and Tiff. As we worked with Randy, we ended up pushing out " this wall a little bit and that wall a little bit" and before we knew it we had a really big house. It's a little over 5,600 square feet! It took several months working with Randy to tweak our plans to get them just right (plus he was a little slow at times). But overall we really enjoyed working with him. Once we got the final plans back in May, we started working with a couple of contractors to get some bids. Jen and Michael had Chris T build their house and they loved him. So he was the one I really wanted. Matt asked around town and got another bid from a local contractor. Luckily his bid came in a lot higher so we met with Chris in August and told him we wanted him to be our contractor!
At the end of August we finalized our loan and started the building process. Chris is the one in the red hat. This was the first meeting to discuss where to dig our plan and map things out. Chris cleared the area with his little skidster.
On September 2, the excavator showed up and stared digging our hole!!! It took them a few days to dig the entire hole. It looks massive!
We went out to the lot at least once a day, sometimes a couple of times to watch them dig the hole. Tanner loved watching the digger. The boys love to play in the big mounds of dirt. Tanner keeps right up with them and tags along.
I've been taking Tanner on bike rides every day and we bike out to the lot to see if anyone is working at the lot. Tanner loves his bike seat. One time we saw a big snake in the road so every time we go he talks about the snake.
Our hole is finally dug!
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