It is official! We decided to go ahead and start building our house. We met with our relator this morning to sign the papers and pick out our carpet, tile, colors, etc. It was a lot of fun. We decided to go with the floor plan we liked most...the Kennedy.....feels a lot bigger than the other options.

Here are a couple pics of the subdivision...more to come shortly. Chris (our relator) said that it will take a few weeks for the building to actually start...something about building permits, etc. Our projected completion date is July 15....WE CANNOT WAIT!!!!

^^ Entrance to "Southern Reserve" ^^

^^ Some guy standing by our "sold" sign ^^

^^ This must be his wife?? ^^


^^ This is what our house will look like ^^

Note: We picked a lighter color....and our shutters/door will be black

^^ We finally ordered a canvas print!! ^^

We want to buy one/two more for when we move into the bigger house! We'll see...

^^ Miss Kensie beggin' for food. Poor dog is neglected...... :) ^^

Updates from Austin and Chan's world

• So Austin and I went to look at houses again on Saturday. We love our apartment but is definately getting smaller by the day. We thought it was HUGE when we moved all our stuff in. But now there is NO SPACE FOR ANYTHING ELSE. We went to Southern Reserves neighborhood over on 33rd and found two floor plans that we really like. Our favorite was definately the Kennedy but it is just a little more expensive then the Carnegie. If we can stay on track with our finances, we are going to start building in two months! Perfect timing since the house will be completed before November when our 12 month lease at Nickel Creek is up!! We are both so excited and want to start building RIGHT NOW.... patience will pay off though.

"CARNEGIE"

I like the utility room in this floor plan better. It is 1432 SQ FT. We didn't actually get to see this house completed. We walked through one that was being sheetrocked. The salesman said that the kitchen and dinning room had an open feeling like the Kennedy.

"KENNEDY"

This is actually the floor plan of their model home. It was by far our favorite floor plan with the wide open kitchen and living room. We really liked the split floor plan as well with the master bedroom on the opposite side of the bedrooms/office. It is 1400 SQ FT.

• My parents/sisters are moving this weekend. Lashel bought a house! (which was one of our inspirations for looking at houses on Saturday). Im trying to figure out how I can manage to get the organ up here in the apartment. Maybe in the middle of the living room??? *right, Austin will not go for that one*. You don't realize how much junk you have until you have to start packing it. My mom has three hundred lids to bowls that she had like 20 years ago!!! Just in case she might ever have an ancient bowl like that again. Lashel is off tomorrow so I am sure the packing will be much more organized tomorrow.

• Austin and I BOTH love his new job. :) We were going over the benefit package today. HALLELUJAH we are going to finally have insurance! Which is going to be very handy to help pay for all the prescription and office visits for the 200 sinus infections I've had since we've been married.

• I made a cheesecake today per Austin's request. Next time I will line my oven wrack with foil. The pan I used leaks. :( The apartment filled with smoke and the smoke detectors went off. The cheesecake looks fine. Just hope it doesn't have that smokey flavor (YUCK).

until next time,
chan