Our house...soon to be our home.

Many of you have been asking how our house is going! We are in the process of building right now with C&M Builders and excited to get into our house in June. We had been looking for a couple of years at moving outside of Eau Claire and closer to Alan's work. Not only were we hoping to cut down on Alan's commute, but we were enticed by the idea of having more land and space and trying our hand at gardening and possibly a few small animals. In the end, we found our dream land, but it was 80 acres and WAY too expensive. We were still hoping to find something outside of EC and started looking at lots. We stumbled across 1.6 acres in a small subdivision 5 miles outside of the city and asked ourselves, "why is this still available"?! It's out of town, in a small neighborhood, and has multiple families that we know in it (both from our church and school). The one downside? I can't ever have my chickens:) But, we are still pleased with our decision and very much looking forward to joining our neighbors this early summer.


 My whole motto while looking at existing homes and planning a house to build has been to  "SIMPLIFY".   I don't like having unused spaces and rooms in a house that just fill up with more stuff. In fact, I hate stuff. All I wanted was a simple, two story, with 4 bedrooms on the second floor, on a decent piece of land, south of town, a double vanity for us and the kids, open concept, a farmhouse kitchen sink, and a partridge in a pear tree. Okay, so maybe our wish list was a little long. After months of searching, we realized it just didn't exist. So, here we are, building a practical and simple home for our family of six.

Foundation, septic, well, and geothermal all went in around October.

Missy and Jesse came to visit in October and were able to 

see some of the progress before date night!

Jesse of course had to climb in the house!

I took a quick trip out there with the kids one day after school when

it was unseasonably warm. All I remember thinking is, "if we stay too long, these kids are going to be covered in dirt:)

Front porch

Garage

One of the two basement window wells

Basement will remain unfinished for a few years

I believe these are called "trusses", right?!

Garage and basement floors!

The house was capped for a bit until after the New Year.

Walls, walls, and more walls!

It must be cold out now!

Living room window

A second floor in progress!

We love that our master bedroom and living room

face nothing!

It's looking like a real house!

I just thought this was a funny picture.

Front bedroom windows

Our roof has shingles!!!