why don't we just build!

first of all, welcome to my our blog! we thought this would be a great way to keep everyone connected on the progress of our new home! let me just give you a quick rundown of events that led up to this point in time.

2012
august- october
kurt and i had been thinking about buying a new home. we knew we wanted to be in oldham county, but not far from the jefferson county line. we searched realtor websites high and low, every night and every day. we looked and looked until we found a listing for a "built to suit" home in the development of ash landing.  kurt went out to the subdivison, which happened to be 4 miles from our current home to check it out. the house was great, a little smaller than what we were looking for, but overall beautiful. kurt and i discussed it and we looked at each other and said, "why don't we just build!" we decided to call the developer of the subdivision and he put us in touch with the builder.

november 2
we met the builder out at the subdivision, which happened to be on the same day our furnace went out in our current home! ugh, what timing!! we found out the builder had built several homes in the current subdivision, including his daughters. we met a few people that lived in the neighborhood and they were all very friendly and were still talking to the builder (that's a good thing!).  we found out the neighborhood are families around our age with young children. they have block parties, potlucks, their children play together, and they have all become friends.  our dream is to raise jack in a place where he could have friends close by.  ash landing was exactly what we were looking for and we were thrilled! we decided on a lot...lot #6 was going to be our future home.

november 9
we met with the drafter and came up with the most beautiful (in our eye's of course) floorplan we had ever seen. it took several weeks to tweak it, but finally in the middle of december, the big blueprints were in hand and we were ready to start digging!