Our new "home"

People probably already think we are crazy....so let's just add to it by doing this.....

Yep...this, folks, is our new home. It is currently set up in our backyard but only until July 7th....when we will drive it off our land and to Splitrock Park, where we will live until our new house is finished. When will our new house be finished you ask?!?!? Well......the hope is November 1st.....closing on the lot has been pushed back another week. We hope we can stay on track to break ground next Monday, but we will have to ok it with the lot owner, we don't perceive him saying no, but we will get permission to start before closing first. We are trying to not get impatient and trust that the Lord has a plan and to remember that His timing is always better than ours.

Many have asked....why didn't you have a plan in place before you put your house on the market?!?!  We did have a plan in place...to buy another chunk of land and build again. Well nothing came up and we looked and looked. Our kids were getting mad that we were looking at places further away and a longer commute to school. So we came up with our "5 year" plan.

Mikayla graduates in 2018, Colby in 2021 and Keara in 2022.  So we have exactly 5 years left in Gtown before all our kiddos are done with school. Once they are graduated and off to college, we can start looking for land anywhere.  So who knows where we may end up 5 years from now. And we are calling that our "final/permanent" home. It will be the last house we build and it will be where we grow old together at. And maybe, just maybe, it will be a log cabin in the black hills of South Dakota!!! I don't know....but I'm trusting the Lord for my future.

So for the next several months we will be living in a camper, spending tons of time at our new house building it and growing closer together as a family in the process. Adventures.....that is the only way to look at it.....this is an adventure that one day we will look back on and laugh about it. And it will be a story that our kids can tell their kids one day.

I'm scared, I'm excited and probably every emotion know to man.....BUT.....at the end of this crazy adventure is the best reward EVER.....a new home to create new memories with my kids and my husband.  Where the walls will forever whisper our story.....just as they will in the house we have spent the past 11 years in.  Our story is forever weaved in the house on 480th Ave.

Our bedroom

                             

the kids' bedroom area

the kitchen/dining room

the bathroom

Life is about to take a turn and one that we are stepping out in faith with and trusting that the Lord has a great plan in store for us.  We will see!  Let the adventure begin!

In His service,

Cathi