We did finally put our money where our mouth is and sign a contract with a builder. Last weekend we *gulp* made the final adjustments to the contract and off we go! Or at least, we hope…they did give us a completion date of Sept 30 (in the contract), so hopefully it will be at least sometime around then. LOL For some reason I am more nervous having a house built this time around. This is our THIRD yes third house that we are building…one in Denver, and the one we’re in here now. I think we’re build-aholics. Or at least, move-aholics.

Anyway. It is going to be HARD to give up our backyard here…we have 3/4 of an acre, back to a wooded creek, lots of pretty trees in the backyard, etc. Our current lot is remarkably similar in some ways…it also backs to a creek with some trees. However, it’s a wider shorter lot, and the creek is further up towards the house, so we’ll have quite a bit less usable backyard. Maybe half as much, if we’re lucky. Oh well…we really don’t USE all of the yard we have now, it just looks pretty and gives us privacy, which we should also have at the new house, so… But I think the dogs will miss it here.

So, if you’re interested, we are building this house: House Plan with a few rather minor changes. And I’m hoping, really hoping, that just maybe we can stay in this one for a while. And in the meantime, we are frantically trying to get our current house ready to put on the market. Stupid dogs…everything we have to fix in the house is their fault! LOL Grumble grumble.