Young Mommy & Wife

Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:04 AM

Exiting news!! Current mood: excited Category: Life Exciting news! We bought a lot in Lily lake (on the same road that I grew up on)!! We signed the papers accepting the offer yesterday! I'm really excited about it. Probably more excited than I should be. I'm always getting my hopes up and then something comes along to destroy them. It's still contingent on financing and a perc test, but the financing for the lot won't be a problem and the rest of the houses in the area tested for a septic, so hopefully ours will too!! The lot is small but it's perfect for what we want and we'll be able to build a NEW house, lol, ours now was built in the 1800's! All I want is a new house. We looked at the model homes again yesterday too and know which one we'd go with! It's a fairly small house but oh so cute, and bigger than the one we have now! I really like it. It's a 2 bedroom, 1 bath loft. But we're going to build it above a garage/finished basement and plan on putting another bedroom in the basement along with a play room. And there is another room in the loft that we have no idea what we'd put in it, so it'll kind of be like a 4 bedroom! It's cool too b/c we would get to pick out so many things that we wanted in the house. Like the carpet, counter tops, siding, roof shingle color, etc and we can move the floor plan around any way that we want. Oh I'm way too excited, I just hope we can get a construction loan, or we'll be out of luck. We plan on keeping our duplex too and renting both sides out since we might be able to make a profit each month and the market is in no condition to sell just yet. We might already have someone who'd be interested in renting out our side! Which means that we'd be living with the in-laws for a few months to save money and put in towards our house! Ahh! I love them and they have an awesome house, but it would definitely be interesting after living on our own for so many years. IF all goes according to plan (and that's a BIG IF!), Jason thinks we could be moved into our new house be the end of July/ or August! I hope so! I want to celebrate Venily's first birthday in a new house!!!!!!!!! Here's a pic of the floor plan and finished house. We might move a few things around on the floor plan and the house would be a different color and wouldn't have the top windows, but you get the idea. We're also not sure if we'd put a deck in the front or just off the back.(WOW, photobucket has cool editing things now, LOL- too bad I couldn't just resize pictures, it's not working!)