Kevin and Shannon
Sept 5th 2009
Finally I have had some time to get the blog started. It seems like this summer has flown by! After Kevin and I got back from our vacation in Napa Valley we closed on our property. Part of our contract included that we would drill the well before we closed on the property. We wanted to make sure that we would have water before we actually made the purchase. After asking around in the neighborhood we realized that most of our neighbors had to drill at least 700 feet and that only produced about 2 gallons per minute. Two gallons per minute is not that great and we really couldn't afford to drill 800 or so feet. The two days it took to drill the well were long and prayerful. To our suprise we hit water at 500 feet and it was coming at 10 gallons per minute! That is more water that any other house in the subdivision. The Lord really answered our prayers! Now we are the proud new owners of 1.25 acres that we are very quickly turning into a house. The property was officially ours on Aug 14, 2009. I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have that part of the process over with!
The weekend we closed on the property we started clearing the land. Since Kevin and I have always rented our home it feels nice to own something. We actually helped (as much as we could) to clear the property. Some of our dear friends from church offered to help us cut down some trees. We spent a whole Sunday cutting, chopping, and dragging. Kevin and Ryan actually did most of the work, but Sarah and I managed to provide lunch. As fearful as I was, Kevin managed to use a chain saw and did a great job. It wasn't that I didn't think he could do it I just wanted him to keep both legs so he could walk into the new house. (Those of you who know me know how much I worry :) When big trees were falling or I got nervous I just closed my eyes. We managed to make it out with sore muscles and property ready for a foundation.
A week after the clearing was finished we had footers and as of yesterday we have basement walls. This coming week they are supposed to start framing the upstairs portion of the house. It is so exciting to watch the house take shape. I was also thrilled to find out this week that Kitchen Interiors (a very upscale kitchen design shop) will be doing our kitchen. The owner (Mike Brown) is the father of one of my great friends. They have been so kind to work with us and help keep things in the budget. Mike does absolutely BEAUTIFUL work and I feel so fortunate to have him designing my kitchen. If you are in the area and every have kitchen needs I strongly suggest looking him up. We have been so blessed to have good people working on every aspect of our house. Lots of people we are friends with from the community are doing the work. We know and are friends with the man that cleared our land, our builder (Jenks construction), our plumber, and our electrician. It makes things much less stressful when you know you can trust the people you are working with.
As things progress I will try to update the blog as often as I can and post new pictures. We are using Picasa for our pics but I have had trouble linking the albums to the blog. If you have and account with Picasa look us up. All the pictures are for the public so you can keep track of what we are doing. I will continue to try and get the link up.
Sept 5th 2009
Finally I have had some time to get the blog started. It seems like this summer has flown by! After Kevin and I got back from our vacation in Napa Valley we closed on our property. Part of our contract included that we would drill the well before we closed on the property. We wanted to make sure that we would have water before we actually made the purchase. After asking around in the neighborhood we realized that most of our neighbors had to drill at least 700 feet and that only produced about 2 gallons per minute. Two gallons per minute is not that great and we really couldn't afford to drill 800 or so feet. The two days it took to drill the well were long and prayerful. To our suprise we hit water at 500 feet and it was coming at 10 gallons per minute! That is more water that any other house in the subdivision. The Lord really answered our prayers! Now we are the proud new owners of 1.25 acres that we are very quickly turning into a house. The property was officially ours on Aug 14, 2009. I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have that part of the process over with!
The weekend we closed on the property we started clearing the land. Since Kevin and I have always rented our home it feels nice to own something. We actually helped (as much as we could) to clear the property. Some of our dear friends from church offered to help us cut down some trees. We spent a whole Sunday cutting, chopping, and dragging. Kevin and Ryan actually did most of the work, but Sarah and I managed to provide lunch. As fearful as I was, Kevin managed to use a chain saw and did a great job. It wasn't that I didn't think he could do it I just wanted him to keep both legs so he could walk into the new house. (Those of you who know me know how much I worry :) When big trees were falling or I got nervous I just closed my eyes. We managed to make it out with sore muscles and property ready for a foundation.
A week after the clearing was finished we had footers and as of yesterday we have basement walls. This coming week they are supposed to start framing the upstairs portion of the house. It is so exciting to watch the house take shape. I was also thrilled to find out this week that Kitchen Interiors (a very upscale kitchen design shop) will be doing our kitchen. The owner (Mike Brown) is the father of one of my great friends. They have been so kind to work with us and help keep things in the budget. Mike does absolutely BEAUTIFUL work and I feel so fortunate to have him designing my kitchen. If you are in the area and every have kitchen needs I strongly suggest looking him up. We have been so blessed to have good people working on every aspect of our house. Lots of people we are friends with from the community are doing the work. We know and are friends with the man that cleared our land, our builder (Jenks construction), our plumber, and our electrician. It makes things much less stressful when you know you can trust the people you are working with.
As things progress I will try to update the blog as often as I can and post new pictures. We are using Picasa for our pics but I have had trouble linking the albums to the blog. If you have and account with Picasa look us up. All the pictures are for the public so you can keep track of what we are doing. I will continue to try and get the link up.
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