Our New Home is Complete

It's been so much of a whirlwind making final choices on the home, fitting in summer activities, and packing that I can hardly remember all that has gone on the past few weeks. What I do know is I'm sitting in a cozy bed with a view of deep green blueberry bushes stretching down the horizon as the sun rises just to the east and am enjoying the quiet of this new beautiful home. All that is missing is Clint--we had 2-3 days to move before I rushed him off to the airport. He'll be at a conference in San Diego for a week, then head north to Seattle to complete his Pacific Coast Banking School program he has been working on for 3 years. I'm sad I won't be there to see him graduate, even if it's not a big deal to him. I have more than enough to do here, though, a lot of it is still piled in the garage and stashed all over the garage. It will get there. For now I am just so incredibly grateful for the space and the beauty we get to enjoy for at least the next 10 years as we raise our fun family.

Here are a few pics I snapped with my phone--hoping this works, as we don't have our Internet connection yet and I'm doing this all off my phone (thus te funny order of the pics).

I did have to include this first cute one of the girls--it's so how we have all felt. I caught this on an Ikea run we made between moving loads so we could stock up before Clint left.

House project 2012: one house, 6 bedrooms, 7 sinks and 7 happy Summers

I've had big plans to make a fantastic post about our home construction, but seems like the builders have beat me to it and we are now possibly only 5 weeks to completion. They broke ground April 12 and it looks like will stay on track to have everything in place August 1st or so. We couldn't be happier with the results! Here are the plans and a few shots that we took along the way (and no, they are not totally in order, not enough to play with Blogger on that!):

We broke ground!

We snuck over to our lot after dinner last evening to see if it's true, if  it's for real that we are building a house. We were all surprised by the amount of dirt, and I could tell those dirt hills were especially tempting to Dax. Lucky for us the tractor was still digging, so we had a great excuse for keeping away, but also a good look at the dig in action. Kenna made me laugh by sneaking a toy over to play in the grass and remaining berry bushes just about as soon as she jumped out of the car. We're all excited to feel at home there, I think Kenna feels she can actually relax and play there. We took a nice walk around our new "loop," one of our favorite past times at our last home--evening walks around our forested loop in Sandpoint. We should be there in no time, taking many, many more family walks .