Pictures, floor plan and oh yeah, more pictures!

I went out to the lot today and took some pictures. When I was at the office yesterday signing the contract, they told me that they had started building our plan for a model home and were framing it. Since our plan is a brand new plan, we hadn't had a chance to actually walk through one, so I was excited to see it.

But first things first. This is the floor plan for the first floor. We are doing the optional kitchen and the fireplace.

Second floor - as of now, we are doing bedroom 5 and we are definitely doing the second bathroom upstairs. The kids have declared that there will be a 'girls bathroom' and a 'boys bathroom.' I think the girls are tired of Ian in their space.

This is the lot. I've asked them to keep the magnolia tree in the front yard, and the oak tree with spanish moss on the right hand side. Other than that, they try to preserve as many trees as they can. There will be a 40' set back in the front.

Kids at the lot! They are SO excited!

And this is what the model home looks like so far. We walked through it - it's just framing so far, but it was pretty easy to see what the house will be like. I'm in love....I can't wait until ours is done and we can move in and make it our home.

The first thing you learn about building a house....

....is that you write lots of checks!

I signed the contract on our new house build today. Exciting, and scary, and somehow grown up all at once.

From what it sounds like, it will take about 5 months to build, and it will take around 6-8 weeks from now to get ready to start building. So.....by the time school starts this fall, we'll be in our brand new house!