YAAASSSSS JEEEEESUUUSSS!!!! I think HE just performed Miracle #38!

WE HAVE A FLOOR!!!! I never ever thought I would ever be so excited to say that we have a floor for our house. I can tell you, since I last posted, we have had a couple more hiccups but nothing like the crazy cement company giving us the shaft for a better job. Now, in saying that, we had rescheduled for that Saturday after the other company cancelled. Well, it rained the Thursday before, and not just a little rain. As my husband says, "it was a toad strangler". So, we rescheduled for yesterday, which was Friday. The new cement company had to come out on Thursday to make sure the road/long driveway was going to be able to support the 15 truckloads of cement that had to come through to the pad site. Aaannnd, there was a problem. There was one weak spot in the road that they were concerned about, so we had to reschedule, AGAIN, for this morning at 4:15 (and during the day on Friday, Travis fixed the spot on the road by adding more rock to make it more sturdy). That's right, you didn't make a mistake when you saw the time. 4:15 A.M. Travis had to meet the guys up at the site at 3:00 A.M. to make sure that there were lights for them. Again, you did not make a mistake is reading the time, 3:00 A.M. Then, Travis had to leave around 7:00 to drive to Dallas for continuing education hours. To say I appreciate everything he does for our family would be a definite understatement! Allie also had a slumber party for her birthday last night. Our family has a crazy lifestyle right now, but I wouldn't have it any other way!!!!

The framing for the house is scheduled for Monday. I hope it happens, but at this point, I'm learning to be extremely patient through the frustrations. There are things that are always going to be out of my circle of control, and even though I want to control it, only God has the say in that.

In the Bible, it shows that Jesus performed 37 miracles, now, I know He has given you miracle #38, because, again, we finally have a floor!!!!

3 Steps Forward, 5 Steps Back...

Well, we thought we were making progress. Full steam ahead! NOT!!!! The footings have been dug on the pad site, the road has construction mats that have been put down under A LOT of rock to make sure that everything is sturdy enough for the concrete trucks, the cement company had come out to the land looked at the road, and everything was good to go for pouring the foundation on Wednesday, and.....SURPRISE!!!! The cement company came out again, today, for an unknown reason, started probing around the road, and told us that there were several things wrong, so they could not pour tomorrow. REALLY?!? You just told us YESTERDAY that everything was great, and we were ready to pour cement. So, I'm going to be really honest in saying that my husband was beyond TICKED!!! Let's just say that we found out that they had been offered a better, higher paying job, and needed to put us off for a few days so that they could take this other job. Seriously? This was the way they were trying to do it. Basically, in the nicest way possible (lol) Travis told them to get off of our property, and we would find someone else to do the work. Instead of being honest about what was going on, they wanted to just put us off until we were "worth" their time. It reminds me of girlfriend/boyfriend situations where they only see the other person when it's convenient for them or they don't have something better to do. We were all set in this being "THE DAY", the day that we would see something more than dirt on the pad site, the day that our home was actually being started, we would have a floor! Travis and several of our friends even took the day off of work to go oversee the project and help. Well, not anymore! In sharing all of this, we did find a new reputable company that was more than happy to have our business and will be pouring on Saturday. We know that this project will get done, eventually, and we have to realize that there will be frustrating moments, but in the end, it's going to be totally worth it! Hopefully, I will be able to post more on Saturday, and there will cement being poured on the site. Y'all say some prayers!!!!

 

 

 

Let's Get It Started!!!

       Well, the time is finally here! Through a lot of prayer, tons of planning, months of five people living in an apartment (with one of them being an energetic 3 year old), we closed on our construction loan about a month and a half ago!
       A few months ago, I made a post on Facebook and asked a question about things you would put in a home if you were going to build a new home. The suggestions that were given were awesome, and someone suggested that I start a Facebook page to show the house as it's being built. I tried to start a page for that, but they told me that I needed to be a business to have a page. That's okay. I can add in more words and pictures in a blog. I'm not just going to tell you about the house as it's being built, but I'm also going to tell you what joys and frustrations you will face during the building process.
       As we've been going through all of this, it has been stressful, time consuming, and kind of makes you want to choke everyone around, at times. Other times, it is so exciting, because we are getting to build this beautiful home that describes "us". This is our FOREVER earthly home. My husband is from Oklahoma and loves rustic, mountain, hunting, and southwestern type decorations. Not me. Not me at all!!! I am from South Carolina, and I'm southern to the core. In fact, a lot of our decorations have come from Charleston!!! It's not that I don't appreciate the western, hunting, or cowboy type stuff, but it's just not my personality or who I am. Mountain, I can do some of that. So we compromised. There is A LOT of stone and cedar, but I worked with an interior designer (who actually bought our last house, and is TOTALLY worth every dime we are spending to  have her help us), and the entire interior is pretty much done, down to the paint color and kitchen and bathroom fixtures. I was able to choose colors, that I love, that go well with the stone, but also goes with our family's personality, along with our interests. During this time of living five people in one apartment, we have been able to save money, which in turn has helped us start buying furniture. Yes, we've even had time to pick that out. Once piece of advice I did receive from a friend who recently built a home was to wait to pick out accent pieces, like rugs, pillows, etc. until we see the furniture in the rooms.
       
        So now, back to the actual building of the house, THE RAIN!!!! Oh my gosh, THE RAIN!!!! I love rain, but the amount that Texas has actually received this year has been unreal, and in turn, has delayed this project by a ridiculous amount of time. The pad site is there, the plumbing has been roughed in, and then it rains 10 inches, And then it rains a lot of more inches, and it just won't stop. It has rained so much, And it washes out part of the road. And again, no work can be accomplished. The road to the house became so muddy that the concrete trucks were having a hard time getting back to the pad site, and it has just stayed so wet, that they cannot actually pour the concrete for the foundation. Another thing that happened is that the boards that outlined the area for the foundation were not high enough, so the concrete guys had to come back out and make them higher. I'm not going to lie. It has been frustrating, but we know that it will all be worth it once the house is actually finished. I'm posting pictures of the pad site along with the plumbing being roughed in. Hopefully soon, I can show the foundation being poured. Y'all say some prayers! :)