The Scoop on our lot

Nate's parents sit on about 7 acres of wooded land.  With that being said, they are selling us 1 acre and we are going to build a house.  There has been a lot of paperwork because it is a little bit of a different situation.  Nate's parents are considered 'county' but we are trying to 'tie' into the city so that we don't have to have a septic tank and such.  It will just be easier.  However, it is taking a little longer than we had hoped for all of these 'things' to get approved.  Our house papers are now waiting to be approved by the zoning board...  We had to have our land surveyed and Nate drew out the acre (the shape and what we want it to look like and cut off points and such) that we wanted and Dave turned them in for us.  Nate attended the city meeting a few weeks ago where it was sent to the zoning board.  So, we are patiently waiting to hear back so that we can get things started.

We are currently looking at various house plans but are having a hard time narrowing it down.  We know we want a wide open floor plan with the master bedroom on the main level and the other bedrooms upstairs.  So, we have tons of magazines laying around here and Nate has been looking online a lot for house plans as well.  There are so many cool ideas, which make it even harder.

In the meantime, Nate has been busy cutting down trees and burning leaves on our 'property' (as Nate refers to it)  If you look to the right where my car is parked - that will be the beginning of our driveway.

This is what our lot looks like now.

 This is the road up to our house.  I say up because our house will sit on top of the hill.

 This is what we will see out the back of our house:)

 Tootie says...'yeah I think I could live here'

 We all wear hats and hoods right now because I'm paranoid about ticks...they are so bad this year.

and this little guy LOVES going into the woods....we have explained to Grey that we are trying to clear the land a little bit because this is where our new house will be and he gets really excited

and if you look closely through the woods there and over the creek are Nate's parents.  Can you see that garage through the woods and there is a vehicle parked there?  There are about 2 acres that will sit between us + all the woods.  I told Deb the only time she will be able to see our house is in the WINTER -haha!  we joke about it;)

 Kissing on his sister in between rakin' leaves;)

and no matter what Grey is always prepared

kisses for my girl...

 This is the road to our house.  I took a picture of it because I LOVE IT!  It's one of my favorite things about our house.  The drive up to it.  It's so pretty.  It's a big, wide, long road that dips in the middle and then when you get to the top - it will be us!

(do you like my house drawing? ;) - just to give you an idea of where we will be...

right there where the road ends will be the start of our driveway...

So that's what we know as of now... 

and in other news...sister is sporting some Cons now too;)