I suppose I should have started by giving a bit of background...
We've been living in our current home for 6 years. My hubby has been itching to buy a place with some property, nothing huge but something where we could build a house and not be staring into the neighbours yard while we are on our deck. Don't get me wrong we have great neighbours, but I agreed that being able to have some privacy would be great. So he has been on the hunt for a while. When we came across this place we recognised the potential right away. The house is old, I suppose with a bit of help it would be livable for a while but I'd rather not. Does that make me superficial? High maintenance? If it does  - too bad!

One of my stipulations was that we find something that allowed the kids to remain at their current school - check, we'd have space for a pool - check, and I'd have my open concept  - according to plans so far - check.

We have a private custom home builder lined up who is amazing. He is a friend of the family and built my in laws home. He was actually ready to retire but agreed to do our place. My hubby, thankfully, is a handy guy. He will be doing a lot of work at the house with some help from my hubby #2 (don't ask, long story - that's another blog Lol), hopefully speeding up the process. My husband thinks we'll be in the house by the end of Spring. I say he's delusional but what do I know. We take possession tomorrow, and our house will officially be on the market next week. Once we sell our place the plan is to stay with my in laws until the house is ready to move in. Thankfully I get along with my in laws and other than having to share one shower amongst what will be 6 of us I think it will be fine.

The existing house on the property will eventually be demolished but we don't have to rush on that. We plan on putting the house further into the lot and the old house won't be in the way of us starting. We'll most likely use the existing house to store some of our things. Of course this is given our plans are approved by the county and we can move forward. We should find out after they meet on Oct 15th.

So...fingers crossed everything goes according to plan and we can get things going mid October!