New Adventures For Us

So we have almost been living with my parents for 15 months. It has been hard but to be able to see the progress with our new house makes it very exciting and worth it. Everything started on May 13th and now a few months later it is roofed and most of the windows are in and time for the doors. From almost the beginning Dustin's dad and Dustin have been doing most of the work themselves. It's very rewarding to know that you put so much hard work into your own house, but in reality they both have jobs and are very tired. We go out there almost everyday and walk around the different rooms, I just can't hardly believe it's ours. So it's a 3 bedroom one story house, with a cathedral living room and is going to have floor to ceiling windows looking to the back. It also has a dining nook, vaulted master bedroom and great attic space. We will also be covering it with log siding(my favorite part). This may sound like a lot but the other new and exciting thing is we started a small Christmas tree farm. We planted 90 Christmas trees in the back corner of our lot in April and we will be adding to that number every year. We hope to sell these in 5-7 years. We currently have Fraser Firs, Scotch Pines, White Pines, and Blue Spruces. It takes me an hour to water them every other day, especially with how hot it has been lately and no rain. We are reading and trying to learn as much as we can about being Christmas tree farmers, we joke about it all the time, but so far we are having fun with it. Besides that Sophie just started a preschool(CMO) at Asbury Methodist and is going Tuesdays and Thursdays. She will be 3 in October!

Back view, the upper windows in living room aren't in yet

A Scotch Pine