we bought a house!


Except it doesn't technically exist. Yet. We're building it, and today we gave them a kidney non-refundable deposit and signed piles of paperwork in blood. Oh, and Carter threw ridiculous, embarrassing tantrums in the realtor's office and smeared poop all over his shirt. Another story, another day.

(Quite a first for me, starting a post about a house with visions of blood and poop.)

Here's the floor plan (sorry about the blurry letters):

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I want to use the 'Library' as Carter's playroom.

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Relief surges through my veins just looking at the upstairs laundry room. I also love the Jack & Jill bathroom for kids (dead giveaway we're going to try for another ... sometime) and the guest room with its own bathroom, since 99% of our family is out of town.

The neighborhood has an elementary school across the street, sidewalks and walking trails, a pool, clubhouse and playground. And I'm hoping? Tons of little families hiding in their houses, peeking out their windows, just waiting on the edges of their seats for Carter to move to the neighborhood and befriend their children.

The model home we've been looking at every weekend for the past - I dunno - forty trillion months is an exact replica of what we're building. We're even planning on the same granite, cabinets, lighting, appliances and similar floors ... so this weekend I'm going to stop by with my good camera and get some pictures to post. In the meantime, I have a blurry iPhone picture of the kitchen to tide you over.

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How does it feel to tie yourself to something this solid? Scary. I'm so nervous. It's like I just had a wedding with a building ( ... err ... piece of land?). I'm mostly worried that the neighborhood won't be perfect enough for Carter. Matt and I just chose his future - the children he'll meet and be influenced by, the places he'll play, the memories he'll develop and hopefully cherish. I hope the entire situation is one he'll be able to look back on and be proud of some day.

Tonight, I keep swallowing back my nerves with reminders to myself that I'm going to love the house. And then Matt said it. We're going to get to have Carter's next birthday in this house. That was all I needed to hear. I'm so happy.

Construction will be finished at the end of July; I'm betting the next four months are going to feel just as long as the last week of pregnancy.

Earlier today, Carter, Grandma and I went to a crazyoutofourpricerange house to get decor ideas.
Ok, and maybe I just wanted to pretend I lived there for a few minutes. This apartment is getting all kinds of grimey.


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34 comments:

  1. Wow! what an exciting time in your life! You guys sound like you are building your dream home. EEeee! You will have so much fun picking out every aspect of your new house.

    It warms my heart so much you are trying for another baby. I do hope you are blessed with a baby girl (is that wrong to say?) Another little man would be just as wonderful!

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  2. Congrats on the big purchase! Can't wait to see all the pics. The kitchen is gorgeous. And I hear you on the laundry room. Mine is currently in the basement. Such a hassle!

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  3. Congrats! Your new home looks like it will be beautiful! One piece of advice - invest in every dusting product you can get your hands-on, and spend some money to get the ductwork cleaned before or right after you move in. The dust in a new build home for the first little while is ridiculous! Good luck to you and your family!

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  4. OMG I love your soon to be kitchen!!! Holy cow this is gorgeous!! FUn pictures;0

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  5. oh and that bedding is so similar to what is going in my bedroom;0 hehe

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  6. Wow things work fast where you're from. Here in the UK a build from start to finish can take from 1-2 years!! When I first read that you were building a house I thought you were mad!!
    But when you mentioned the time frame, I was amazed and very envious as things are never that straight forward here.
    Congratulations on finding your new home. You deserve every happiness after all you've been through xxx

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  7. this is so exciting for you guys! i'm sure in the end you will be so happy that you are building. this way you can add all your special little details!

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  8. Congrats on your new house!!! :) Its going to be so beautiful. So exciting! :)

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  9. HOLY-JEALOUS-OF-MEG'S-TO-BE-SWANK-HOUSE-RIGHT-NOW

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  10. Wow, I am BEYOND happy for you guys! Congrats! This is one of THE biggest purchases you'll ever make. I love that bathroom, and kitchen! I can't wait 'til you blog about moving and etc lol. But, we must get the story with Carter's poop lol.

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  11. So exciting!!! Congrats!! Love the layout of the floor plan when I saw the library I thought carters playroom before I read the line. Hope these next four months flies by for your little family <3

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  12. congratulations...it will be so beautiful when its all done and you are moved in!! happy for you and your family :)

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  13. Praise God! Congrats on your new beautiful home!!

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  14. Congrats! So happy for you guys! The floor plan and blurry phone pic look amazing!

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  15. Congratulations! We have just finished building our home, and we get to pick up our keys next week :). It has been a long 12 months but we are sooo happy with our new home. We were able to have everything how we wanted and to suit our family of 5! Feel free to follow my blog, I will be posting some pics of our home and some furniture I have been doing up. Good Luck!

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  16. @peta thanks peta! hehe i hope we get a girl too bc it would be fun to see a version of carter with bows in her hair. plus i wouldn't have to fight the urge to buy carter a dress & try it on him just for fun. :P

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  17. @Melissa and Brew my laundry was in the basement too ... i can't tell you how many loads of laundry got mildewed & had to be rewashed bc we forgot/didn't want to go back down there. YUCK! and we had to put our shoes on to go down bc there were milipedes crawling around.

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  18. @Sadie AHA, very good advice about getting the ductwork cleaned! i think i've heard that at some point about new homes, but i completely forgot about it!

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  19. @Casey Martinez thanks casey! yep the kitchen is definitely my fav room so far!

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  20. @Glitterbug thank you friend :)
    that's a long time! if it took that long, i wouldn't even have considered it, we're getting so cramped in this apartment.

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  21. @PKTLeechford thanks! i'm definitely happy that everything will be brand new!

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  22. @JKL jenney you always make me laugh! you're going to be looking for new places soon too!!

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  23. @Miss C i n d i a * the poop was terrible! i went to the car to change his diaper & the poop was smeared down his legs, then he grabbed it and got it all over his shirt & hand, i threw the diaper into the street along with wipe after wipe after wipe. (i picked them up after i was done) .. and then of course he had no poopless clothes to wear back into the realtor's office, so he had to wear a sweatjacket and socks. luckily it was afterhours and nobody was around.

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  24. @mandeeking746 it's a good idea, right? i really wanted a "bonus room" for him, but this will work just as well. it's a small playroom & i want to do so much with it - like a little craft table, shelves, stuff like that. hopefully there'll be enough room. and if not, i can use his future sibling's room for play too.

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  25. @Shannon thanks shannon! i'm going to get some better pictures soon :)

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  26. @Sarah quite a family! you guys deserve lots of brand new space, i bet the babies will love it! going to check out your blog now :)

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  27. How exciting! I've always hoped we could build a house like we want but we'll see. We're kind of getting to design at least half of our place. The basement is unfinished & we're working on finishing it since the spare room is becoming the nursery. :) Hope July comes fast for you guys!

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  28. Great plan for your house! You should've taken advantage of the construction and added your own touch to make this house feel it's absolutely all yours. How's Carter, by the way? I hope he's feeling comfortable in your new home.

    -Nannie Toller @ Utah-Mortgage-Lenders

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