I found this picture of the front of barn in my pictures.




This is stage 1 of the project, taken last summer when we were cleaning out all the junk inside the barn.



When the concrete is all dug up and outta there, I'll take a new pic for the during stage and then once we have the house up, then I'll proudly post an after pic!!!

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laptop!?! Doesn't quite sound right, does it?

Am I the only one that automatically thinks 'gosh, did I forget to pay that electric bill?' when the lights go out and it's not even stormy? BTW, I doublechecked and I had paid the bill

So we put the kids to bed and dh and I were sitting on the couch talking about our day when the lights flickered and then they went out. The boys started to freak out because they HATE power outages, so dh went back up to lay...

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Like all little boys, my boys LOVE construction vehicles. The bigger the machinery, the more their eyes light up with pure joy.

This morning, I can definitely appreciate their excitement!

This past weekend, dh and I spent at least 15-18 hours taking down the back section of the remaining part of the barn by hand before finally coming to the conclusion that if we wanted the other 2 sections down anytime before 2020 that we needed to have some machinery helping us out....

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new plans for the house have been ordered!

I met with the building inspector this morning to make sure we had all the information we needed and there's only a few little details that the builder is getting to me and then the only holdup for applying for the building permit is we need to have the rest of the barn down to close out our demo permit.

There will be an excavator and a dump truck here tomorrow taking care of that. WOO HOO

Hopefully they won't...

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I don't think I'll actually be able to partially relax until after we've signed the papers at the bank and we know that it's in the hands of the builder, and then fully relax once we can start moving things into our new house.

So the cliff notes is that we're taking down the old barn and a new 3 bedroom modular home with a full walk out basement will be in its place.

Every day seems like a new thing with it. We're just waiting for the bank to call us with the closing...

sbp