House Update #2

We spent all day in Beeville today closing on our Construction Loan to start building our dream home. Then has been quite a long, tedious process with some curves along the way but I am sure it will be worth it. At this point I feel like I could be a real estate attorney with as many hurdles as we had to go through to get this process started. Who would have known that buying our own lot and paying for it 100% cash would have been our biggest foe?!?!

And just for the record Justin and I have now officially 'closed' on property 5 times now (when I sold my land in 2002, when we bought our house in 2003, when we sold our house in 2009, when we bought our lot in 2009 and now our construction loan for this house in 2010). Justin and I joked as we drove away from this closing that this is the first time we closed on property where we left with NOTHING. Normally when we SOLD something, we walked away with $. When we BOUGHT something we walked away with a key (and a mortgage).

The brighter side to the day (and much less formal than signing 50 million disclosure statements) was that the kids got to stay with Papa and Vanessa while we closed and had tons of FUN! Then MiMi(Justin's mom) came home early to see her grand kids and we all had a good time. Wesley got the ride the HUGE John Deere tractor with PaPa and Kate got to feed the cows and horses. What a great way to end the week!