A home on the hill

On November 1st of last year we put a contract on a residential acreage a few miles north of where we currently live but within the same town. Leading up to that decision we spent years touring countless resale homes and driving through so many new developments in search of land to build, that I feel I know this town better than some who have lived here all their life. Nothing ever seemed to be the right fit for our family so we waited.

On a whim, in the fall of 2011 we returned to a neighborhood we had driven through a couple times prior because there was a model home featured in the Parade of Homes we wanted to see. We were impressed with the neighborhood location, the homes that had been built in there and the landscape of the area with its rolling terrain and abundance of trees.












After touring the model home, we walked a few of the lots for sale and one really stood out from the rest. It was a (nearly) two acre parcel that sat at the top of a hill, offering spectacular views both northeast over the rolling hills and southwest towards the sunset; perfect for the 'front porch' style home we'd dreamed of building.
Fast forward six months to Friday, May 18th, when we finally closed on the lot where we will be building our forever home. On Saturday we took the kids out to the property (or 'prop-a-wee' as Anna calls it) to have a family ground-breaking. Preparations for the real construction will begin this coming week.

We look forward to raising the kids in our 'home on the hill' and having it be a place they call home even after they are adults.