Plans APPROVED

Yesterday was a great day in the Village of Grafton. I attended the Architectural Board Meeting that would determine if the plans were acceptable to move forward with processing the building permit. The committee approved the alternative house version since the house down the street looked too similar. As soon as the meeting was over I called Erin and told her the good news. Next steps are to meet with the project manager for the pre-construction review, (2 hour meeting) and find out the dig date... should be around the second week of June!!! Things are now moving forward. Keep checking the blog for updates and photos.

Home plans

It's been some time since we've posted on our new home...and that's because we are still in the "waiting" stages. The Village of Grafton added some new building restriction codes that had to be put into place which put us out another month. So, we are scheduled to go to the ARCH Board meeting next week Thursday. There they will approve or not approve (OMG) our home plans. Grafton has a strict monotony code which limits which homes you can build. And, we do have the same home a few doors down from us so we convinced our builder to change up the facade of our home. So, cross your fingers and pray that everything goes well.

Here is house #1

Here is a new sketch in case we get denied on the spot!

We have some great friends in our new neighborhood already! We have been up there driving around meeting people and playing with old friends!!!! We just can't wait to get this process started and get on going!!!! Sooooo we wait until next week to get the show on or off the road.

*either way the garage will be on the left side

Two wheels!!!

WE ARE SO PROUD OF OUR DEAR SAM!!!

He is officially on TWO wheels with the help of dear friend Nico.

sometimes it's fun to be different

Man it's been a little chilly here in WI. If it's not raining, it's cloudy. If it's not sunny, it's windy. And surly it's not hot, we are still in fleece and pants...sometimes we even whip out the down jackets. So, yesterday I decided it was picture day for the boys. I took them to the park, got one good picture of Matthew, Sam thought otherwise. After we ran around the park and got haircuts, the boys were famished. We decided to have a car picnic (good ole' Florida memory). But this time I was going to park the car and the boys were going to be creative on how they were going to sit and eat. Did they have fun. They thought this was the best thing ever! They both picked the back seat. Matthew sat on his tool box, Sam sat on his booster seat, which I will not let him ride in yet. They were so cute. I even got Starbucks beforehand and I got to enjoy it in peace!

Boots, mud, sticks and leaves...oh my

We can't decide if it is warm outside yet...so we experiment. We start the day with long sleeves, end the day with short sleeves, but we keep our boots on just in case it gets cold out...or the mud just happens to jump in our path when we are playing!