The Story of Us

While this blog will be mainly focusing on the house we are building (and because I can't resist myself, a little bit of baking and cooking and gardening and crocheting thrown in), it is also a story of P.C. and me and our life together. But to spare you all of the details of how we met (on a cold evening in December 2006) and our (very!) short engagement and first few years of marriage, I thought I'd  timeline it out in list format because a) I'm a geek that way and love lists, and b) it relieves me from getting into all of the boring, unsexy details of married life that nobody ever seems to talk about. Like who fights with who over leaving the shower curtain open, and how you lay awake in bed at night hoping that at some point the other person will stop snoring so you can finally get to sleep (both of which I promise are not me).

We begin our story.

December 2006- I meet P.C. through a mutual friend one night while visiting Branson. We date for a few months until....

May 2007-I decide to move to Missouri to be closer to P.C. and also go to school for a Bachelor's degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management. P.C. proposes in June and we are married November 17, 2007 (and the snoring begins).

2007-Knowing that the 1 bedroom duplex P.C. built many years ago is getting too small for us (and the children we want to someday have), we begin considering building a home. Our first thought is to build another duplex on our existing 11 acres and rent out the other half to supplement our income. But after a while we knew that we wanted more privacy. And since the rest of our land is too rocky to build a house on, we begin the house-hunting. We spend hours upon hours traveling across Missouri looking at acreage and houses and giving grief to realtors. 

July 2010-On the way back from visiting family in Nebraska our realtor calls us and tells us about a 5-acre plot of land that just came up for sale. The moment we arrive in Missouri that night we check out the land and make an offer on it. A week later the bank accepts the offer and informs us that as soon as the paperwork goes through, its ours! 

August 2010- After a lot of soul-searching and contemplating our future and family values, I realize that the restaurant business is not for me. So I take the plunge and return to college for my degree in Early Childhood & Elementary Education, to be completed in December of 2012

December 2010-Still waiting on the bank! They finally finish the paperwork but try to double charge us for realtor fees. We counteract and the process starts all over again. *le sigh*

March 2011-Come to find out, our signature was missing from one of the many documents and was the cause of the hold-up. However, in the process of waiting on the bank, P.C. and I come across another 5-acre plot of land that is significantly cheaper and with a much better view and better soil. So with the first offer still hanging in the air, we make an offer on the second land with another bank.

April 2011-Our offer is accepted on the second plot and the paperwork is processed! The land is ours! On the same day that we become owners, we are informed that the offer on the original plot of land has come through, and would we like to buy it? No thank you!

October 2011-The floor plan is finalized (and will be discussed in detail in another post) and the house is staked out on the land. Breaking ground is any day now!