I realized that I've never explained what me and Josh are trying to do and why there has been so many changes in our life the last couple of years. So please, let me explain......uh hum......
In 2009 we bought some property in Fruitland Utah. It's about an 1 1/2 to 2 hours away from Salt Lake. It's just past Heber City in between Strawberry Reservoir and Starvation Lake. 10 acres and it's gorgeous. Our Plan was/is to build our own house on the property and do it all ourselves (or as much as we can). And to top it off we want to do all of it as GREEN as we can. After realizing how hard this is to do especially with Josh working out of town 5 days of the week and having two kids that need stability (and a SANE mom!!) we have redesigned our plan to build a cabin first so that we can at least enjoy our property and slowly build a house. We've bought two conexes that we're going to build our cabin/house out of.
I know this sounds crazy but we put a TON of thought into this, it wasn't something that we impulsively did. It may have seemed like it was spur of the moment but I didn't talk to anyone about it. I didn't want to be swayed in either direction. Josh has for the last 5 years thought about all these different ideas and how and what would be the best way to go about it.
So that is the reason that we moved from Tooele into a 5th wheel trailer parked next to his mom's house and lived in that for a year. I haven't really told many people about what our intentions were just because I didn't want to answer all the questions that come with it. The main question being "ARE YOU CRAZY?" secondly reminding me about how hard that's going to be with two little kids! Trust me when I tell you I thought about how crazy this all seems and how hard this is going to be. In the end it was the best decision for our family and it will happen just not as soon as we originally planned!
The biggest thing that both me and Josh want is to be able to enjoy the little things in life and not be so consumed with "things". Does that sound a little granola?? I swear I'm not going to start making my clothes out of hemp or trading my t.v.'s for chickens! It's just that we want to enjoy more of the important things and not be so consumed in keeping up with the Jones'! Anyway that is just a general update about our plans and what our ultimate goal is. Oh, and don't worry....I will be blogging about all of this so look out for that (I know you'll all be so excited!!!)
Here are some pictures of when we first went and decided on the land. Since then they have cleared a huge flat area for where we're going to build the house and a road was cleared so that we could access the entire property. And there's two conexe's there too! (I'll include more pictures and details later)
Doesn't Tori looks so cute?! She was such a happy girl!
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