Catching Up!

I have not disappeared! I promise.  Instead, we have kept life interesting and continued on our gypsy ways.  But it's coming to an end...

3......................MORE........................SLEEPS

On Thursday, July 31st, we get posession of our very little, but bigger than the trailer, house!  It is a 1 bedroom, 700 sq ft box of a house.  I do not have pictures yet, but will try to follow up with some soon (sooner rather than later).

So why did we buy a 1 bedroom house? I am sure it is hard for many of you to understand why we would do that when we have 2 girls.  Well, there is a large walk in closet that will easily fit a bunk bed, so for now that is where the girls will sleep.  Maybe in the near future, we will build a small addition off the back to make another bedroom. Back to why?...  John's dream, which quickly became our dream, has been to build a house.  It has not been feasible yet.  So when, we put our house in CHilliwack on the market, we started looking for houses in Dawson Creek.  We had a price range, a very low price range, keeping in mind of the possibility of either renovating an older house, or being able to tear down existing structure and build a new one.  Well, between JOhn and I, we looked at between 10-15 houses.  All, but 2 were not livable, as in needing thousands of dollars of renovating.  Most had foundation issues, which we weren't willing to deal with.  So back to the final 2.  THey are basically across the road from each other.  The lots are the same size.
--One lot is subdividable, the other lot is not.
--One has a 3 bedroom old and outdated smelly house.  The other has a 1 bedroom well kept small house
--One is on a busy street, but backs onto  a quite street.  The other is on a quiet street (the same quiet street as the other backs onto) and backs onto a green space that will never have houses on it.

So, we decided to start small.  Rather than buying the subdividable property and deal with building 2 different houses right away, we chose the 1 bedroom property (it really wasn't a hard choice for me)

What we hope to do is to build a house right behind that existing house. The garage of the new house would go where the old house is. The city really didn't like this idea as then there would be 2 single dwelling homes on one title.  But they have talked amongst themselves, labeled us "those guys" and have figured out a way that we will be able to get it done.

It is very exciting! VERY exciting!