The land didn't sell (or have any real interested potential buyers) so we decided to continue working on it. Our brother-in-law owns a large excavator so Ashley used this to take out even more trees and prepare a real homesite. The brush pile grew pretty large! These first two pictures were taken during the winter. 
Here Ashley using the excavator to grab a tree out of the ground. From there, he spun around to place it on the pile.
This May (2010) Ashley brought the excavator back to the land. Our almost 2 year-old happily joined him!
This is the view looking down the driveway. 
After all this work we were much closer to saying, "OK, we'll build there." We held off making any final decisions until after our second son was born in April 2010. As we adjusted to life with two children, we talked more about how we wanted them to grow up in the country, to have space to run around and be boys. So we put our house up for sale by owner in late August. Within 2 weeks, we had an offer and per the contract, we had to move out by the end of September. Yes, we know we were lucky--but I panicked because we hadn't settled on a house plan. Not having a plan would mean we would have to rent longer and we would be in limbo longer while we waited for the house to be built. Knowing this, we buckled down and spent many nights pouring over plans on line.
Here Ashley using the excavator to grab a tree out of the ground. From there, he spun around to place it on the pile.
This May (2010) Ashley brought the excavator back to the land. Our almost 2 year-old happily joined him!
This is the view looking down the driveway. 
After all this work we were much closer to saying, "OK, we'll build there." We held off making any final decisions until after our second son was born in April 2010. As we adjusted to life with two children, we talked more about how we wanted them to grow up in the country, to have space to run around and be boys. So we put our house up for sale by owner in late August. Within 2 weeks, we had an offer and per the contract, we had to move out by the end of September. Yes, we know we were lucky--but I panicked because we hadn't settled on a house plan. Not having a plan would mean we would have to rent longer and we would be in limbo longer while we waited for the house to be built. Knowing this, we buckled down and spent many nights pouring over plans on line.
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