House Stuff

As I'm sure everyone knows, we are in the process of building a new house. It is pretty exciting going through the whole process and getting to pick out all the details to make the house exactly how we want it. Below is a photo of the model home that ours will look like, with two major exceptions: 1) Our house will be a mirror image of this one, having a right side garage and 2) Our house will have a large section of stone on middle of the front.
We drive by the future home site fairly often just to watch the progress. This week they poured the foundation walls and now it has to sit and "cure" for a period of time before work continues. The builder told us that if it hadn't been for so much rainy weather it would already be framed!
Our excitement about the new house is somewhat tempered by the stress of selling our current home. We have until about December to get this one sold, but it would be nice to sell it much sooner and be secure in the knowledge that we will not be paying two mortgages! On that note, we have a standing offer to all of our family, friends and acquaintances that if they know someone looking to buy a home and they refer them to our house, we will pay the referring person $1000 after their referral closes on our house! Just think what you could do with an extra $1000!??! Maybe take a little vacation....a shoe shopping spree....a new television....the options are endless!

For future reference our new address will be 6205 N. Elmwood Avenue Kansas City, MO 64119.