We have met with the bank, and they were more than happy with our financial outlook.  She told C that most people come in with half the salary and asking for twice as much, so our proposal shouldn't be a problem.  That was nice to hear!  Now hopefully we can find someone to build us the house for not more than we want to spend…that's going to be the hard part.

We had one builder come back to us with a bid for $263K, for just the upstairs finished!  And the well, septic, and foundation are already finished and paid for!  How can 1600sf finished cost that much!?!?  Geesh!  Our realtor warned us that they would come in high, so we will see what the other bids come in as.  Hopefully the first bid was as outrageous as it seems!  We are expecting another bid today, and really like this guy whom we talked to on Monday.

The other option we have discussed recently is going ahead and moving the house down there, and paying my brother to help me be a general contractor, and arrange the finish work ourselves.  One thing C told me was that we would hire someone to move the furniture from the upstairs to the downstairs when it comes time to finish the upstairs.  That was a blessing!

I just have to keep remembering that God is in control, and until last spring, I never thought we would be leaving here and moving closer to town…it is just taking a little longer than we thought it would to do it.  N asked me this morning, “Why is this house so small?”  I told her it was because that's what size we built it.  It sure didn't seem this small 4 years ago, when she was only 7 months old, and the boys were only 2, 5, and 6!