We're starting a blog...

Well we are full of adventures so we've decided to start a blog to share it more easily with family. It will mostly be about our latest big life adventure but a long the way I'll share personal aspects with you too.

This is us: Here's our latest story: For several years we have been looking for land and occasionally houses. We never found the right thing, it was either too far out, too hilly, out of our price range, house wasn't as good as the one we have now or there was a cell phone tower too close to it. We were slowly losing hope for that dream place.

Then it happened, one day after a trip to our local realtor, Venture Real Estate, we found out that the best way to be searching for land was straight throught their company website. Things were on there a lot quicker than the Homes and Land books we had been looking at during every dinner/lunch out. So I followed Nick's suggestion and went to my computer and checked out their website, there it was a section of land that looked perfect. We went on the hunt to find it, after great directions we made our way right to it. As we came around the last turn to it we looked at each other and knew this was perfect. We instantly made a call to get the motions started on it, we felt it may go quickly so didn't want to wait too long. Unfortunately this happened to be the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, 2011. Great! Everyone is away on vacation and we are not patient people.

After what felt like an eternity our Closing date came for the land to be ours... June 29th was here! We walked out super excited to finally be landowners of property our son can run and play on forever. We now own 17 acres.

With the Branson's that's never enough :-) There was an adjoining 12 acres that another family member owned that we wanted part of. We made a call to start the ball to purchase an additional 4 acres that would make the lay of the land complete. This deal was a lot easier so by July 26th we were closing on this extra 4 acres which will become a baseball field sometime this coming summer.

Here is our land, at least what we could get in one picture, there are several acres of wooded land behind and to the right the picture taker.

We spent many weekends out there last fall, just playing ball, flying airplanes, cleaning up the weeds, getting cattails out of the pond. It has been great memories already!