This home is where our hearts are...

We recently started building our "FOREVER HOME..." That is such a loaded statement that it's tough for me to even say that. Forever implies a lot of things. It implies happiness and light and raising our son. It implies that we will never need something bigger or something smaller. It implies that life can't jump in and change that forever plan, and Clint and I know very well that that can happen. But, regardless of all that, we took the plunge. We're doing it. And it's fantastic. The house was a foundation for a mere week before the framers stepped in and gave us a whole house (in FOUR days...). We are keeping it a secret from Brent and Laura, and that's been a real challenge given the fact that both of the boys have been here for the last month. Dilyn almost gave it away, but we were able to salvage his slip with a water line snafu story...haha. They are coming in tonight to get the boys, so the secret will be out, and it will be a relief. The experience so far has been so good. We are very blessed to have an incredible contractor and to have worked with so many great people. These pictures are a bit old (last week...haha). We now have windows and doors, a roof, and some brick. We have the start of a place that's permanent. I can't wait for Kai to begin his life in the house where he will one day bring the girl who will become his wife to meet me and his dad...

And so it begins...

Because Clint is doing so much of the work, Kai and I spend a lot of time there at night. He loves it. They both do. Clint is over the moon that we are finally achieving this dream.

I said once after we lost Cade that sitting in a chair on the shore of Lake Michigan assured me there was a God in the way that church sometimes didn't. This place is like that.

After day 3...

Behind this house about ten years ago, Clint proposed to me. With rain sprinkling down and his glasses on, we started our future on that hill. It feels a bit like it's coming full circle.