It has rained and rained and rained. I think someone forgot to tell the weather that we are a DRY desert. It started raining the last...

October so far has been spent mostly wrapping the house’s exterior and interior. For the exterior, we used 1x2 fencing and the inside was...

September was an eventful month for our family! Here is the cliff notes version: Back in February Mark got what we thought was a bite on...

So far what amazes me the most is how simple most of these jobs are. It is a lot of jobs, but none of them so far are rocket science! We...

It is the 20th of July and I am just finishing the June log and starting July! I can’t even begin to express how busy it has been. It’s...

We are ready to get bales! This is the most exciting part so far. The workshop is set for the 19th & 20th. We took Wednesday the 2nd off...

1,2 & 5 - We put the beams up. On Saturday Leslie showed up to help and we all had a BBQ that night. We ended up getting a late start the...

Underground plumbing and electrical are done and inspected. That was a fairly smooth process except for that it took what seemed like...

We called one of the plumbers to tell him we were ready and what was his schedule like now. He said that he was increasing his bid two to...

Wednesday, Saturday, and Sundays we are “living” at the property in our trailer and working. We have started to “unofficially” prepare...

Holidays are over and everyone is finally back to work! We get the corrected plans to resubmit to the county, but they come back again...

We got the official call from Bob at Canyon National Bank that the loan is ready to fund. Mark and I let out a huge sigh of relief. We...

Michele Bolanos, a friend of ours, recommended Canyon National Bank, a local Native American owned bank that was amazing to work with. We...

Finally, we have completed, engineered plans! We had completely designed the house ourselves but needed someone familiar with the codes...

Tony’s system was a steel-framed structure with straw bale filled walls. Even though it was our first choice, the steel frame was...

The family vacation was planned for this month and we were going to San Francisco. The year before we had gone to Santa Fe, New Mexico...

Now we are looking at plans, researching building types and interviewing architects. By the end of March we had bought a program and...

Still looking....... Realtor called and asked if we were still interested. YES YES YES!!!!!!!

January 2nd we were told that we had been outbid. So back in the car we go to look again. Search, search, search... Everything seems as...

To make a very long story shorter and hopefully not quite so boring, here's the cliff notes version. After completely remolding our...