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...

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...