A very long week.... And we met some of our neighbors!

It's been a long hard week for Jason and me.  One of our shelties, Chase, got super sick in less than 48 hours.  So sick that we had to make the decision to end his suffering.  We have no idea what took him so quickly and there were a lot of complications when he was at the emergency vet on Tuesday night.  So we had to make the decision to say goodbye.  It's been a long hard week because of that.  He was my baby for nearly nine years and Jason knew him for five of those years.  I have so many memories with that sweet boy and my heart is just aching because he was FINE on Sunday and very late Tuesday night we said goodbye.

I know this blog is focusing on our house, and this post is too, but I had to preface it with the loss of our sweet Chase because it lead to the events for the rest of the week.

After a very long day of work on Wednesday, on no sleep and being emotionally drained, we decided to go out to the lot on Wednesday.  And we decided to take our other sheltie, Cody, with us.  We were secretly hoping that MAYBE they had started breaking ground and digging.  But another part of me was secretly hoping it hadn't been started yet.  I was heartbroken at the thought that our little Chase was never going to know his new house.  A house that we built with both him and his brother in mind.  But, I loved the idea of letting our Cody run around on the lot and checking it all out.

And that's just what we did.  Our lot looked just how it had the last time we saw it (at our pre-construction meeting just over a week before).  So we got out, and let Cody run around.  He peed all over the lot.  In the future kitchen, the morning room, the living room, and even in his future back yard!  We had a laugh and made sure he knew that one day the back yard would be the only place he's allowed to actually go potty ;-)

But it was good for all of us.  I haven't even thought much about the fact that they hadn't started digging at that point.  Because we now have a great memory of our Cody enjoying the big open field.

Check out how much he was loving it:

His smile just makes me so very happy.

So, while we were out at the lot there were a couple of other families that have their houses in different phases of the building process checking out their houses.  The guy that will be directly across the street from us came over and chatted with us for probably a good 15-20 minutes.  It was so awesome to meet one of our neighbors!! We discussed lots about our experiences and chatted about ourselves and learned about his family.
They're building a Bateman.  That floorplan will be the only one in our cul-de-sac as it isn't on the "approved" list for the neighborhood.  They were lucky enough that the neighborhood had that lot available and that it fit the house.
Anyways.  He was super nice.  We even discussed that the neighborhood has its own Facebook group! This made me super happy.  I love the whole social media everything.  It's a pretty active group too!  Lots of funny posts, and lots of different neighborhood events going on. Anything from crazy wind storms carrying garden pillows and doormats all over the neighborhood, to having easter egg hunts and an upcoming beer olympics!

I'm excited to see our house get started.  Hopefully that's soon!  And it was great to meet our neighbors too!