I was driving my white VW Passat, with a one year old Karoline in the back seat. We had just gotten done swimming at my friend's parent's house on Dalmatian Drive. I approached the intersection of the two cut-de-sac's and I looked to my right. There was one last little lot left in the neighborhood and I wondered, why hasn't that lot sold?
Fast forward and I can now see that God had reserved that lot for us! We bought that last little lot on Dalmatian Drive with the plan to build a house and sell it. The time has come for that plan to become a reality. We lived in this house a bit longer than we ever thought we would, and yet the plan has always been the same. This house was intended to be and is our stepping stone.
Like the song says, you can't buy happiness, but you can buy dirt and that's what we plan to do. We are very hopeful to buy a few acres. We need, "Wide Open Spaces," so many song ref
erences. We dream of a forever home, Tim's shop with plenty of room for all of his trailers and future heavy duty equipment, a garden, chickens, an orchard, a putting green, and maybe even one day a pool.
While all of that sounds lovely, our ultimate goal is to owe no man anything. When we left Westminster we set out with this goal in mind, it guided the purchase of our land on Dalmatian Drive, hoping and praying that this land would be the land that would allow us to leap frog in our goal.
We LOVE this house, the location is lovely and I got to live out my childhood dream of living in a tree house.
I was asked if I am sad to leave the home we built, and without hesitation I responded, "Nope." I am so thankful for the mindset of knowing this is a choice, this is something we GET to do. We do not have to sell this house, we do not have to move. We WANT to move.
What's in store for us? Well, Lord willing, it will be a year of living in a camper on our land while we all work together to build our house. We are so very excited for this opportunity. Stay tuned, we plan to share the progress on our YouTube channel: @2one4life!
A special thank you to Carla Braddy and her team for making our house look as incredible as we have always felt it is. Photo credits to Aaron Garcia of Yellow Drone Media LLC. The listing of our home: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/523-Dalmatian-Dr-Canon-City-CO-81212/218699827_zpid/