Wow!! Not long now!!

Not long now.  Count down is down to less than a week left! We have found out one fantastic thing though.  We are getting to go to a much larger house and even more important, more land!!  Wahooooo!  Scott's uncle has a house that he has decided to sell and we will be purchasing it.  We are so excited!! It will give us plenty of room for the kids (our dogs!!), our garden and one day for a horse or two, and maybe some water buffalo. Water buffalo are a totally whole different story I will tell one day!!  There is a reason to have them!! (Mainly for milk ... long story short!!)

It is a good thing we purchased the garden tractor we did as we will have 13 acres to tend to now!! We cannot believe it as our dream was to always own 10 acres!!  So God has prevailed and given us a tad bit more than what we have always wanted! It will give us more land to become more self sustaining at some point. We will always need to purchase some things (like meat ... I cannot kill something I raise!! Too much of an animal lover!!) but we would love to be as self sustaining as we can. It would be a wonderful thing!!  And fresh vegetables taste so much better than what you purchase at the store.  I had forgotten how good home grown tomatoes were until a couple years ago when I first started with just tomatoes.  And my garden has grown each year. I hope to have a very nice sized garden this year!! I think we will be doing the square foot gardening though. Give it a try and see how it works out.  I cannot wait to have all the yummy veggies we have chosen and fresh herbs from my herb garden!! I am quite excited with the prospect of learning to cook with fresh herbs and the herbs coming from my own garden!! I have never grown herbs before (except some lemon balm and chocolate mint!!) so it will be interesting!! :)

The house is huge too.  It is a 6,000 square foot house. PLENTY of room for the kids and anything/one that comes to our house!! LOL  Plus the really exciting thing for me is that I will get the chance to sponsor family get togethers now!! I didn't think about it until Scott said something about it and that made me totally excited!! We have never lived around family so never got the chance to sponsor a full family get together. So it will be so much fun to do that one holiday or summer get togethers!! Fun, Fun, Fun!!  And if my family comes to visit, we have TONS of space for everyone to stay at our house and be quite comfortable!! What an exciting thing to think about!  What a wonderful blessing!!

So that is the big awesome news for the moment!  As soon as we get there and get semi-settled, I will post tons of pictures of our place. And of family!  Will be tons of pictures! I love to take pictures and post them. And there will be so much to take pics of out there!! LOL And I am sure there will be tons of stories too ...  I look forward to participating and passing them on!! << wink wink >>