Adding on to our house

Remember when I said we were going to sell our house? Never mind all that. Building and addition, that is the cool thing to do.

We have already drawn up our plans and got a building permit. Now to just start the work. We'll be taking our existing car port and patio which are a attached to our house, digging a crawlspace and building a master bed and bathroom. This will basically make our house 150% the size it is now, which will be awesome. Lucy is already really excited to move into our room. We asked "Lucy, do you want a bigger room?" and she excitedly nodded her head "YEAH!"

Planning on starting tearing tearing out all the concrete and building a new foundation starting sometime in the middle of the month. Luckily I know a really awesome contractor.

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