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Day 1

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And day one has begun and ended kind of fast today.  It began with a bobcat and a small bulldozer being moved into my yard.  Those 2 vehicles instantly ripped up the grass in the back, on the sideyard, and caused deep ruts in the front yard.  It makes me sick to look out at my destroyed yard.  We got into a disagreement with the diggers today because they wanted us to remove our garden boxes so they could put their dirt there.  That was not in our plans.  That is were we put all of our stuff for storage.  We didn't want to have the garden destroyed.  We compromised by removing 4 of the garden boxes and moving the swingset and most of the stuff over to the side yard.  We wanted them to leave the other 4 boxes alone.  They began digging just a small portion of the foundation by the side of our house, but, then stopped digging after a couple of hours.  They are worried about a rain/snow storm that is predicted this week and they don't ...
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Our last Goodbyes

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We said our last Goodbyes to the back of our house and our backyard as we know it.  It is really hard to see all of these things change because we have lived here for the past 17 years.  Part of the changes include loosing all of my windows in the back except for my bedroom bay windows.  This is hard because I have enjoyed having our bay in our kitchen and being able to look out and see the trees and the mountains.  My cat is going to miss it too because that is one of her favorite things to do is look out the windows. As part of our preparation for the construction, we took down our side fence and cut down our lilac bush in front.  We moved everything from around the porch into the garden.  We also dismantled the play center and slide and put it in the garden and moved the swingset into the garden.  My kids are probably the most upset about not having their swingset and their running trail in the grass.  Goodbye old yard!  :`( ...
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Finally Approved

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After months of planning and replanning, trying to find funding, interviewing builders, contractors, subcontractors, and then submitting our plan to the city and waiting, waiting, waiting, and some more waiting, our home addition plan was finally approved and we received our permit!!! We have lived in our current house for 17 years.  I never thought we would still be here.  We actually tried to move last year and build a new house that would have had a mil addition for my parents so that we could help my Dad better after he had his stroke.  The funding fell through on our new house and I thought my world had come to an end because I didn't know how to help my parents.  Little did I know that God had a plan in place.  In January of last year my Dad passed away--our new house wouldn't have even been started until March or April of last year and it would have all been for nothing because my Dad was gone.  I felt grateful that the new house plan fell through....
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