This may come as a surprise to most of friends and neighbors, and even many family members: We are building a new home. When we purchased our Stansbury home six years ago we had the vision of staying in it for around 5-10 years and with rates being so low right now we've felt like the time is right. For the last year or two we've kept our eyes on the housing market, but only more seriously during the last six months or so. Unable to find what we wanted (particularly a big yard), we've decided to build a custom home. BTW, it is really hard to find lots larger than .25 acre in the Salt Lake area. After several months of looking, we fell in love with a lot in Farmington and even got in a bidding war over it on my birthday of all days (not such a fun way to spend a b-day).
Why Farmington, you may ask? As much as we've enjoyed our neighborhood in Stansbury Park, we've always felt a bit isolated from family and shopping. We lived for a short time in the Bountiful area before purchasing our home and really loved Davis county. We are so excited to be moving back to the area and love the small town feel that Farmington provides. It seems like a special place to be so close to the city, but still having a country feel. The schools there are some of the best in the state, and it has also been rated as number 12 of the top 100 places to live in the US (link). We also love that it will cut our drive to Cache Valley down by almost half.
We are excited about the amazing view from our future deck of the mountains and are also looking forward to not having backyard neighbors . . . well except for this cow and buffalo who live in the pasture behind our future house. lol
We've been finalizing our building plans over the last few months and are now waiting for our permit. We should be breaking ground sometime in February and will most likely be in the new home in May. We are also hoping to have our Stansbury house on the market sometime next month.
We've had a very difficult time over the last two years dealing with infertility. We're excited to have a new project to focus on to help take our minds off of all the disappointment and heartache we've felt. I like to joke that "if we build it, they will come." We hope and pray it will be a home we can fill with many more little feet.
