HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

HOME is where the heart is and we are proud that we choose to raise our family out in Western Colorado. We moved to Montrose, CO from Wisconsin in 2003.
Can you believe it has been 6 years already?
It doesn’t seem possible! Yet, all things are possible, right?

Our new Chapter in Colorado… well, we moved here and rented a new home for one year, then bought a home in a subdivision and about a year and a half later bought 21 acres & sold our home with plans to build. We then rented again (same house we originally lived in when we first moved out here!) and then FINALLY built our dream home. We started building our home around May of 2007 and completed in October of 2008. Completed to the point of moving in… we continue to work til this day, but lived without interior floor coverings and interiors doors til Spring of 2009.

The above wasn’t easy either! We struggled and pulled out teeth to do what we did. We were lucky we had awesome landlords that are now are good friends while we were renting and we had found another couple that allowed us to have our land “owner financed” for one year & made payments to them while paying our mortgage and then rent. We didn’t give up and that is what brought us to where we are today. (deeper in debt and sleep deprived!) Building wasn’t easy and we can now say that we’ll never ever do that again! All the blood, sweat and tears I can live without! Ha. wish I was kidding, but we still wouldn’t change a thing – we love the home we built and our proud of what we accomplished.

Things have changed considerably from the day we started construction til now. (almost 2010.) Loans are near impossible to obtain especially when self employment income is involved and we still have not been able to secure permanent financing. We are listing our home up for sale by a realtor. This is not ideal by any means, but it is what needs to be done and we just hope for another “miracle” to come along and we can stay in our home we built as planned. But, if it was meant to be, it was meant to be… right? Time Will Tell and The Rest Is Still Unwritten!

I do enjoy Montrose for the most part. It has changed soooo much in the time we’ve been here and has really grown, but we are pleased we made it our home. We now have an Applebee’s, Target, JC Penney, Sports Authority, Cold Stone Creamery, Rib City Grill, Pancheros, Chili’s. I’m sure there has been more since we’ve been here, but those are the main ones with rumors of more to come! Like an Olive Garden….yum! What I wish we’d really get is an updated movie theatre!!! So, yeah, I guess we basically SHOP and EAT. HA. No really, you can’t beat the MOUNTAIN AIR and VIEWS… this is why the state is sometimes referred as COLORFUL COLORADO. And the Western Slope – better yet! We are surrounded by views & good people.

We hope you enjoy this web-site and we look forward to updating it at LEAST once a week is my goal. The photos may vary – I LOVE to digital scrap and CREATE graphical elements (of course!) around some photos!

So, check back often! OKAY?!