Permits!!!

Kootenai County has finally graced us with their permission to begin building our home. As you might imagine, Heidi, Elise, and I are quite excited about getting things going. It has been a long and arduous process up to this point dealing with engineers, architects, the builder, and Kootenai County. It will be nice to be able to see physical progress on the site. Keep checking back in. We'll be knee deep in this thing before to long.

English Point Hike

Elise and I went for a hike this morning out at English Point. It has been rainy here so it was nice to get outside. I got a good shot of Elise checking out a centipede that we found on the trail. Brewster and Wyatt had fun chasing deer.

Easter at the Schumacher's

We spent Easter Sunday over at Russ and Penny's this year. Amy, Blaise, Chase, and Grace were up to Fernan visiting from San Francisco. All the cousins had a ton of fun hanging out with each other. Shown here is Elise and her new Easter dress, the kids digging for worms in Grandman and Grandpa's yard, dinner at the kid's table, and the aftermath of the afternoon in the driveway. Happy Easter!!

Waiting for permits

Here's a few pics of the engineering plan for the driveway up to the house if you can make it out. We have submitted all our plans to the county and have been waiting for about a week now. They are still about a week and a half out so we will continue to wait patiently.

April Snowman

I thought it was supposed to be Spring already.

The weather has kept our activities at a pretty low level these days. It's been raining a ton but thankfully today we were able to get outside a bit so Heidi, Elise, and I headed down to Hayden Lake and fed the ducks. Can't wait for summer!!

House Progress

It looks like we are finally going to be submitting for our building permits with Kootenai County tomorrow. I spoke with our Engineer today at Lake City Engineering and he had just completed the site disturbance package which is required to be submitted for properties situated on steep slopes such as ours. The purpose of the package is to plan for drainage and erosion controls during construction and requires engineering. It seems like it's taken some time to finally get to this point and we are hopefull for a quick turnaround at the county. Once permits are issued, we'll get scheduling figured out for breaking ground. If all goes well, we are looking at the middle of April to get things going. That's the latest and greatest.