Picking our first home- Part 1

Our home back in May

     Enoch and I had been actively looking for a good area to buy a home since we got to Texas in December. We then had to decide if we wanted to build a new home or purchase one already on the market. Well, after looking and praying for months,  we found the area, Alamo Ranch. In April we found the home we felt was best for our family. We decided to build our home from the ground up and embark on the home buying process. We picked a land lot that would provide a decent size backyard for our Melany and future kiddos(No I am not pregnant). We wanted to get a house with a big kitchen since I love to cook.
     And  of course, we had to find one with an affordable price range. We picked a simple model for the area, as Alamo Ranch has very fancy schmancy homes with pretty big price tags. These fancy homes are decorated with plenty of "extras" like granite counter tops, tile flooring, covered patios, etc..
Our home inside has carpet, which we plan to change to hardwood in the future, and has regular simple counter tops, which we also plan to upgrade as well. During the months the home was being built, the house went up $6,000! We had locked in the price so it was pretty cool to know our house was already worth more than what we got it for.
     Our home is very spacious, and we feel we got a good bang for our buck. We paid way less than those homes around us. But we did not upgrade to all the "extra" things because these "extras" get rolled in to the buyers mortgage. The thought of paying for granite counter tops for 30 years was not appealing.
        Instead, we plan to do fun "home improvements" and DIY projects in the future ourselves. Enoch and I are made for each other in this sense, because we are avid home improvement junkies. We enjoy fixing stuff and improving things around the house (I know, kinda weird). He is the "handy man" and I am the "designer" wannabe in the house. Haha....

The foundation to our home-placed in April

The skeleton