Angela Lollar

Welcome To The Neighborhood!!

They're finally here!  Erika and Zsolt started moving in last night!  Welcome to the hood guys.  May our unfinished houses be done soon! 

Moving OUT and Building UP!

Moving OUT should be self explanatory. The boxes are packed.

Building UP - We should FINALLY be making some real visible progress this weekend in alot of areas.  The email update this morning was that they were pouring the basement today, the lumber pack is being delivered tomorrow and framing should start this weekend. The house will now be taking shape and the hole that I've been staring at for weeks now will start moving UP!  Once the walls go up, I'll feel like we're getting somewhere.

Our current house is packed and ready for the movers this weekend and we'll be saying good-bye to our little house.  It's still a bit surreal for me to believe this is all really happening and I've got alot of mixed emotions about it.  I had a tearful day this past weekend packing up the girls room.  This was the safe place that we created for them.  It was were we first brought them home from the hospital.  I've seen them staring at the walls and noticing the absence of all the monkey's they are used to looking at.  I think they are aware that something is happening and I'm sure they are a little confused by all the sudden changes, but they'll understand soon enough once we're settled in to the new place in a few months.  The monkey's will be back up soon girls, and mommy and daddy are building a NEW safe place just for you!  Just be glad that while you're staying in my old room at Gigi's house that you're not staring at WEED-MEN!  (Shout out there to my sissy. And thank you that I won't be staring at yellow daisies!)

"Sacrifice is giving up something great for something even better."  These were the same words that helped me when I left my condo to move in with my then boyfriend, Phill.  Now HUSBAND Phill and I lean on these same set of words as we leave our home, our friends, our neighborhood and our past and take our really big step towards to our future. We're ready for it!

It's been a great house and served its many purposes over the last eight years.  It was Phill's first home, it was the foundation for his bromance with boy BFF/roommate Aaron, it was where we first lived together and where we were married and brought home our children.  But the new house is going to be where our family grows.  Where we make new friends, where we'll all be taking our first steps in the front door equally and the place all of us will invest in to make it our home.

It's a busy weekend ahead for us, so wish us luck! 

Watching Our Little World Changing

Since I'm off of work today and Ashley is back in daycare after her sick day yesterday, I'm planning on utilizing today and next Friday to work on packing up the house.  We've hired movers for Sunday, February 14th.  Happy Valentines Day!  We'll be homeless!  Our renters move in to the Villages at Buffalo Run house on March 1st.  As for us Lollars, we move in with my parents, Gigi and Big Daddy.  Mom is so worried that by the end of our stay (which should be about June) that we'll all hate each other, but I have higher hopes that won't happen.

So while we are "Waiting On The World To Change", we continue to do our daily drive-by's of the house on Helena Street to check out the progress!

Since my last blog they've done ALOT!  They have dug the hole, poured the foundation and today they are back filling and prepping for the next steps which are to finish up the underground plumbing and puring the concrete floor of the basement and garage.  After that, we'll start watching it grow UP from the hole into the framing!  (It's so nice to be married to a General Contractor that can make me sound so educated about building!!)

On my drive-by this morning after taking the girls to daycare, I took these pictures of the progress.  Part of the appeal to this house is that the 3-car garage is large enough for extra space dedicated just to Phill's tools, Warthog can fit INSIDE instead of outside on the driveway and I still get plenty of room to park Cliff the Ford Edge/mommy mobile/NO...I WILL NEVER GET A MINIVAN daily driver all inside.  I'm impressed to see that in it's current state, the garage is also large enough to house a Caterpillar 938G Wheel Loader!