Bye Bye House

Today has been a pretty busy day.  In true Parris fashion, we closed on the house/loan at 11 am, had lunch around noon, and made it to the house just in time to watch it all come down around 12:45.  We only waited 45 minutes for the ink to dry before we started construction and technically the loan funded around 2:45 pm so we were a little too quick to tear the place down.   The house we live in now, we got the call that the loan had officially funded at 4:30 pm and by 5 pm we were taking a wall down. I guess you could say we like to move quickly once we have a plan.

We really put on a show for our new neighbors.  We have told the neighbors close to the house what our plans are but we didn't really give them an exact start date since we have been waiting on the bank all week.  So today when the bulldozer showed up, I think everyone was waiting on the show to start.  We got to meet a few neighbors we haven't seen before and we all stood around and watched.    We both feel so lucky to be moving back into a neighborhood we love and to be surrounded with great understanding neighbors.  Construction next door is not an easy situation and we have been really lucky to have neighbors who understand the process. My Dad has a better video from start to finish that I will try and post tomorrow. Until then, enjoy this short clip: