on to the next chapter

i would like to take this time and thank everyone for their support and comments of congrats on my last post. thanks for almost a year of whining, complaining, begging, pleading and feel sorry for me posts. its funny how everything works itself out. while talking to mike about the numbers {why are men always about the numbers?} for the stratton house (house to be built), he figured that if we used all of our equity as a down payment, our mortgage payments will be exactly the highest amount we wanted to go and i mean to the T. makes me wonder who's in charge here. the other good news is that we had the builder quote us high so it could actually be cheaper. right now i'm waiting for approval from the home owners association that our house is good enough to be built on their lots. they, like most places, require 1800 sq. feet if its a ranch. ours will be a little over 1600 not including the finished basement. finished basement will add another 800+. and if your as nosey as i am here's what the stratton house will look like. and this is the layout. of course i have modifications that need to be made. but i will share those along the way. this weekend there are 4 houses to be seen. this one is high on the list. if this one doesn't work out, i'm pretty much ready to build. it doesn't have a pool but the yard looks big enough to hold one. and if you cant tell, i'm as giddy as a high school girl going to see the jonas brothers. or are they too young for high school girls...back in my day i got giddy over depeche mode...still do....man, i'm old.