Well I haven't posted in a while because we've been a little... busy. We ended up moving into my inlaws' house for the time being while we plan to build next summer. Right now we're trying to finish prepping our old house for the new lease tenants. Hopefully we'll have all that figured out soon so I can start planning for the trip we're going on next week- home to California! And MAYBE when I get back from the trip I can start focusing on having this baby... I am in my third trimester now and all.
Needless to say moving takes a toll on pregnant women, and I've been feeling all the craziness. It doesn't help that even though Jax had a few days of his normal 3 hour nap, ever since he's had HORRIBLE naps. I know one of his molars is coming in, and with the changing environment... I don't know, it really wears me out. Sorry this post is so short, my kid just woke up from ANOTHER horribly short nap. ://///
Emily
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Us Crazy Hippies
So remember how our plan was to pick up and move to San Francisco? Well after much prayer and research, and entertaining NUMEROUS scenarios, we've decided to build a house, probably in Summit County. This way Josh can attend either BYU or the U of U, and we can be in a permanent situation. Here's the kicker, we're building our home out of earthbags...
Basically it's an extremely sustainable, durable, and efficient natural building method used all over the world. It's becoming more popular in the U.S. as building codes consider sustainable buildings.
So we're moving in to my in-laws in two weeks and will be preparing ourselves to build this home ourselves next summer! Here's the plans we've decided on.
The great thing about this plan is that it's designed to be extremely energy efficient. It utilizes passive solar energy and is extremely insulated. It's also geared to be totally ideal to convert to a completely solar house. Oh, did I mention these things are extremely cheap to build? And they're more stable, insulated, and weather resistant than traditional stick built homes. Awesome, right? Oh, and it takes a very low skill level to build these, which is great because we're doing it ourselves. Our friends and family may receive invitations to help next summer, we do have a building window before the snow comes... So right now I'm doing all kinds of research and budgeting, I figure the more I know the better. Some days I get really overwhelmed with it, but last night I felt a lot of reassurance from Heavenly Father. Hey, if He can help Nephi build a ship to cross the ocean, He can help Josh and I build an earthbag house in a summer, right? Right.
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