Sold Mine!

The Terrell's are officially moving....in the fall! We have been searching tirelessly for the past year all over the metroplex for a little place to call our own and finally found a place where we can put down roots. That little place is Trophy Club. Located just south of Denton and north of Southlake, Trophy Club is totally accessible to everything we need: shopping, restaurants, and friends! The Clarks, Vaughns and Jankowskis are going to be seeing a lot more of us. Our neighborhood is also a few feet away from Lake Grapevine....Yea for lake days!!

We knew we wanted a custom home and we just seemed to click with Ranchera Homes (based out of Austin) so we signed on the dotted line. Casa de Terrell should be ready for visitors at the end of November!

Our lot is located in Churchill Downs which is adjacent to corp of engineer land. That means that we will never ever ever have neighbors behind our house! Just lots and lots of trees, animals (armadillos, coyotes, snakes, hogs, and more) and water. Plus there is a park being built across the street as well as a dirt bike park, horse trails and a place to put our boat in all within 1 minute of our house! We are so excited that we have already started clearing some of the dead limbs ourself...well Kelly did and I supervised. About 100 yards behind our house, we stumbled on upon a finger of Lake Grapevine. Kelly named the part directly behind our house "Dead Man's Bend" as it is a nice bend in the river. We get a great view of the water!

Kelly and I loved exploring it. However I was a nervous nelly and did not do quite as much exploring as Kelly did. Here you can see Kelly at "Dead Man's Bend" in his nice snake boots. Good thing he wore them because the first creature we saw was a water moccasin taking a swim in the water. Needless to say, I was super alert then and didn't stay too long at the water. I am now shopping for snake boots! The only other animal we saw was an armadillo but we saw hog tracks, deer tracks, and horse poop - there is a riding trail behind our house too!

A little Arizona in our backyard. What beautiful blooms on the cactus!

When we first started looking at this lot, there were 4 houses on the street. Now almost all the lots on the southside of the street have houses on them. K Hovanian (booooo!) came in and bought a lot of lots from Flozell Adams (former Cowboy) who owned about half of the lots in our 'hood. Lots of contruction going on!

When we were flying back from Alaska, we flew over our house and Kelly noticed that they had grated our land. So we drove out the next day and this is what we saw. We are so excited!!!

I do feel a little bad for the guys building the house...it is way too hot to be outside! The below picture is from the back part of our house looking toward the street. This picture was taken on June 19. Notice that they have started construction directly across from us. We have neighbors on all sides now.

When we drove back out on June 27, we were so excited. Lots of progress being made! Now all we need are the permits and they can start pouring the slab and getting the frame work going.

Just what we always wanted...a dumpster! This means serious business.

The below picture is from the back of the house looking at the bay windows of the breakfast nook. It is getting really exciting!

Also, if you look across the street in the top left of the picture, you will see the house that is being built directly across the street. Look how fast it is going up. It has only been 8 days!

We are so excited to build a home together. Lots of memories to be made here!

Now we just have to get our Arlington house ready to be sold...anyone need a house?