Out of the Box...Or Maybe In It

Well, I was in the process of putting together this great video with music and everything...it was so funny. In my mind it was a work of art. BUT, when I got to the adding music part it wouldn't work and then I saved the project to work on later. Well, when I reopened it, it was all messed up... So, a few pictures and descriptions will have to do!



As I already said - the Potts are moving. Not right away but fairly soon. Here's the deal. For really our entire marriage, we have dreamed of raising our children in the country where we could work together outdoors, raise animals, ride horses, and just enjoy nature...Some of you know we bought a few acres in College Station before realizing that God had different plans! We were sad to leave that land have been incredibly thankful that God did not allow us to build on it, because now it is so clear that this is where He intended us to be. So...to make a long story short, we looked and looked for land that was close by the New Braunfels/San Marcos area and affordable and enough land to do what we wanted. Oh, and it had to have nice trees and good dirt too.





It turned out that what we were looking for happened to be in the backyard! Well, not ours - my parents! My parents live on about 80 acres and have offered us about 8 acres on one end for quite awhile. We knew it would be a permanent decision and if you know us, we don't make decisions quickly - but after much prayer, lots of talks and various events, we realized that this was just where we needed to be. Some have wondered why we didn't realize why we didn't figure this out sooner :) We are incredibly grateful for this opportunity to live so close by our family and to have a gorgeous piece of land to build on, with even more land next door that we are able to enjoy with those we love dearly. At first it seemed a little bizarre - I mean my sister ives on the other end, my parents in the middle and now us too. Like a commune, right! :)





But you know what? We love these people and we enjoy the 'village effort' of living life together. We love the interactions and the way that we help each other's families and feel very blessed to have a family that we are so close to that we truly will love being next door neighbors!





So, that brings me to the next part of the news - the video clip (which was going to be put to the tune of Green Acres :) ) I was making was of last Monday when our house moved in. It had such great footage, with my very favorite cowboy :)

That's right we are moving...

From This...

To This!

The plan is to live in the mobile for a little while and then build our home in a year or so. The beauty of this plan is:

*We have an amazing view (pics soon)
*We will save LOTS of money for awhile
*We can move the home to one of Zach's properties after we are done living in it and actually make a small profit rather than losing years of rent money while we build
*SIMPLICITY (in more ways than I can begin to list for soooo many reasons)


It may be a little cramped, especially with very possibly soon being a family of SEVEN, but hey, great bonding times!!! And would you believe that it actually is about 2000 sq feet - that is really pretty big.

So, we are very excited and wanted to share!