That’s not huge? Hmmmmmm
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I live in a 1500 sqft house and say it’s to big. Then I have the same size garage and need it to be four times bigger 
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Me too, and its plenty big, but we don’t have 3 kids. I grew up in a 1200 sf house and and there were 5 of us for few years till my sister moved out.
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I grew up in a small house with 8 kids. My wife a little bigger house but with 10 kids. Even with the house overflowing with just our family somehow we always ended up with another 2-3 extras. My wife’s family was the same. Maybe we are just over compensating a bit? 
. Part of it is a mother in law apartment and 800sf of it is a bonus room over the garage. Our last house was 3100 sf and without the bonus room the two houses are pretty similar size. My sister and her family are in the foreign service and they usually stay with us for a couple of months in the summer for their required time in country.
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it does make a big difference when there is only two people… hey, you guys have to live there right? can’t wait to see it finished! feel free to put my room in the garage,
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So how close is this new house to your ski slope? The mountains look pretty far away in the pics…
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45 min from my porch to the lodge. 10 min to the mouth of the canyon.
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The mountains in the pic are to the east and are the farthest away from us. We live closer to the mountains on the south end and closest to the mountains on the west.
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Before the '50s housing boom, the average house side was under 1,000sq ft. And that was with 4 kids 
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You know more than 2 is a litter right?
I finally took the last step in becoming an adult in 2019 and bought my first house. For me it was apartments with roommates, or the ex wife’s 800sf house. The last 4 years I had a 2 bed apartment (that turned section 8 a month after I moved in). It was more like a climate controlled storage unit with plumbing for as often as I was home.
The house I bought is a 3 bed 4200sf w/3 car garage. The GF and her two daughters moved in at the same time and they were in the same living conditions (tiny apartment) for all their lives. 2 teenage girls sharing a 15x10 +/- room. Two twin beds and a couple wardrobes to divide the room. Then they each got a 15x15 +/- room to themselves.
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Foundation walls poured last week. Loader showed up today to start backfilling tomorrow.
Kids are going to lose their perch for watching the construction.
I suppose I should have built an observation tower for them before we started construction. 
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You know, it looks like a good location for bleachers. The field in the background is screaming for a baseball diamond “Build it and they will come!” 
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I’m guessing that’s a basement. Are you going standard height, or you going to try to raise that first level floor up so you have an 8 ft ceiling in the basement?
No basement, the water table is too high. It is a slab on grade. foundation walls were just to get it to frost depth. Also the septic system is an at grade system so I also needed additional height to get enough slope for the plumbing out to the tank. They dug deeper than they needed to. I wanted to do an insulated slab and do a mat foundation, so we didn’t have to go down to frost depth, but I don’t think the contractor was that familiar with it.
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Pouring the house floor slab this morning, garage tomorrow.
Framing starts near the end of the week.
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Love those photos Erik!
This is my favorite:
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Were you able to get your kids’ footprints or handprints in the concrete? Your kids’ kids will love it! (So will grandma and grandpa)
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I knew I recognized that picture of those kids. That is a 3D printed model that you just move around! Busted!!!
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That’s awesome Jim!
Kids are going to LOVE it!
The oldest is so excited for Halloween!
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