So after we bought this property in the fall of 2018 we would go over and hang out at the property on weekends. The kids loved to walk the paths and created a trail clear into the woods where they made a fire pit out of rocks from the creek. Kale was super proud of this area. Emelia loved to work on the stone path down into the creek. Ava helped, but she more just enjoyed the beauty of the property and loved to dream up ideas of where we would build and how it would all look. We spent countless hours....days...laying out where the house would be built and a barn.  Little did we know at the time that we would do things all in reverse. It was May of 2019 and getting close to Mother’s Day. I told Dave that I could envision this spot just up the small hill in the woods as my outdoor oasis where we could walk to from our walk out basement.  It just seemed perfect. It had a path from the walk out and another that led to the fire pit. I pictured lights strung from tree to tree with...