- This is our family
and this is backyard that we've been living in.
It's beautiful there's red rocks up there.
And we've been staying in this home
and I'm sure a lot of you have noticed
that we don't live in Kaysville, Utah anymore.
The place where we got keys to the city, we moved.
This place right now that we're living in
is just our rental home,
it's a temporary place because we have exciting news
that we're gonna show you in this video.
But what's going on?
- We are building a house.
- A house? - A house.
- [Dad] A house that she designed.
- With your help.
- With my help too, we are gonna go and show you
the lot for the first time because as of two days ago
we officially have the loan for the construction
and now we can build the house.
They just poured the foundation yesterday,
they're moving crazy fast.
We wanna show you the foundation then you guys can
let us know during the process,
do you want us to continue showing you the house build,
and what's going on?
Let's get to the house.
Okay, we made it to the lot
and one thing I wanna point out first,
this street right here is the main road coming in
and it's tree-lined.
The lot is right around the corner, there's been
a little bit of work that's been done on it
and none of the kids have seen it yet.
Guys come on over, let's take a look at the house.
- Whoa!
What, there's like an entire foundation.
The whole thing is covered in cement.
- [Dad] Go check it out.
(upbeat music)
This is the front door where everybody's standing.
- Entryway, walk in, on the right
is the piano room, office area.
On the left is a wall.
This is a great room so this is like the family room
where we all hang out with the fireplace, the TV.
And then big windows to go outside and play, and kitchen.
- When you first walk in the door, you're gonna be able
to see out of these really tall windows.
It's gonna be a wall of windows.
You can see this mountain out here,
this mountain's called Pine Valley Mountain,
and it's beautiful.
We wanted to make sure that we maintained that view,
and then a swimming pool right along this stretch.
Guys, what do you think?
Lincoln, what do you think about the main room?
- Um, I, ooh!
(scary music)
- [Dad] Whoa!
Look at this,
what is it?
(children giggle)
We have ghosts in our house! It's already haunted!
- [Mom] No!
- [Dad] Oh man!
- [Mom] It's gonna have great energy.
- [Dad] Why is it haunted?
- This is my room
- [Dad] This is your room, you're right, first try.
- This is your closet, right here.
- Somewhere inside of the closet there's going to be what?
A ladder or stairs?
- It's gonna be a ladder. - A ladder.
- And, you go all the way to the top and not only does it
take up this room, the bonus, it's like a bunk room,
kind of like a bonus room.
It takes up this space and about his bathroom.
- [Dad] That's a room big enough for all
of your stuffed animals.
- Yes, and your shoes.
- That's the room London needs.
- [Dad] London, tell us about your room, this is your room.
Say, "This is my room, this is where I put
"all of my dreams and wishes."
- What?
- [Dad] Okay, Claire.
- And now, this is my room.
- This is Claire's room. - Yay!
- [Dad] What's something special about your room?
- I have a big closet.
- Yes, and something else that's special about her room
is right here are some windows
and the swimming pool is right there.
So Claire is the only room that has views
of the swimming pool.
- So, right here there's like a little patio thing.
- [Dad] Yeah, this will be a covered patio.
- So then there's the pool and come right here
and this is gonna be like the office.
- [Dad] This is like a separate looking house right here.
This is going to be our office or,
when we sell this house someday,
this will be the pool house.
The wall right here should all the way open up
and you could look out to the pool, again, the pool.
I really have always wanted a pool at my house.
Okay, backyard, you gotta have some vision here.
I'm gonna walk all the way to the end,
and then Leslie's gonna tell us,
how far, where do I stop?
- [Leslie] Stop right there!
- Right there.
Okay, so the pool's gonna start right here.
- There's the hot tub right here that's raised up,
and some places that the kids can jump off of.
- Okay, cool. - So, they're gonna jump.
- [Dad] The pool is going all the way to there, guys.
You can swim laps. - Whoa, that's huge!
- Where'd the dog go?
Hey dog, go poop on our neighbors yard.
- [Leslie] No.
- [Dad] Do it, what, no?
- She went pee on Rachel's, I mean.
- She went pee on their lot! - Don't say that!
- She didn't Rachel. - She did, I saw her.
- [Dad] It's not gonna be the last time she poops
on a neighbors lot.
- (laughing) No, it's not.
- If any of our neighbors are watching this,
get ready, our dog's gonna poop
all over your lawn. - No!
- And then what is this room right here?
- This is the master bedroom and so this has like doors
leading out to the pool.
It has like a little sitting area,
pretty good sized bathroom.
- There's a dog!
And the all-important garage.
So we've gotta a three car garage, right here,
that will have Tesla charging stations on the walls.
I have three Tesla chargers that are signed by Elon Musk.
They're each going in the garage.
So we probably will have an RV garage right there.
So once we get the Tesla Roadster,
the 2020 next-generation Roadster,
we're gonna put it in our RV garage probably.
Here's some footage from when Leslie and I
were here a week ago.
We came here without the kids and we were just looking
at the dirt when they staked it out with some of the flags.
All right, Leslie what's happening today?
This is an exciting day, this is our first step
of property ownership.
- We get to see what the house looks like, staked out.
- My brother-in-law, Brandon, he is a surveyor.
His job is to come out with a laser
and laser everything out and put markers down everywhere.
- All we've seen is dirt and now we get to see
really how big the house is and how it fits on the property.
So this is a big moment and it's the first time,
we thought we'd show you guys 'cause its the first time,
I've seen it, Leslie hasn't seen it yet.
- Can you show them the pretty flowers though?
- [Dad] The pretty flowers?
- The spring Cherry Blossoms are happening right now,
they'll only be here for like 5 days
so look how gorgeous. - That is pretty.
Alright, this is the moment, let's check out your lot.
- Have you seen it? - Yeah, I came out already.
- Oh. - Yeah, I already came out.
- Did Lincoln see it? Oh my gosh.
- This is the lot right here.
The front door's probably right here,
maybe, maybe a little further.
- I just want it to be done.
- [Dad] (laughs) You have just started!
- [Dad] We just bought this thing a week ago!
- I know, but we've been waiting for like eight months.
- [Dad] So why'd you build such a big house?
- It looks bigger that what it really is.
It's a single-storey house though,
so even though it looks really big,
a lot of people do basements or they do a second storey,
we wanted everything on one level.
- When we're older and you don't wanna
go up and down stairs, and then also for my niece
that is in a wheelchair, we want her to be able to go
in pretty much everywhere in the house and be wheeled there,
and so single-level home makes sense.
I mean, all the kids have their own rooms,
they're spoiled, should've all bunked up.
- Seriously! - Three kids in one room.
We've never built a house where we've picked every thing
from the layout, to the design, to where the rooms go,
to where the landscaping goes.
Every single decision, there's no other house
in the world like this one.
We still have many more decisions to choose,
like which appliances to use, what the walls are gonna
look like and everything like that.
We do have a builder, Christensen Builders,
these guys are awesome
and they've been helping us along the way.
It's like a husband and a wife that are
the designer and the builder themselves.
So it helps for novices like us that don't know
what the heck we're doing.
Follow Leslie on Instagram AKINLANE,
she's gonna be posting more of the different pictures
and different questions of things that we're posting.
And also, just let us know in the comments as we move along,
what things you think we should, or shouldn't do.
What's your Instagram so they can follow you
and see pictures of your house?
- I didn't think you were gonna do that but
it's AKINLANE, so it stands for Alaska Inside Lane
because I'm from Alaska.
A-K-I-N lane.
- [Dad] What's the lane for?
- I just didn't want it to be,
I didn't know what else to do.
I wanted akin, but there was very limited.
I always wanted to live on a road that was called lane
instead of road.
- Follow her.
Get ready for some crazy house-building stuff,
along with our other stuff,
this isn't gonna be house-building channel forever,
but we're gonna post a few things.
There goes George, George the ghost.
Wow, the ghost is real.
- [Dad] Show me your first cartwheel on the garage.
Wooh!