This sounds like a good plan. Enjoy the wheelbuild. I recommend Sheldon Brown's guide. There are lots of good guides out there, that's just what I used and found helpful.
Most of the work comes not in the lacing, but in bringing a wheel up to tension. Spokeprep and a tensionmeter are both useful things to have. (Though I use cheap replacements: respectively, boiled linseed oil, and plucking the spokes to measure tension by tone, as linked in Sheldon's wheelbuilding article.)