In the beginning....

We are finally into the house building process. There are more pictures on Adam's camera but I'm not sure where it is so they will have to follow. The morning that our concrete guy was due to arrive with the backhoe to start digging, we kept Paige out of school so that we could go as a family and have our own private groundbreaking ceremony. Each of us turned over a shovel-full of dirt and we said a prayer together. I had decided that if it's good enough for a temple groundbreaking, it's good enough for us.

We had told Mark the Concrete Guy to give us a call when he got there with the backhoe but it turned out that he sent Johnny the Concrete Guy's Helper so we didn't get a phone call. We were waiting at my mom in law's house and Adam had gone up to the barn to doctor a calf. He called me to bring him some supplies and as I walked up to the barn I heard this tremendous racket. I looked up and saw the backhoe digging up our hill. I was so excited!

It took a couple of days to dig out the entire basement area. I showed up during day two while the guys were having their lunch break. When I asked how it was going, they said, "Not gonna lie. It's brutal. But that house ain't never gonna settle." Guess that's the benefit of building on a giant pile of rock.

I was lucky enough to show up on day three while the concrete truck was there so I got some action shots. Footings are probably not that exciting to anyone but us but it feels like such an accomplishment to have some proof there that this is actually happening!!

This is how it currently looks out there but probably only for the next day or two til they got the blocks put together for the basement walls.

It's so awesome to finally be on the path to my brand new house.