Day 6

Basement is DONE!! YAY!! They were pouring some more concrete today, but the basement is finished! 

As you can kind of tell from the picture, there was a lot of action at the house today, so I couldn't get up close and get great pics :) 

Now, we kind of wait to see if all of the black dirt that they pulled out will be enough to "build up" the house 6 feet or so. Let's hope it is so that we don't have to spend all of that extra money on dirt and can spend it on some fun house upgrades!! 

Day 3 - The Basement

They started on the basement now!! Yay!! It is fun to see where everything is going to go and have a better visual of the house! 

The look from the back of the house is neat to me! We are going to have a walkout, so you can see on the left will be a guest bedroom (in the jut-out area) and the right will be our family with a patio door to outside. 

We had beautiful black dirt/top soil, but in order to do a walkout, they had to scrape down our backyard. Here is Tristan in front of a huge pile of dirt! It really puts into perspective how big that pile actually is! And we have three more of them on our property!!

It is Memorial Day Weekend, so it will be a few days until I update next! To be honest, it feels like the progress is going quickly right now! I love seeing the changes day to day!! 

Day 2 - 5/24 - Pouring the Footings

I am shocked by what I have learned about the building process just in the last couple of days! Let's be honest, I had no idea what "footings" were until I stopped out at the lot and saw them for myself! I would have assumed they were a new type of shoe that I probably needed to buy ;)

This is the "top" part of the house where the front will sit. As you can see from this angle, they had to level our backyard, but luckily it is beautiful black dirt, so we may be able to use it and salvage some cost from our final grade and sod!

This is the framing for the footings. Again, please bear with me as I am not 100% sure I am using ANY of these words right - haha! But I am definitely trying!!

The guys working were very kind and explained to me what I was looking at - our basement - and where the stairs would go, etc. It is really very, very cool to see everything come together from the ground up!!

This isn't really my area of expertise, but it is fun to see the progress they make everyday! It is about 90 degrees here, too, so we appreciate their hard work! 

Day 1 - 5/23 - Breaking Ground!!

We broke ground on our new house today!! YAY!! We are so excited to begin this process! I went over my lunch break and took a picture of the lot. I hope to be able to do this quite frequently during the summer months. Actually, if I am honest, I am torn....if I don't go everyday, I will definitely notice the progress made when I DO go....but if I do go, then I will get to watch it go up in person, which is so fun!!

Here is a picture of a pile of dirt and a little hole. But it is OUR little hole! YAY!!

With that being said, we have already run into some issues. Our builder called me today and said that they need to build up the slope more for it to be a walk-out home. We are getting final numbers on that to determine if we want to do it or not. Baron really wanted a walk-out lot, especially for the winter hockey season, so I hope the numbers don't come back too high!!

We also found out that we don't have enough sand in our soil, so we will have to bring some in to help accommodate that issue. Apparently building on black dirt is not good...who knew??

Here's to hoping that these are the only issues we run into during this process! (Ha!) But also to knowing that Baron and I can work our way through just about any issue!