Sunday, August 25, 2013

Breaking Ground!

We have a hole!  Yay. It finally feels like its really going to happen. On Thursday night the excavator was delivered to the lot and so we went over to see it and take a few pictures.
Richie had to get in it of course and pretend like he was working it. I think he would have loved to have actually started it and driven around the property. 


Do you love our hard hats? As soon as we got our building permit I ordered these hats on amazon... because we will need them to be safe of course (or I really think they will just look cute in the pictures). :) Richie was hesitant at first but he decided on the blue one so he could make it a Seahawks hat.

On Friday afternoon I met Richie out at the property and they had been digging away. So exciting to see a big hole and finally get to see and think about where things will actually be. 

 They are digging down a little deeper than we had thought they would need to. We have also realized that until we can get the house built and those two (or more) trees out that the stairs we have going down from the bottom floor deck will be going to nowhere or into the trees. So we are thinking for now that we might not build the stairs and we can add them later when we decided to take the trees down and work on the yard space.
 Richie had to get close to really check out the hole. It's so dusty out there so his nice black work pants and shoes weren't so black anymore. 
On Saturday morning mom and dad came over for breakfast and then we went out to the lot with them to check on the progress. 
Dad and Richie talking about the trees. 
The hole continues to get bigger. 

It's going to be so big.

 This is the worker, he uses a laser and this pole to make sure he is digging correctly. :) I think this would be a tough job...and a dirty one. 
He should finish with the dig today. We are leaving for a wedding so it will be fun to stop by and look at it on Sunday. Next step... the footings. :) 

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