The New House is Started

It has been  a crazy and long process, but I am now happy to say that we have finally broken ground on our new house.   This is the look of our lot last week prior to any excavation work.

This is the how the lot looked over the weekend after a few days of digging and pushing dirt.  The footers were dug out and ready to be poured.

Basements never seem to look that big when you first lay them out. Sarah keeps commenting on how it doesn't look like that much space.  I think it's going to be plenty!

Yesterday the crew poured the footers.  It was ridiculously hot here and they had to be miserable. I was sweating just thinking about it.  They said that they had about 20 minutes before the concrete was setting pretty hard. 

That's the first step in all of this....footers done!  Right now they are assembling the forms for the basement walls.  With decent weather, we may have the walls poured by Saturday.