House Started!!!

Woo hoo!!! We have started construction on our new home! We knew dirt was going to start moving on Friday of last week so we decided to have a little “ground breaking” ceremony on Thursday night.  We asked John & Emily to join us in celebrating. It was cold so it was a quick ceremony, but we had a few minutes for this:

And this:

(The half empty glass is Owen’s… and it is half full of Sprite ; )

                    

                   

By the way, my good camera is having a little work done on it so I had a point and shoot and it did a crap-o job this night. iPhone photos are from here on out.

Day 0 picture:

Day 1 pictures:

The garage will be on the right. The horizontal part is the front door/living area.

        

The backhoe in our master bedroom:

     

Artsy attempts at documenting the event:

          

This is a model of what the house will eventually look like:

I’m sure I’ll bore you to death with a zillion pictures for the next few months. With any and all luck we’ll be in sometime in the April/May time frame!