Culverts are in and we're on to the engineering phase!

Last week a little more progress was made. Praise the Lord, because honestly I'm beyond ready to get this show on the road! We had NO idea how much time and leg work it took in the beginning. We are getting so close but I feel like we are still so far away. I'm ready to SEE SOME DIRT MOVE!

The culverts were installed last week though so we can now drive onto the property. We drove the Jeep onto it and drove to the back to check it all out. They also marked the final trees that are going to have to come down where the house is going to be. We're trying to keep as many as we can. We also determined the depth from the road we're going to go back and decided our original plan of 50 feet (to save money on concrete because its so darn expensive right now) was way too close and 125 feet would give us a great sized front yard and a HUGE backyard. Oh how I can't wait for us all to be running around back there. Especially after almost 3 months now in the apartment with no yard.

The soil sample was also completed so the architecture plans along with the soil sample have gone to the engineer. Once the engineer is finished with his work (which will hopefully be this week or the next) it will all be submitted to the city for permitting and while that is being done they will begin site work!

Here are some pictures of the recent work:

This was the view down the street tonight at dusk. The clouds had a beautiful pink hue to them and it was so nice and peaceful out there. Can't wait to sit out here on my back porch every night!