Thankful for Dirt!

 

It has been a productive week!!





























On Monday, January 19th they were finally able to get in and start the dirt work! We were so excited we went out there and watched them bring several loads in and spread it out. Matt was out of town for work so me, the girls, my parents, my sister and her 2 kids were there checking it out and taking pictures for Matt.

They pushed off the sludge and brought in dump truck loads (2 at a time) to build a good foundation. It was a clay type of dirt that they brought it and they were finished by Wednesday. The project manager said once they were able to get that soupy layer of dirt off of the top it was good solid ground underneath. Once they were done they did another compaction test and we should have the results on Monday.

The builder also got everything together and submitted our package to the city for approval and permits. Its starting to feel a little more real now!!! Here are some more pictures of the work they did this week.

Contract, Oven and Patience!

So as you might have noticed, I haven't posted anything in awhile. That's because there's not really ANY news to report with the house. I have learned that patience is a key quality needed when building a house. It WILL NOT be on your time frame so trying to hurry things up is pointless.

I guess one major thing has happened since last time...........

On December 17, 2014 we officially went under contract! It was so nice to get things back to our budget with some minor changes and 1 major change to our home. The few minor changes included things like roof pitch, moving a wall in a foot, and bringing the garage back to a normal, but still large size. The major thing we had to change was eliminating the upstairs bonus room. Thankfully hubby wants a pool house/man cave in the back eventually so we will have that extra space one of these days (wayyyyyy down the road I'm sure!)
So now that the papers are signed and we're ready to go so you would think things would be looking different at the property. Well, they are.............BUT instead of a nice house pad, we got a pond!

 

We have had so much rain lately that our property has flooded! We were suppose to start the dirt work the Monday following the date we signed the contract but over the weekend it poured! And it has dried up a little since then but we're still getting rain and its so saturated that if they brought trucks and equipment onto the property they would do more damage than good. So...........we wait!
We're still waiting on the package to be sent and approved for permitting as well as closing on the construction loan, but we were at least hoping to have the site work done while we were waiting.

We did stumble upon another exciting thing:

Our double oven!! While on his lunch break hubby decided to stroll through Lowe's and came across this GE Profile double oven at a steal of a deal. Someone had purchased it for their custom home and returned it for no apparent reason. So we saved $2,000!! Score 1 for us!!
Other than that, things have been pretty slow as far as progress. But I've been tearing up Pinterest and Houzz! I've got lots of great ideas stored and I can't wait to actually apply them to our house (one of these days!!) Hope to update you all with more soon! Please pray the ground dries up and we can get moving along soon!