House

Hi hi hi hi!  I think I'm finally back from a long break of no blogging.  I've been moderately busy and my mind has been taken up with a lot of things I won't bore anyone with on here.

Before I go on, I want to give a shout out to my favorite coworker who I know is reading this!  Hi B!!  He's partly the reason why I felt like I needed to finally get back to writing already.  I needed a little bit of a push to stop being lazy.  

Anywho, Jarred and I have been really biding our time since early March when we got approved for a home loan.  I can't believe only a month has passed since we signed the papers to begin construction on our home.  I've posted some photos to Facebook, but I wanted to put them here as well. 

 This was the first day we went to go visit the site.  We were surprised the builders had already done this much work.  We didn't see them level the land or anything, it's almost as if the foundation *poof* appeared!

 Mom gave us a penny from 2010 (the year we got married) and Jarred threw it down into the foundation's corners. 

 We're both happy, but really, I'm not too excited yet.  We've wanted this house even before we got married, so it's been a dream for a few years now.  Now that we're in the process, I feel we're more focused on anything but the emotional aspect of the house.  We're going to be letting our landlord know we're moving soon and then we have to think about actually moving -- which I'm not looking forward to honestly.

 Okay, this was the second time we went out to see the site.  The builders had finished the foundation walls.  They had also moved in all the gravel to be poured in the foundation after they did a termite treatment. 

 That was the first time Lou saw his soon-to-be home.  I was a concerned mama about him walking all over the gravel, but as Jarred always reminds me, he was once an outside dog.  Lou even laid down on the gravel and got comfy real quick.

 This was what we found today!  The gravel has been poured and the plumbing has been installed.  I think the next step is to pour concrete over everything.  We were finally able to walk out to the eventual backyard.  It's all dirt of course, and Lou got some very dusty feet from it all!

I'm hoping to get a photo like this each time we visit the site.  It will be fun to see the house being built, almost like a virtual flip book. 

We have been going out twice a week to see the work.  We have not been out while the guys are working yet, but we have a scheduled framing visit at the end of the month.  I know we eventually won't be able to take photos like this because all the work on the outside will be done for the most part. 
I really can't wait to see the walls up!