And so it begins!  Construction FINALLY started on the house!!!!  Monday June 8^th was our official groundbreaking at the property and we’re beyond excited for Matt to get started.  The excavator was delivered last Friday and after a family BBQ at our house on Saturday we took the boys and my parents over to check it out!

The boys pose by the excavator – they were super excited to check it out on Saturday.

And since then things have been changing daily at the property.  It is absolutely crazy the progress that happens in a week.  The beginning of the week started with clearing the brush that’s been growing since the last time the property was mowed, as well as taking down a few trees that needed to be removed.  I’m sure that chainsawing trees isn’t exactly the most enjoyable task to be doing in 80-degree heat, but the property looks so much better for it!

The week started with clearing brush and a few trees.

At the beginning of the week our property was green…everywhere!

This is what it looked like Monday evening after a day of progress.

Excavating for the foundation has by far been the biggest event of the week though.  It’s wild how much has changed.  At the beginning of the week our property looked like an overgrown mess and now property has been excavated for the basement and foundation and there’s dirt stockpiles everywhere. There was already a huge pile of dirt by Tuesday evening and the boys LOVED climbing all over it!

The excavator!

The boys on top of the stockpile in our future backyard.

Cameron & Spencer rocking on 🙂

We let the boys sit on the bulldozer – Cameron thought it was so cool!

Spencer thought the excavator was awesome. I think he emptied about 2 cups of dirt out of his shoes on it!

By Wednesday there was already two stockpiles up by the street as well as another lower on the property.

Cameron standing on top of a stockpile, checking out the excavator and the amount of work already done!

A quick panoramic of the property on Tuesday evening.

On Friday, Cameron stayed home from school because he was sick and so I took him over to the property for a couple field trips today J  He had so much fun as we got to watch the excavator and bulldozer in action!

Cameron sat on top of the stockpile for at least 20 minutes watching the action.  He had a blast!

Checking out the bulldozer.

The excavator at work. Way better to watch it in action!

In addition to all the grading, Tanner Electric arrived on site to install our underground power line and transformer.  I was hoping the power line install would only take a day, but it actually spilled over into Wednesday too.  The location of the transformer on the property looks great though – it’s on the far side of the house and we set it back about 15’ off the road so that we can ‘hid’ it in the future with some shrubs.

Tanner electric digging the trench for the underground power line.

After the first day of their work, they were nearly complete with the powerline.

Tanner Electric’s truck!

Our transformer tucked back off the street (along with the temp power pole for construction).