It's Finally Happening!

It's been awhile since I have posted.  Not for lack of trying, but what was originally lack of progress. Here is a draft I had started on February 27:

I've been putting off updating because there is really no progress to report on the house since I posted a live video on Facebook a few weeks back.  I can't express just how exciting it was to see work finally started on our new home, especially after overcoming some unexpected hurdles with the permits and weather.  Days after my video post the Home Owners Association served our contractor a Cease and Desist letter stating that the geo-tech report done on the land was to old and we needed a new one before we could continue.  Although the report had been approved by the engineer it wasn't good enough for the board.  Our contractor was livid, especially since he has built many homes in this neighborhood, and has not had any issues like this before.  However, it has been about 8 years since a house has been built and the board members had turned over in that time and so this is something these particular members have not handled yet.  Well, we got a soil sample taken and a week later it came back A-OK.  Just when thought we could get back to work the association said they wanted to review everything and get the entire boards approval - only some were absent and we had to wait for them to return.
After two weeks of waiting we finally got the approval from the board to proceed - that was 5 days ago.  3 days ago the excavation started back up again only to have the machine break down!  We got word today that it was a faulty hose, but we really don't know when it will be fixed.  This is getting to be ridiculously comical.      

I ended up not posting as it was incomplete and the excavator was fixed and work had FINALLY recommenced.  Then I wasn't sure if I should still post what I had written or re-do the whole thing.  It got to a point of feeling so behind that I wasn't sure what to do until now when I decided I had to do something!  So now that you know what's been going on in my mind let's get to a much more fun update. :)

The glorious mounds of mud.  A beautiful messy start! 

Trenches dug out for pipes.

Many deep trenches and holes to play in.  A child's playland.  

Dancing on the mound.  The kids could easily move now and call it good. 

Paradise for Gabe, but for some reason he didn't want his hands touching the dirt that day.  

Lily and Amara had so much fun jumping into the trenches.

I'm so pleased to finally be reporting this progress!  And  the icing on the cake is that after two weeks of digging we found out yesterday that the foundation is ready to start pouring today!