60 Days and Counting

Last Saturday,  I believe the date was November 24, we went down to check on the progress of the house.  To our surprise, we now have a garage, driveway, front walk and stairs, and a back patio.  I'll tell you what.  I was SO excited about that new addition.  (Of course I was.)

All of our cement in place.

 
They had all of our timber there to start framing the basement and that was exciting too.  We figured that they would start framing on Monday because the timber got delivered before Thanksgiving.  We were wrong.  I know that they have other houses to build and to work on.  Ours is not the only one.  I know that it will still get done on time as well, I am not worried about that.  I just wanted to see some exciting progress this week.  And then we got the amazing news from Julie.  They had started framing our basement yesterday!!

The framing has started.

 
We were very excited.  And I say 'we' because even Chris was excited to see that the framing had started.  It was a good day.  Only 2 months left.  8 1/2 weeks.  60 days.  But who's counting?

2 Posts in a Day?

I know this is my second post today so I will keep this short and sweet. 

This morning I got another picture from Julie.

Pouring the basement.

They are pouring our basement today.  HOORAY!!

House Update

Yesterday I got a few wonderful pictures from our cute neighbor Julie.  She had told us that not a lot has happened, but when I saw the pictures I thought differently.  A lot had been done in my eyes.  But any progress, even something small like clearing away dirt, to me is something getting done. And that is exciting to me!

The foundation is prepped and ready.  And all excess dirt is gone.

The top picture shows our foundation is actually surrounded by dirt now.  That means that we have an real foundation there and ready to go.  The picture also shows that the garage is ready to have the concrete poured as well.  That is going to be an exciting time when we have a garage, drive-way, and sidewalks. 

The bottom picture isn't too exciting.  It is just showing them clearing away the extra dirt.  But clearing extra dirt means no more dirt piles.  And no more dirt piles means we have a yard. I know it's not a real yard yet because of technical things, but you have to believe in order to see it.

I am hoping that framing starts next week.  Then it will look start looking like an actual house.  And as a side note. . .  Our house is not going to be a 2 story like our neighbors behind us.  Although their house is coming along quickly.

The Next 2 Steps. . . Kind Of

The last couple of times that we have been to Springville we didn't think that there was going to be any progress for us to see.  But boy were we wrong.

Last Tuesday we went to see the footings, but they had already put up the supports to start pouring our foundation.  We didn't get to see the footings, but that is okay.  I will take progress over seeing every step happen.

The supports are up.

We had heard from our neighbor Julie that there wouldn't be any progress for about a week because the foundation had to cure.  Which is great news because that meant they could start framing soon.  Well, soonish. 

On Saturday my mom came to Provo so she could see where our new house was and the progress that was being made on it.  As a side note, thanks mom for coming down.  It really meant a lot to us.   Again, we didn't expect anything new to have happened.  Although I did expect the supports to still be up setting the foundation.  They were not.

We have a foundation and window wells.

I know that there is not really any added progress to it, but the supports are down and I was so excited to see that.  That means that they are getting close to starting the next step.  I can't wait to see what they accomplish this week.

Progress. . . And So Soon

Yesterday as I was leaving work. . .  Well maybe I should explain first.  My sweet neighbor in Springville, Julie, is watching over our house progress for us.  When I met her on Saturday she got my phone number from me and said that she would watch over our house for us.  She is going to let me know if there is any major progress.  If so, she would take a picture and send it to me so I know that I need to get down there and see everything that has been done.  Thank you Julie.  Anyway back to the original post. . .  As I was leaving work I got a text from her with a wonderful picture.

Here are the wonderful footings.

At first I didn't know what I was looking at.  I was just excited to see that something had happened in such a short period of time.  Our friend Matt pointed out that they were the footings of the house.  Which then prompted me to ask Chris what footings are and what is their purpose.  For those of you that have no idea what the footings are, like me, let me educate you.  They are the support for the more structural areas of the house.  In the picture, everywhere there is cement there will be a wall of some kind.  Maybe you are all smarter than me though and you already knew what footings were, but it was interesting for me to find out.  I know that I am going to learn a lot throughout this process too.  The picture also shows our floor plan kind of.  Our front door is at the bottom of the picture.

We are really excited about the progress so soon, and I can't wait to go down and stare at it today.  Thanks again Julie for the update!

The Start of Our New Life

On Saturday I went to Springville to check the progress of our house.  I was so happy to see that we have our hole dug.  I know that it doesn't look like much, but I am still very excited about it.  Building our home is now a thing that is really going to happen.  It isn't just an idea that we have talked about, which is what it has kind of felt like the last couple of months.  It is now a thing that we have happening in our life.  Over the next 85 days it is going to get more realistic and more fantastic too.  Awesome!

Our amazing start. . .

While I was there looking and taking pictures one of our new neighbors came over and introduced herself.  She was really nice and welcoming.  It made me feel very comforted and excited to have neighbors that we can finally relate to and become friends with.  One thing that we talked about was our new ward. . .  Don't you worry, I found out that our new ward has 96 primary children.  3 nursery's and 4 sunbeam classes.  So there are only a few children in our ward.  96!!  She also said that they have parties and a lot of social gatherings.  I think that it is going to be an amazing ward and neighborhood for us to be in.  We needed to live somewhere that we can meet new friends and feel like we are apart of the community.

Hooray for a new life!!