Okay, first the bad news: the city didn't forget about us and gave us a power meter. ***Sigh**** I guess we can look forward to city bills after all.....
The not as bad: it's Friday so no more work for the week.
Now for the great: WE GOT LUMBER which means they're going to start framing soon!
So today we were lucky enough to visit the house while they were backfilling the hole around the foundation. They filled all the window wells with gravel, then the mountains of dirt around our hole was put back in the hole. I am amazed at how huge the backhoe was and how effortless the operator made it seem. I was kind of suprised at how noisy the whole process was as well. The garage is completely filled in now and I can hardly wait to see what happens tomorrow....could it be plumbing or flatwork or framing or even more backfilling?
This is Anya standing in her new future bedroom in the basement (when we finish the basement--hopefully next year.)
Not only do we have basement walls, but we have windows and a new address. We just happened to be visiting the construction site when they painted it on.
So we stopped by and found our hole completely dug. We couldn't resist climbing down in to inspect the work and scaling the MOUNTAIN of dirt that came out of our hole. 
Grandpa Lundgreen said that he watched them fill a whole dumptruck full of dirt and take it away.
nish Fork instead. We're thrilled to finally get the chance for a little more space. (Although I have a sneaky hunch that no matter how much space we get, we'll just fill it up eventually.) We've picked out all our colors and materials and should break ground shortly. I told Cordell I will probably start crying the day we walk in the front door with the keys to our own home. He said I was way too sappy. :) Hopefully we should be in mid to late September--just in time for Halloween! Here's a link to a virtual tour of our floor plan, with the exception of the upstairs loft being a bedroom instead: http://www.showmethemodels.com/hamilton/index.htm
