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It has been so stinkin’ wet here and the weather prophets say much more is on the way so the workers are kicking it into high gear and wanting to accomplish much before monday.  We are now ready to plumb this bad boy and put the steel in the trenches… I must confess, when this part is over i will be very, very relieved.

Progress?

Trenched!

Just a little side note, Ej’s in week 12 so these next few weeks (12-14) God will begin “laying the pipes” on our little one, in other words, “it” will become a he or she!

Today we got to see and hear the little one for the first time, it was pretty amazing to hear and watch the heart beating.  Thank you God for your good gifts.  Just in case you want to hear it too, you can click here.

A house built without hands

It also snowed today so there was no new progress on the house…

Snow day!

Snowy yard!

They have it all spread.  It isn’t quite as smooth as a baby’s bottom but they are almost ready for us to begin plumbing.

spread out

east to west

west to east

then you move some of this over here

The slab will seem to take the longest to come…

So in case you haven’t heard (and i don’t necessarily expect that you have), we are starting to build our little homestead.  Of course this is going to get really fun the further along we get into the year with Erin (my wife) being prego (due in September).

So we have a house to come and a little one, let the race begin!

The first pic is from January 22nd and the rest are all from today!

Ej at 6wks & the corners are laid.

Finally after the rain waters receded, real work begins!

First delivery of dirt!

Sp-p-p-reading the dirt!