Week 3 building

This week the main floor was framed and the cement porches were poured. It's been a fun and exciting week. Next week we should get the 2nd story framed!

David just hanging out while Wayne worked on installing our meter box. We are doing our own electrical with the help of an awesome electrician in our ward. Wish us luck!!

Our cousins and gma and gpa showed up just in time to watch some excitement. We watched as the cement truck poured! :)

Week 2 building

We started drilling the well. Wayne's unlce is really good at 'witching' water. He came with a dozen wet willow forked branches. It is crazy but I think it must really do something. He had me hold a branch and walk with him. The branch twists and moves when there is water... Wayne tried his hand at witching too. There's gotta be water! Our driller has drilled many in just our little valley, so I'm very hopeful. The ground is really soft and sandy so we have to have more pipe casing to get down in the ground. 

Here's the big dirt pile that the kids love to play on. It is now gone... we have already backfilled around the foundation and are working on framing and power. :) 

The foundation getting the forms taken off, before we backfilled.

Our lumber was delivered, the trusses should come by the end of the week.
And hopefully it will all be framed within a couple weeks.

We are glad to have Grandma and Grandpa back from Hawaii, they brought us yummy macadamia chocolates, and fun t shirts. Grandma also got these cute hulu costumes for her dress up box ;) 

Week 1 building our House

We started building our House last week, yeah!! It has been going really fast, I'm so glad that we decided to hire a contractor. I don't think I'd be sleeping at night if I had it all on my shoulders. The first couple of days they did the excavation. There is a big pile of dirt that the kids love to climb on and play. We plan to use a lot of it for backfill and build up around the house. 

Heres our official sign! :) I love how it says future home of Wayne and Stacy Clayburn, exciting!!

They framed up and poured the footers, then the last several days they have been framing for the foundation. The cement pump truck will be here tommarow, then the next day they will start framing. Our contractor is so organized and on top of things! She says we should be able to close and move in June 12, crazy huh?!!

I went to take these pictures today before they pour the cement and take it all down, and it is so windy here!! Thats spring in the Uintah Basin :(. But when I drove down to take the pictures and got out of the car I was so surprised at how sheltered and nice it was there. Its really protected by the massive grove of trees... those russian olive trees just might be growing on me ;)  

Isn't this a pretty little tree all pruned up? Hopefully we can keep it and it won't be in too much of the way during construction. Wayne has pruned up a few more, and we plan on keeping a fair amount. I'd take a picture of the pruned up little grove but currently there is a porta potty there... ;) 

David loves playin in the dirt there. He even layed down in it wanting to do a 'snow angel', I made hime stop! crazy kid.

They could play for a long time here. A couple of times when I've come down and there is a big crew of guys there David really thinks its cool... "Why do they talk that Spanish way mom?" lol.

My cutie pie's new playground :) Isn't she sweet with her baby?
Well thats been our busy week. We miss Gma and Gpa, glad they are coming home today!

Ellie turns 1!

My busy little girl turned 1 last Sunday. She is sooo cute, but terrible two stuff already!! ahhh. Busy busy busy!

Our little Princess. She loves music, dancing, playing peek a boo, tickling, EATING, and exploring everything! 

Happy Birthday!! We started the day out with Birthday cake pancakes complete with sprinkles and frosting. yum! She devored her cake and played with the frosting ;) 

What a sweet girl and a special day. It was so nice to have support of family to help us celebrate. She was the little star in her cute birthday outfit!