First things first

I honestly never thought I would ever start one of these things (for many reasons...one being time). Ironically enough, I decided to create a blog during what will be one of the busiest times for me. Between working a full-time job, hitting the gym, and the usual day-to-day stuff, I will somehow squeeze in updating this blog (not to mention working on the house when Ken needs my help!). We will be doing most of the work ourselves in order to cut costs, and I'm excited since I've never done anything like this! (Ask me how I feel about working on it come July).


This blog was created to track the progress of the house construction; a nice little place where I will post photos and updates on where we are in the building process. I figured this would be more effective than constantly emailing friends/family or bombarding the masses on Facebook.


A little over two weeks ago, we went to the lot to do some clean-up before the bull-dozing people came and leveled the dirt. The weather couldn't have been any more perfect for weed-pulling... it was about 62 and sunny. We saw two snakes on the property! (Hope they move out before we move in...)

This is what the lot looked like before any work was done

We tossed aside any large rocks, weeds, or branches we found in the dirt

The more weeds pulled, the less likely they end up in the slab of the house

As you can see, I took my job very seriously

 The following Saturday, somebody came out with machinery and flattened it all out. I was out of town so I missed it, but here is a photo Ken took afterwards: