A Wall!!!

We have a wall! It's been a LONG time coming, but it's something.

We used up the wood we had for the footing frames. So all we spent on this was a total of $18!

You can't complain about that! I got to run a chop box and a drill, so I am happy! One day you will see me on This Old House (atleast that is what I told Michael, lol).

This was done on August 23, 2009.

CONCRETE!

June 22, 2009

We were finally able to get a cement truck out to pour the footings

Below you can see the "Wayne's World" pumper truck. I called it this because on the side it said,

"Schwing" 32XL. It was super hot that day. And of course, as soon as the pumper started pouring, the wind DIED...I mean completely. Then, 5 minutes later, the sun decided to show it's pretty HOT face. It's a good thing we hammered this out in about an hour. Thanks to the help of the pumper dude, Michael's dad, and family friend Steve.

The first pour.

Excavating Pics

Here's a slideshow of the pics from the excavation. I tried and tried to get the slideshow embedded in the post, but unfortunetly I couldn't. It takes a moment to load.

http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d5441774e7a45344d7a673d0d0a&blogview=true

Are we actually doing this?

April 5, 2009

Excavation

Michael helping out... I hope it's square :

View from where the Front Entry will be

Can I one of these? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!

Excavation...Done!

Now it's time to really get to work.

Blank Slate

Where It All Begins

April 4, 2009

The Spot

These are facing what will be the Back of the House

And so it begins...

And so it begins...my first experience blogging. Thanks goes to my Sister-in-Law, who has no idea that she gave me the idea to do this. She has two blogs that I follow, and I thought it would be fun to do one myself.

A little history for you. My name is Mya, I was introduced to my husband Michael in 1997 when we were Seniors in high school...Thanks Lora! :) We got married in April 2002. This was not before our first son Tristan came in September of 2000. Hunter followed closely behind in February of 2002. Five years later, our third son Leo was born.

After we got married, Michael, the boys, and I bought a single wide trailer home. Okay, that was fine then. But, we knew we wanted ALOT more. We had a dream of building our own home. No banks or lenders, no general contractors...just us (and whatever we could gather up out of family and friends for building). Fast forward 7 years...Here we are in a different single wide trailer home. Hardly anything for protection from Mother Nature. And crammed into 3 bedrooms with 3 young boys. Yeah, we are quite "cozy". LOL

So here, for your following pleasure, I present...Field of Dreams. Our blog following the dream we've had for 7 years, from start to finish. It should be a fun (and stressful) ride. And if you are wondering why I am calling it "Field of Dreams"...we live in the middle of a field. It's as simple as that, lol. And a special thanks goes out to my husband's parents. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't be doing this at all.