The Gimpy Couple

36 years ago these two tied the not!!

Here the are currently!!

This is a belated happy anniversary to Mom and Dad. Although I don't think this is how they really wanted to spend it!! 

Progress!

We stopped over to check on the progress of the basement. This is the back of the basement which will be open and have a door. The "experts" checked things out:

This is the front of the basement. It will be filled in with the house on top.

This is the east side(faces the road), where Payton and Cael will each have a bedroom, hence the egress window wells.

The farm boys were there too.

Nate is showing the view from the southeast corner of the house.

And yes, he went to the ballgame in those shit boots!

Payton is standing (posing, remember he's a fourth grader:) more east than Nate.

Then there is the techno geek  aka, Cael.

This view is south of the house.  You can see Mark and Jeannie's house down the road.

Everyone is excited!  We'll keep you updated.

THEY ARE DIGGING!!!!

The backhoe showed up this morning around 8:30. They started to dig around 11:00. Pat, our contractor just sent me this picture. My sister-in-law also sent me some pictures that I forwarded to Mom. Hopefully she will be able to post them for me. We are going over there tonight to take some more pictures. 

Before.....

Mike has been working his tail off the last two weekends getting fencing ripped out and moved and rebuilt. Our nephew, Trent, came up last weekend and helped him and Payton. This past weekend Mike had plenty of help from Payton, Cael and Nate. Nate took more of a supervisor roll than anything else. I even went over on Saturday afternoon to help pound posts. Mike had to work overtime on Saturday morning, so the boys and I tore out the fence at our house. We only have to pull up the wooden posts and it is done. Mike and I went to the bank last night and signed papers for the construction loan. They are supposed to start digging this week. The house is scheduled to come off the line on June 10. So things are moving. Not fast enough for me but they are progressing. I have taken some before pictures and will get them posted. The land looks different without the fence there! We have started to pack boxes. A little at a time. I have tried to do some things in the boys' rooms but they flip out and think I am getting rid of it instead of just packing it away to move!! 

On a sad note. We had to say goodbye to our cat, Fluffy, 2 weeks ago. We are not sure what happened but think he got into some poison somewhere. Mike had to put him down. The boys are saddened by this and I have found myself looking for him and then remember he is gone. We will not be replacing him anytime soon. I am hoping that I can convince all of them that we don't need any inside pets. I have enough animals in the house with Mike and the boys there!! Maybe a puppy outside but that is down the road.