What a good day!

We had a great day yesterday! But how could it not be a great day when you start it wearing these shoes! Auntie Brenda got these for Anna and she loves them. They even stayed on her feet all day.
This has been a busy week for our house. It is finally taking shape! The footings were formed on Friday and the plumber came on Saturday. Then he came back again on Sunday, because our house is the cool new place to hang out in the neighborhood. It seems the whole neighborhood is young families. Every night we have been down there a new family has come down to meet us. They are all super nice and friendly. Which I am excited about. But the plumber had been gone for maybe two hours when Neil and I got to the property Saturday night and the kids had used it as a jungle gym and broken the pipes. In order to pass our first inspection we have to prove that the house will hold water. So you have this pipe that is like 5 feet out of the ground which is connected to all the plumbing and you fill that pipe with water. So the inspector puts his hand in the pipe and if he feels water, you pass. Well that's the pipe the kids broke off. So all the water leaked out. So that is why he came back on Sunday. So we passed our first inspection on Monday and then the footings were poured. Then the poor plumber guy had to come back again on Tuesday because the concrete guys hit a pipe and again our water was gone. So finally I think the pipes are safe because yesterday the concrete guys came back out and poured the slab!!!! Hear is a picture of Anna and I standing were our front door will someday be. That is the garage to the right and the office to the left, and behind us is where the kitchen and living will be. It is so funny how small it looks when it is flat. The house is 1660 square feet, but it sure doesn't look like it.

This is the front left hand corner of the house and it is going to be Anna's Room. Last night after the concrete guys left Neil and I put Anna's name and date of birth in her first house. So cute. We are thinking about staining the concrete instead of laying tile in the kitchen and dinning rooms. So we went down to the house to make sure none of the neighborhood kids thought it would be cool to carve in our floor. But we put Anna's name where we knew we would put carpet. And we took pictures of her next to her room.
I am starting to get sooooo excited about this house stuff. It is just more believable now that it is happening and I can see progress.
We are hoping the framing will start this weekend. So maybe by the end of next week we will have walls!!! Crazy!!!!