Dig Day!!

We signed the papers to buy our house last night and this morning I got a call from our builder that he was on the lot with the excavating crew deciding which way to orient the house! Yeah! We didn't know we would dig so soon after signing the papers. He has to get the hole dug and the house closed in b/f the weather gets too cold, etc.

N and I visited the site twice today. We stopped by at lunch to say hi to the crew and to see how things were going. The guys are real nice. We went back this afternoon to watch them working. N loved watching the machinery. ... he took a great nap afterwards. I think we'll be watching the machinery on a daily basis if it causes N to have sweet dreams and longer naps. :)

We went back to the site when D got home from work. We took several pictures (attached).
It's so hard to believe this is happening. It's so exiting! The first picture is of D standing at the front of the house, near the entry way. The second is of me standing in my new "dirty" kitchen, and the final picture is of the guys checking out the excavator. I'm so glad it's a CAT. That's the first thing D asked when I talked to him this afternoon. "What kind of machine are they usin?"
I should have known.