About a house.......

Well, the time FINALLY came that we closed on the house/lot.  It felt like forever since we started this process, but we closed on Tuesday.  It was such a relief to know that we can now start the craziness of house building.  First, we had to take care of some much needed cleaning out of the lot to make way for our new house. 

On Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, the tree removal began.  I really did not want the tree guys to work on Thanksgiving, but they insisted it was fine with them.  We went over there to see the progress before heading onto the Families for the lunch.  I was amazed at the amount of work they had done by 10am!  The trees were not small either!!  I know some of the tree huggers out there will be mad that we didn't save the trees, but we have no choice to get the house to fit.  Besides, people need firewood, lumber and paper still!!!  So, in my mind, the trees are being recycled!  I was really worried, I would see a sign saying, SAVE THE TREES! 

This is what I saw when we pulled up to the house on Thanksgiving Day. 

This is the stump from the tree in the front yard.  The bulldozer that demos the house, will pull the tree trunk out of the ground.  The guy in the tree is on the last branch of the biggest tree that you can see in the picture of above in the left corner.