The foundation is DONE! The house is really beginning to take shape now. We were taken quite by surprise at how deep the foundation is though. Originally we had been told that the crawl space would be just big enough to crawl through. Now, as you can see, we have a "stoop" space. In the back it's about 5 feet tall, plenty of space for the lawn mower. You can now see the garage (half cut off by my photgraphic technique), and our soon to be front porch. So far Steve (the construction superintendent) hasn't gotten too tired of our calls. We've called him every few days or so with little details that we want clarified or fixed. The latest problem had us a bit cross though. It appears as if several of the neighborhood kids decided to play kick-the-vents on our crawl space (the day after we took this picture in fact). Every one of the plastic vent's around the foundation has been shattered. Steve assures us that they are easy to replace and mortar back in. If that's the worst that happens in this story, though, we'll be really happy!
The wood for framing the house got delivered today as well. When we stopped by, there were 5 or 6 bundles of framing lumber, and 4 stacks of plywood for sheathing and flooring the house. We wouldn't have believed it if we hadn't seen it, but they also delivered 50 large tubes of construction adhesive. That flooring should NEVER squeak! We'll continue to take pictures over the next few days so you can see the house going up.