...the fruits of our LABOR / day !

looking for a house update,

well, there really isn't one...DANG IT!

you'd think there would be since it's been almost 3 weeks since the last photos were taken....

long story short...

we tried going the no permit route (b/c we were told it wasn't a big deal and we probably wouldn't get caught), well we ended up getting busted and are coming up on THREE WEEKS OF NOTHING! we are praying that it'll get back going the end of this week!

matt and i are SO ready to get this thing back up and moving...well we've done so much this past holiday weekend. sat and sun we worked 8-5 and monday we pulled a 12 hour day! but we completed our project: a retaining wall in the back to sort of even out our unlevel backyard! it looks great. at first we had our doubts. digging the trench was a nightmare and then we got smart and called home depot. there Keith recommended a ditch witch and matt and i agreed it was the smartest $100 we'd ever spent. but even with the ditch witch, it took the better part of 4 hours to dig that trench!

we poured concrete on the back side of the wall, covering some bricks that matt's friend, Justin, suggested we stair stepped up to create support from all the dirt we'll have to put in it. sweet justin came over for about 4 hours and helped on monday!

getting busy, we love our new trusty wheel barrow, we've already used the heck out of it these past 3 days!

PRIMED house...but seeing that it's supposed to rain the next 1 1/2 weeks, probably will stay this way a little longer. final colors are white with grey trim!

side of house. was completely overgrown and we took charge and cleaned it up!

matty renting the ditch witch!

putting it to shame! that thanks shook him crazy! he was beat at the end of the day!

dirty matty

before picture of the back yard before wall went up...

our wall!

i looks so good. can't believe we did it actually! that was not an easy project!