POOF! My husband went to town after the base work was finished and

all of a sudden we had a basement framed in one day!

And then floor trusses all in 1 day's work!

And then a floor sheeted.....all in 1 day's work!

OK, the trend stops here, the exterior walls took a few more days but

they were all up within the week!! And as you can see our house finally takes shape!

WOW!! Now we're not looking so bad, cleaned up and ready to build!

The groundbreaking of the hole which will soon be our home!

Hard at work setting up for footings.....

I surprised my husband one day and completed a whole layer of our ICF's all by MYSELF!

Who knew I could use a maniac saw, bend/lay rebar, and set forms?!

Of coarse there was no one to take a picture to prove it :(

 Here's a few pictures to give you a VAGUE idea of the literal "mess" we got ourselves into!!

And this was just one area of MANY that were overloaded with.....well, trust me- you don't even want to know......knee dead in sh** is an understatement!