As promised, here are the latest photos of the building process. The first three were taken last weekend, as the foundation was poured, and they were getting ready to start the framing process.

This first photo is one of the very first thing we noticed when we drove up - the number of our house! It's been tough trying to figure out which of the holes was ours, and short of counting the number of lots we passed on our way down the street, we really had no way of knowing which site belonged to us. Then, much to our delight, not only did we discover the foundation having been poured, we also finally have a reference point!



Next, you can see our main floor without any actual flooring, just the sono tubes they use as support beams, along with a very cute cartoon someone decorated our basement wall with! It made us smile, so we thought we'd share it with you. :-)



Next, you can see our basement with the foundation poured. We're doing a walkout, so it's kind of neat to watch how that portion of our home is constructed!



Now this past weekend, we visited the site again, and again, much to our delight, we found that more progress had been made! They've started framing our home! We've got a couple of friends who live directly across the green space at the back of our home, who are keeping a watchful eye on the construction of our home, so we get weekly updates from them too!

Upon arriving this Sunday afternoon, we noticed all the framing gear that's been delivered to our site.



Next, the most exciting part of everything today, is that we have a wall! The very first main floor wall of our new home has been erected!



And finally, we were able to see our main floor with actual flooring on it! No more sono tubes exposed anymore!



All in all, these past two weekends have made us both very excited. We've been told many times by various suppliers, and others who have built homes, that there's no way we're going to be in by our projected possession date, so to see the progress they've made is very warming. Shelley and Kimerie at Baywest have also assured us that we need only listen to what they tell us, and that so far no changes have been made to our possession date! That was also wonderful news!

Now the only thing we have left to do is to go to our lighting supplier. A good friend of Jason's family works at Signature Lighting here in Calgary, and we're going to meet with her this Tuesday afternoon. We figure that while our lighting allowance is relatively small in comparison to say, our cabinet allowance, we can monopolize on a friendly relationship with someone in the business, and we can also upgrade our lighting in a couple of years once we're gotten rid of the debt we'll be in following the finalization of this home.

Stay tuned for more frequent updates as the weeks progress!