Here we go again!

Here we go again!  Five years ago we bought a piece of property with the hopes of using it to build a home.  We started small, building a 950 square foot house; one that we planned to later transform into a garage.  


Four years later we are ready to start again.  As with the first time, the husband will be doing the lion's share of the manual labor, hiring out only the parts that are to time consuming to do on our own.  Once we close on our builders loan, we have just one year to complete construction.  


This weekend, the husband brought home a mini excavator to "get things ready" for the foundation crew to come in.  Somehow that turned into digging the foundation in two days.  Considering the foundation crew estimated excavation at $3500 and the husband completed it for under $600 in equipment rentals, I'll take it!