The Penney Project begins

Well, I am going to borrow a page out of my sister-in-law Christy's book, and try one of these blog things to keep everyone informed about our house building project. By now you all know that we're planning to build our first house. We've picked out the style (colonial), the floor plan, and all the details. Now here we are in July, and we're waiting to start the actual construction phase of the project. We had hoped to have the building permit this week, but the city inspector remebered Molly's parents' lot (which is right next door) had issues with errosion a few years back, so he wants testing done before he will issue the permit. No permit, no work. So we're waiting. Hopefully we'll be able to get an engineer out to the lot next week. Here are a few pictures of what we're starting with. The top one is the view from the street, and the second is from Molly's parents' yard.