We are Underway!

Construction Demolition has begun!  Here's a before shot of the driveway:

The first step in our construction process is to remove the driveway.  The large bushes in front of the van were cut down yesterday and will be hauled off on Monday.  Part of the fence was taken down so the driveway could be demolished today.  This machine had a jack-hammer attachment and that was the first step.  It was SO LOUD (sorry neighbors!) and I had a sinus headache.  Luckily we could vacate for most of the day.  Here the machine is making piles for the crusher that will grind all of this into gravel.

Here's the holes made by the jack-hammer before the machine above would scoop it up.  Please excuse my non-specific machine names as this is not my forte.

Here's the rock crusher that barely fit in our driveway.  It ground up our entire driveway into 3 giant piles of gravel that will be used for fill, etc...during construction.  This was also very loud.  The boys were loving every second of it although Brighton preferred the view from inside since it was a little quieter.  They estimated it to be about 75 tons of concrete.  Seems like a lot to me.  

Here's the after picture.  Let's just say with all the rain on Sunday, we had quite the mud-pit in our front yard.  There was literally a moat where our front sidewalk used to be.  Derek is taking daily pictures to show the progress and I'll try to update each weekend!