House excavation

I've been spending most of my time on the shop so far.  The plan has been to get the shop up first as it is simpler and then I have space to work to help move the house along, so the house has been running second banana so far...but it's time has come!  Everything has been delayed (story of all projects), but I was able to get things scheduled for excavation and foundation in Mid-late July.  Here are some shots of the excavation going on.

This view is from the higher ground looking down into the hole.  We used a laser to carefully measure and set out the pad height and then had the excavator dig to make a flat pad at that level. 

After that, since some of the walls are walkouts, there need to be "frost footings" or basically 4' walls that are set below the frost depth for the walkout sections.  Below is dugout for those after the pad was flattened out to the correct level

And here is the hole all completed nd ready for the concrete guys.