Adventures in the Basement: By The Numbers

We have had several friends stop over in the past few weeks to peak in on our project. One thing they all say is that the pictures just don't do it justice. So we thought these "statistics" may help give a little perspective. 
We are removing 105 yards of earth...don't know how much dirt is in a yard of earth?
Let's try another statistic: to remove that much dirt we have to fill the wheel barrel about 1000 times. 
To get to the wheel barrel, we first put the dirt into a bucket, so that is 7500 bucket loads.
We all have used a shovel before right?! Well, here you go: To fill the bucket it takes about 5 shovels full. So to dig out our basement we have to remove approximately 37,500 shovel full of dirt...give or take a few shovels full. 

Before we can dig out the middle of the floor, we have been working on the new footers and extending the wall down. There are 34 - 4 foot sections that we have to dig and pour with concrete. This weekend we finished sections 22 and 23! Not to many more before we can do "the big dig" to lower the floor! 

This is going to be our new master bedroom.

Working in the trench. 

 Here you can see how thin the existing floor is, not even 2 inches of concrete in some places. 

I am working on getting a video up of our project we did this weekend...but I'm having some technical difficulties... Here is a picture of the outside of the house after it was finished. See if you can see what is MISSING from the house.