Bringing the outside in

Uh…  Sorry that I disappeared again!  I have to make this stop happening!  You would think that my days now should be the same as they were in the winter when I posted so much more often, but I think as days have gotten longer, time is slipping away more!  I don’t know how that happens.  =)

Anyway, I wanted to share some pics of our most recent little big project here.  Re-creating usable access to our backyard again.  And yes this really was a little BIG project.

We decided the weather had been beautiful and we wanted to open the house up a bit to let some fresh air in.  So we literally took this to heart!  Yep, there is Ross tearing out the door frame for our french doors on an incredible Friday afternoon with outstanding weather predicted all weekend.

Now some of you might be asking “WHY?!?!”  Well… Long story short…  We have been here 8 years, replaced these doors once before, found that they have continued to leak, now had kitchen floor damage too.  Something had to be done.  What better time than the present?

So Ross comes home from work on a Friday afternoon shortly after boys started napping, drags out some tools, and starts to destruct repair our home.  He grabs the sawzaw.  UH!  Kids are napping.  “Well, they may not now,” he says with a grin on his face.  Hmm… We will see. “If they don’t, that just means more helping hands,” I replied with a grin on my face.  AMAZINGLY THEY SLEPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!  At least for a little while…  Then we had to get Riley from school and wake them up.  Yes wake them up with power tools running in the house.  All in all…  The weekend was an adventure of repairs.  Thank goodness Ross is fully capable of handling such a task, and has the patience to include his little helpers when possible.  5 days later we had doors in place and most of the mess cleaned up.  Everything went pretty smoothly.  Here are a few more of the highlights for you to enjoy.

Everyone is lending a helpful hand…

What a mess!!!!!!!! Braden “WOW! Wow.”  Riley, with a serious tone of voice “The holes are getting bigger and bigger!!!”Still more mess before things get better. Let me get these for you dad. Whatcha doin?  Whereya goin? You look funny down there dad!  Are you done yet?  do you need this?  Doors in.  Boys locked in.  Lock on door backwards, so dad locked them in.  Ooops!  Fix that in the morning.

Sure glad that this is over.  It was trying at times.  Wouldn’t have been bad if our boys didn’t have those handy man genes.  It is in their blood to help with projects!  Go for a walk out back?  No way!  They might have missed out on something!  Whew!  I did talk the boys into going to watch a parade and see a model train display on Saturday, but I had to do a little coaxing.  =)  I am glad they are learning fix-it skills early.  They will make it in the world.

So…  Any exciting little big projects going on with you?