Our Summer Projects

I must say that we accomplished a lot this summer. We had 4 things we really wanted to do, but figured we would not have the time nor money to get them all done. We started with the easiest and ended with the hardest and got them all mostly completed. Jake is such a hard worker, he did the most, I just watched the kids while he worked, but did help some. First is the deck coming off our back door. It was just an 8 X8 square, we wanted to make it longer so the BBQ could fit up, and the stairs to be longer so you could sit on them and watch the kids play. I couldn't find a picture of before to compare, so I made one LOL.




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Second, we have wanted forever, including our old house to have an awning over our patio. Jake went to work. Last Year he poured the footing and this year in ONE day the awning went up. We just started staining it, and still need to finish that part.

Third ... The side of our home had wood chips, I HATE wood chips. So we moved all the wood chips to the flower bed, we had to dig up the dirt, to remove the black tarp underneath. Take apart the falling over swingset, level the dirt, remove the one million rocks and we laid sod!! It looks so nice. Next year Jake will run a sprinkler line to that area and we will put the swing set back up.

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The 4th and final project would be a shed. This home of ours doesn't have a whole lot of storage space. We have storage under the stairs, and in the garage and we have been using one of the closets in the bedroom downstairs. So Jake, BJ and Ryan poured some cement behind our RV parking. Jake constructed the Shed with 2 X 4s and plywood and this weekend we have started to put up the siding. It looks so nice. The cement was not 100% straight, so the shed does have a slant to it, but it works!! It has freed up a lot of space.

I can't believe we got all of this done. We have a few more projects we would like to do, but many more years to complete them. This winter we are going to turn under the stairs into a play space, like at our old home. One day we would like to put a door going outside to a small deck with hot tub in our room!! And one year we would love to level the backyard, that will be a huge Project, so that will be down the road in a few years! We love our home, and we love the changes we have been able to make. Its been a fun summer. Jake loves making improvements and building things and he does such a wonderful job at it.