Month: September 2011

I’m exhausted.  Dave’s exhausted.  Ajax is exhausted.  And I’m quite sure our folks are exhausted, lol.

Our construction project continued into Saturday with the Michigan heat reaching into the 100s again (today it’s 63).  My dad was already over as he stayed a second night at our house.  Dave’s parents came down Saturday morning and had two of Dave’s second cousins (ages 5 and 3) as they were babysitting and Dave’s cousin lives near us.  They also had Eli the dog, which Ajax was very excited about.   My mom and sister also came over Saturday morning and ended up being on kid-detail while the rest of us picked up our tools!   Between five adults working we were able to paint the entire garage and clean up the electrical inside.

Ajax had a ton of fun with his cousins and all three played so so well together.  At one point we thought they’d take a nap, with Ajax and Travis (age 3) laying in Ajax’s room, but when my mom peeked in on them they were chatting away and gesturing wildly (no one got a nap on Saturday with all the excitement).  I’m still not sure what toddlers would be discussing at such lengths, but there you go.

The kids spent about half their day inside (as the heat was just too much) and then the rest playing outside and running through the hose.   Dave’s cousin and her husband came by to pick up the boys and ended up staying all afternoon just hanging and talking.  And then my aunt and cousin stopped by to say hi.   One thing I will miss about being in town is our family; I love having people stop by.

By Saturday night the garage was completely done.  I am still amazed that it was completed that fast, we thought for sure it would be a three day job.

My parent’s headed home on Saturday night and Rod and Dara stayed over.  On Sunday the work continued and Dave and Rod were able to put the gutters back up on the garage and did some masonry work.   Dara took Ajax to Ikea and he came home with some more pieces to his train set and a large area rug for his room.  I was also able to peel some tomatoes and peaches in preparation for another round of canning.

 

 

Well we’ve kicked off construction on the garage (it was also 101 degrees outside).  We tore off a few of the panels and replaced them with new pieces.  We put up some pine molding and plan on painting the whole thing to match the house.   We also plan on re-working the electrical and putting up a new flood light behind the garage.  That’s really about all we plan on doing.  We want to put in the very least amount of money as our hope is to put our house up for sale in February.  We just need it to be presentable.  My dad came over yesterday and stayed the night and Dave’s parent’s are coming down tomorrow morning to lend a hand.