I've Already Told, Now It Is Time To SHOW!!!

Okay, so here is the after pictures of all the projects I have been telling about. This first set is of the shelves I added to the pantry. I forgot to take the before pictures, but use your imagination. This space was occupied with small store bought plastic shelves with our food stuff stacked everywhere. I was very proud of myself for adding these shelves. It was much easier than I thought it would be.







So, I have to share this funny story. We have been buying boxes of Cheerios lately and the ones we have been buying have had this promotion of a cash card in the box. It is a 1 in 10 odds. We hadn't won anything in the 8 boxes we had opened. We bought 4 more boxes and I opened them after dinner. In the 10th box I found a silver packages at the bottom. Everyone came running. I felt like I was Charlie and had found the last golden ticket. We all guessed at what the value of the card would be. It was going to be $5, $10, or $25. You can see in the picture what we got! What a funny experience. Oh, and the last two boxes had nothing in them either.



Now, back to the tour. This picture if of our newly made fire pit area. The benches were just steel frames until the past Wednesday. They were my first project with all my new toys (power tools). Right after I took this picture I went to work staining and waterproofing them. They are a beautiful walnut brown now. We are excited to spend several fall nights enjoying a warm fire (too hot right now).


These are the axles from our house. We are planning to sell them. If anyone is interested let me know. Otherwise we are hauling them to a scrap metal yard. They aren't going to be FREE, but I think for $25 an axle I would part with them. Anyways, this isn't a sales pitch.

Okay, next stop. You can see the trim towards the top of the shed. We added those to the front AND back. And, even though you can't see it, we added a 1 x 2 and added it over the door. We are attempting to keep the rain out. It is the only place that leaks in the entire shed. I think this may have helped to fix the problem.

These next pictures are of my amazing work on the shelves. Please ignore all the junk that is filling them up, and just notice the shelves themselves. :) I am proud of the fact that this is ALL of our "stuff", including the house and our storage unit. We can see everything, and almost all of it is labeled. So we count it a victory. That was today's project. YEA!
Next stop back screen door. This was a Wednesday project as well. I wasn't planning on doing it that day, but heck, what a day. Of course the wind picked up and it had to rain a little to add to the mix. But we got it in. It had been wonderful as well as a challenge for the kids to remember they still have to shut the solid door when they go outside. Check. Another project down.

Last stop on our tour is the new location of the gate. I moved the fence out and around the shed. The yard looks so big and spacious now. We love it.

And that concludes the picture tour of our summer of projects. Thanks for coming along!

Later...

Holy Sore Knees!

My knees are KILLING me! Put I did put in the patio we thought we were getting. Notice the "Thought we were getting part". We apparently have NO clue how to calculate amounts of needed materials as we are done and still have over 1/2 pallet of each color. So we spent about $400 more than we needed too! Funny...not really. But we have decided to take our mistake and just enlarge the patio. The pictures are included as promised- I didn't want to let my listeners (ok, mostly readers) down. I can say that I am happy and thankful that it is done.
Before I started and after it was done:


See it turned out REALLY nice. Once we get the sand wet down and the squares cleaned off, I will have to post another picture so you can really see the checkboard pattern in it. My son wants to go out and play mini-checkers. I think that would be alot of fun- tomorrow/ later. (Side note: The ugly steps you see by the backdoor are being replace with a small deck within the next few months. I will update you on that later.

Well, off to be with the family- just wanted to update you. We head for Orem on Monday and then to Richfield! YUCK! That is going to be a VERY long day!
Later...

P.S.
Oh, my dad came and helped me install the other AC unit today. Now our computer room stays nice and cool as well as my bedroom. With the days hitting in the 100 degress everyday, it's nice to be able to cool down.