Monday, January 26, 2009

garage demo-1

This past weekend we had a bunch of our friends over to knock over our sad mess of a garage in preparation for the new one.  Our contractor came by and had the garage doors taken out and (hopefully) out for reuse.  We spent the next day salvaging wood and other stuff before the real tearing down began.  The picture above is the garage before D-day.
What was going on inside during demolition.  What you cannot see is that every lego and train set piece was scattered all over the floor.  The pre-naptime cleanup was epic and met with much resistance.  
Salvaged wood pile--soon to be picnic tables, vegetable garden edging and the chicken coop!!  
One of the completed small projects (still awaiting its top)--a recycling bin bench!  Hooray!



garage demo-2

Saturday morning was started by tearing the metal roof off...
Roof truss removal.  
The demo crew, looking tough.  Amazingly, and thankfully, there were no injuries, save for a few sore muscles.  All of that corporate safety training paid off!!  
Only the utility room was left on Saturday afternoon, but gone by Sunday in time to watch the football games.  We did the final load of laundry Saturday night and are (im)patiently waiting for the new washer and dryer to be installed in their new digs--INSIDE!!  My little domestic fantasy.
Garage is GONE!  Slab removal in progress.  

Sunday, January 25, 2009

for the grandmas and grandpas...

Saturday mornings at the playground
Check out those cheeks!!
First smiles!  This is especially welcome at 3 am...
Lilly finds the Christmas elf hat amongst the dress up clothes
Tiny little monkey toes

they're coming

Lots of things going on here!  Pictures of our garage demo, bathroom before + after and kiddo pics coming soon.  Who knew that maternity leave would be SO busy!