Grandma and Papa G came here memorial day weekend to help us build a big patio cover. The first weekend we cut the concrete for the footings and set the brackets. Since we had to wait for the concrete to set we didn't really get to work on it anymore that weekend.
We bought chalk to lay out the footings... Kayda and Carson had a fantastic time with it. Carson made my heart happy when he did this...
Then they made a driveway length hop scotch that got too hard to finish.
While we waited we did some geocaching. It was a nice trail with a great view of the mountain. Everyone was having a great time with the long grass. Grandma started it!
Daddy decided to teach the kids leg wrestling. Carson and Grandma decided to try to give Kayda an advantage... It didn't work.
We are fortunate to have really great neighbors that we love. We only really interact with two houses but they're amazing. I'm super grateful to Eric (the "cool uncle") and his "graduated in Kentucky" mentality. He let us borrow his tractor during most of the project AND he was able to use a bracket he'd previously made to place ALL the king horizontal beams. They were all 6x6's. There were three 16ft and two 18ft... 4 went up 10' and the last 14'. SO glad we didn't have to try to lift them by hand!
This project took three weeks to finish. Between work, school, sports, and weather it was a very slow process. A lot of it was actually done by Papa, Grandma and the kids (especially Dillon) while we were at work. I'm so grateful they came to help. It was something I desperately wanted to build... But it was also intimidating. It's AMAZING and we'll spend a ton of time in it.
Of course, we bought some patio heaters since I won't use it if I'm too cold lol.
When they left they took Dillon with them as a "hey it's sucks your trip keeps getting delayed" consolation visit.
1 comment:
Thanks for updating this years activities, so far. Wonderful grandkids, great in their activities.
Post a Comment