Dawson's First Home Depot Project

Earlier this month, Dawson and Caiden participated in Home Depots kids' project - a school bus pencil box. Here are some pics from that event.



Safety first!


Deep concentration!


The finished projects!

And...then there was rock.

Here's another update on our landscape project. The rock for the new beds we put in the front of our house arrived on Memorial Day. We remembered the day by putting down fabric weed block, installing our new path and up lights and shoveling rock. It was a hard but very productive day. Its so refreshing when you accomplish something!

The project area

The boys were so excited!

Another Project Update - Concrete!

In our quest to redo the landscaping in our front yard, we decided to have a fresh, curvy, concrete sidewalk poured. Oh, much joy it was when that day arrived. It turned out so good too! Plus, Dale and I didn't have to haul any concrete. We've been there, done that and I'm never going to do it again if I don't have too.

The dirt has arrived

Here's the latest update on our landscape project...the dirt to fill in the old sidewalk and around the house has arrived. Caiden thought it was cool to watch the dirt being dumped. We have some of it already spread. Now, we are getting bids from concrete contractors on doing the new sidewalk and edging. Watch for the next update soon.

Project Update 1

A few weeks ago, I posted about our next project - redoing the landscaping in our front yard. Thanks for craigslist our "rock" wall is gone. Who would have known that so many people would want someone's old busted up concrete? Pretty cool!

Our next project

Since spring has officially sprung here in Tennessee, Dale and I feel the need to work on some outside project. This year, we are going to tackle re-landscaping our front yard. We've added on a new porch, which you can barely see here. And Dale worked all weekend on jackhammering the sidewalk and building the walls of Jericho. Now, we just have to haul all of this off, bring more dirt in, redo the sidewalk, buy all the new plants, rock, etc. , plant them, stain the porch and we'll be done. Exhausted yet? I'm guessing this project will be finished by October - just in time for winter. Whew!

The Dog House

As promised in my last post, here are the pictures of the "dog house" that Caiden and Dale made on Saturday afternoon. They are so proud of it. It is very cute. Notice the detail...2 doors, one for the little dog, and the other for the big dog. They came to the conclusion that the dogs needed a pillow and blanket. I guess Dale or Caiden will have to learn how to sew!