African Lion Safari 2010

In the seven years we've lived at this house, birds have never paid too much attention to our barbeque located on our deck. For the second time this year birds decided that they needed a home and choose our barbecue! Our girls caught them in the act too while having breakfast. "Look at the birds on our deck!" they both said. Luckily, this is as far as they got.

Again, we get help with the packing!

It's really late (12:26 am) so if you're reading this, please return later and I will add more text to the pictures. Downloading takes WAY TOO LONG for some reason for us!
Yawn! I`m going to bed! Please look at the pictures of this posting because there is a new posting after this one as well.

The hole, the walls and the packing...

Well, after driving by our lot a few times and just seeing 'dirt' as our kids called it, we were starting to think that was all we were getting. We were pleasantly surprised a week and a half ago when we found our 'dirt' had become our 'hole. The very next day our 'hole' started to have a shape similar to our future basement.

The girls enjoyed Daddy letting them play in the 'hole'
Luckily it was bath night!

Three days later- the foundation is poured.

Mommy, Daddy and Three Little Monkeys!

Sump pump and weeping tile.

Forms for the foundation walls.

Basement walls get formed.

Not as much dirt to play in and definitely no more hole to play in, but the girls are happy!

The forms are removed to reveal the foundation (basement) walls.

The new garage.

As the new house gets built....

More boxes get filled at the other house.

Our storage 'bin' arrives.

On paper this 'bin' looks huge with 'plenty' of room for all of our stuff.

I even made 3-D models using AutoCAD on our computer proving that everything would fit.

Well, the very first item (our couch) wasn't quite as square as I had planned and ended up taking 2 more feet than I had anticipated. Although, I kept telling all the naysayers (everyone else, but me) that we had lots of room and everything would fit, it actually took me until the bin was about 3/4 full for me to admit that we didn't have enough room (or alternatively- we have way too much stuff!). We already had a climate controlled indoor storage unit rented for our electronics, picture albums and MAD Magazines, but even it was getting full. My lovely wife saved the day (as always) and called the storage unit people to switch our small unit to a larger one. After we had the 'bin' filled we drove to our storage 'unit' to move the stuff from the original one to the larger one. After four more trips to the storage 'unit' using two vans each trip, we were finished for the day.