This weekend was all about construction. We invested..... mucho time into the Backyard Deck and the Basement.
The boys were initiated into hard labor with jack hammering, hole digging and cement mixing and pouring. As you can see in the pic... we had to tear up the back yard steps and rip through the slab to find a place to pour the cement piers for the ...... soon and coming, back yard deck. In this pic we have dug the holes and poured the cement for the deck foundations. By the way, it took 4 hours, solid on the Jackhammer, rented from HomeDepot to tear this dude up. Also, we had to pour 45 bags of cement to complete the piers for the deck..... 45 sacks x 80 lbs = over 2.5 tons of concrete. When we finish, the deck will be 24' x 16' for backyard, party fun.
Friday found us welcoming the the Pikes Peak Building Inspectors to approve the Building, Plumbing, Mechanical and Electrical.....allowing us to start on the sheetrock, etc. Yes, this project has taken us a while, but we are sooooo excited to begin nailing up sheetrock.... taping and bedding..... texturing.... and painting.... We have set the goal to have all this done prior to school starting in the Fall.
The Boys Bedroom.... This is going to be a HUGE bedrooom with two closets with living space of 14 x 26.
The bath downstairs... this pic is actually the shower. As you can imagine, the girls are more excited about the finish of this particular room than the boys...... giving them their own bath!!!
