Patio

My mom gently reminded me that I haven't wrote in my blog in awhile so you can thank her for my blog resurrecting from the dead.


So for some reason I thought I already wrote a post about our patio but am not seeing it so I guess I was just dreaming that I wrote a post.  Dave's dad kindly lent us his truck so we could pick up all the pavers.  It was a very tiring task, mainly for Dave because I was only able to lift the small and medium pavers and those only made up about 5% of our patio.  Dave was wiped and sore just from loading them into the truck and then unloading them into the garage.  We have such an awesome neighborhood that one of our neighbors even came over for a bit to help Dave unload the pavers from the truck into the garage.  By the time we were done, Mike's truck was making a weird noise and we were so concerned that we broke his truck from all the heavy hauling but it turns out that all it needed was power steering fluid.  Whew.  Thanks again Mike for letting us use your truck, I don't know how many trips it would've taken us if we had used our car.  Lol!


The pavers sat in our garage just awaiting the day to build a beautiful patio.  My dad, my brother, Tom (Dave's high school friend) and David (one of our business friends) came over to help build our patio.  Our two friends and Dave did all the heavy lifting from the garage to the back of our house.  My dad and my brother did all the foundation and patio building part.  Dave and I sprinkled in some help too.  Everyone worked so hard and we were able to get it done in less than a day!  It's pretty safe to say that we were all wiped by the end of it.  But as you can see in the picture below, we could not have asked for better weather!  It was gorgeous out!!

Even Zoe decided to help out a bit by playing in the Paver Base box.

It's so true that boxes make the best toys!  My mom (who had a tough job herself for the day by taking care of all the kids) came up with the idea of bringing in the Paver Base boxes for the kids to play with.  Creativity at it's finest below.  What better than box beds??  And guess what??  We had exactly 3 boxes for the 3 kiddos!  How fun!!

This extension of our house has already been utilized a lot in the past couple months for MANY bonfires along with extra seating at Caleb's birthday party too.

Below are the kids anxiously awaiting our guests to arrive for the bonfire party!!

We are so incredibly grateful for everyone who helped create this space which will forever create lasting memories.  THANK YOU!!!  We love you all so very much!!