No more shed

This past weekend Rich and Eileen came down to help take down our shed and start organizing our garage. Rich and Luke got the shed down and delivered it to the dump by Saturday morning. Rich worked on it Friday during the day and Luke helped when he got home.

Before

After

Cleaned up and painted

Jake helped Luke paint the trim on Saturday while Rich built us two work benches in the garage and a contraption to store our Yakima. I really need to take pictures of the inside of the garage too, the benches and storage contraption look awesome! I helped by painting the block underneath the stucco--as you can see, it was white in the before picture. We still need to paint the door (we'll just paint it white) and Rich is also planning on putting in some shelves for us. We are going to have someone lay some sod for us and put our fence back up, so hopefully that happens relatively soon!

In the meantime, Bishop was in heaven. He "helped' out quite a bit and he always let us know what he was doing "I'm the measure man (with the real measuring tape)", "I'm the worker man", "I'm the helper man", and "I'm the cleaner man". He was probably the busiest one out of all of us!

Grandma helped keep track of Bishop and make sure he wasn't hammering nails into his fingers and she also helped keep track of Nora, since she wasn't always where we put her down! :)

Happy with Grandma

Nora's first laundry basket ride-she loved it!

He loves to build things with his blocks!

Thank you so much Rich and Eileen for all your help! The garage looks great and we appreciate you taking your entire weekend to help us out!

Miss Nora is all over the place! She loves to crawl under things--when I picked her up from daycare yesterday she had crawled under the highchair. This morning before daycare she crawled under the highchair, Bishop's table and the coffee table! She doesn't seem to mind being under things, but she gets a little frustrated when she gets stuck and can't get back out! Thankfully she's feeling much better, as the antibiotic must have finally kicked it (it seemed to take longer than I would have liked). She's sleeping better too(just up 1x/night around 3am)!

It's amazing how well she crawls--she completely skipped the army crawling stage...she got up on all fours and about a week later she was crawling!