My Birthday Surprise

Saturday August 9th,  I was thinking about just working on a few little projects around the house. My sister-in-law Karly had just offered to help me finish painting the basement concrete (part of phase II--stay tuned). But SUPRISE!! lots of supplies and people showed up for a birthday work party. My mom organized a playhouse work day as my birthday gift--we really needed to fix the crumbling playhouse (one item on a long list of things I wish I had time to tackle). SO thoughtful!

We had lots of help. Grandpa was sure that we needed to remove every nail before sending wood to the dump. Virgil and Emily were really good sports taking down the yucky siding and putting in new insulation all while fighting the cherry tree.

 Luc was well...you know.

Others came too, Erika, my Aunt Sharon, and Ian....but most of the work was done by Steve and Scott. We put in a couple new windows and fixed the 'doggie door'

Scott is so talented that he can do two things at once! (yes he is talking on his phone while installing the window).When we were just about done, we got the promised monsoon...it rained and we were not sure we would be able to finish the job, but the sun returned.

We amazingly got quite a bit done too!! 

Now we just have to paint the whole thing, put trim around the windows and the corners on the outside and trim around the windows on the inside. Next spring, Scott thinks that he is going to take off the roof and build up....he saw the playhouse I grew up with and just can't leave it. Oh well another project for another time.