Home Improvement

We love our home dearly but it needs a little fixing up here and there and since my husband has lots of free time he has been getting TONS done!!! Our lovely basement has a tendency to flood since the ground has sunk and slopes towards the house. So we have a big project to do! First he ripped out all the trees and bushes that were in the front of the house and on the side of the house. Next he put this tar stuff on the inside walls of the unfinished basement to prevent the water from continuing to come in. Next he broke up the side walk to the patio. Then I got the joy in helping roll up all of the grass in the front yard and moving it to the back yard so that we could get the ground raised. Daniels brother david was so nice to help cut the sod up and transport it to the back. They only broke 3 sprinklers :-) . Sod is so heavy and i'm a super woose so i got to the point where i would just roll up the sod and the boys would carry it to the wheel barrow then roll it to the backyard. It took us all night long but we got it all done. Friday Daniel and my brother chuck went and picked up some dirt to raise the ground with they made the dirt slope towards the sidwalk and street instead of the house. Then we put the sod back down it took us till 11:00 at night and daniel started working on the dirt at 7 in the morning it was a long day and he was so exhausted.Saturday morning we had to give the puppies baths they got so muddy and dirty from helping us out :-). We were also watching Daniels sister Wendy's dog buddy for the weekend. max loved having a friend. after the bath daniel fixed th sprinklers. now we get the joy of pouring some new cement. but the yard is coming along quite nicely. Hopefully we can get it all taken care of this summer so we can have a party next summer :-)