Saturday, April 12, 2008

So today was the big day to start building the fort. See Adam's Blog if you want more background info. Adam got all the stuff we needed and he cleared out the garage and got to work. This could either be really good or really bad. Below is our first Saturday's progress.

Liam actually helped more than the other two kids...he handed us the wood screws. He was fascinated with all the power tools, mostly the loud noises that they made. He would say "WOW!" after every screw went in.

Adam using power tools...once again - really good or really bad? These are borrowed tools, we don't have lots ourselves, thank you Brad!

Grace helping....

Liam shows us where the screws are.

When we first set the basic frame up in the yard I thought - this is like 10 times bigger than I thought it was. It was actually going to be bigger, but Adam scaled it back, thank goodness. Once we got all the wood on it was very heavy.

This is Adam digging the holes for the fort. Somehow we got it over to where it was supposed to be, and we actually got it standing up in the holes - I don't have the picture of that yet. The rest is for next Saturday, hopefully we can finish it then. We are supposed to have nice weather all this week so wish us luck. The kids are so excited and so are we! All in all it was a very productive day.

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