Busy, Busy, Busy

I'm such a bad blogger, I have been so busy these last few weeks..er... months...

Over that time, we started the tedious process of pulling down wallpaper, sanding, priming, and painting all the trim, painting Ellie's room, ripping down the deck, building the new one, working on the gardens and and of course all the fun things that come up on a daily basis. Including Ellie starting to walk!!! I'm so proud of her!!

Here is the old deck, it was very unsafe and not built to code ..... 20 years ago. So it was safe to say that it was time to go...

Here is Dave ripping down the deck I would have been helping, but someone had to take the pictures. :)

And here is the (almost) finished product... 

As you can see there is still some work that needs to be done. We wanted to get it at least mostly finished before Ellie's birthday party. We were literally screwing boards down while people were pulling in the drive way.  I can't wait to get it finished, we already love spending time on it, we have a nice little patio set and a tiny picnic table for Ellie. 

Her party was a huge success, I can't believe our little girl is one already, this past year has just flown by.