These two have been such troopers this summer as we’ve been busy building the hangar. I love seeing what good friends they are and how imaginative they can get. Emma ‘enjoyed’ walking through the mud and getting thoroughly caked in it, while Ben decided it would be fun to dunk himself in the puddle! Crazy kids!
Lennard was able to hook up all the electrical on the door tonight and we got the door working! So exciting to see it open and close the way it should!
How is it possible that we have been married for 15 years already?! It feels like yesterday that we were nervously heading to the temple and starting our lives together. I can’t imagine my life without Lennard by my side. He is my best friend and an incredible daddy to our children.
It was such a nice evening to get away together and go out for dinner at the Keg. Thanks for watching the kids for us, Shauna!
We got a babysitter for the kids this morning and went to work on the roof of our hangar! Mom and Dad, Cub and Bryan Heninger came to help us. It was quite the process. We set up the boom and put a ‘ramp’ of sorts on it so that we could slide the long pieces of tin up onto the roof. I climbed up the ladder, shimmied across and got into the bucket so that I could pull the tin the rest of the way up to the guys on the roof. As fast as we could get the tin up, the guys had it in place and screwed down in a few places. Amazingly, we had the entire roof on just after lunchtime! I went and got the kids from Mishel’s, picked up lunch for everyone at Subway and headed back to the airport. After lunch, Lennard went back up and finished putting in the rest of the screws.
What to say… we spent the evening at the airport (surprise!). The kids had a blast ‘scaring’ Grandma, digging in the dirt and then deciding to go wading in the huge puddle. Both kids were totally soaked and completely filthy by the end of the evening, but they had a blast!
After a failed attempt at the door last night (the ribs on the tin didn’t line up after we’d started so we took it all down) it was nice to have some help and really get going on the door. Mom and Dad helped us get started and within an hour and a half we had the majority of the door done. We still have to play around with the last few pieces on each end, but at least a big portion is complete.
It’s so frustrating when you make a mistake that could have been avoided. I was mowing the front lawn and had finished everything except for the pile of weeds by the family room window. We always just whipper snip it, so I’m not sure why I thought it would be okay to try to mow it… I was very careful to hold the mower up a bit so that I’d only get the weeds and not all the rocks, but I guess I wasn’t careful enough. On the very last swipe, the blades caught a rock and flung it through the window! So incredibly frustrating!
I turned the mower off and went to see what the damage was like downstairs. There was glass everywhere… literally! The glass went about 5 or 6 feet into the room and covered toys, blankets, etc. I banished the kids to the backyard and started cleaning up. I got everything vacuumed up as best as I could and was still finding bits of glass if the light caught it just right. I couldn’t find the rock though! I searched all over the place, but no luck.
When Lennard got home he went searching and ended up finding it clear across the room beside the recliner chair! I’m so incredibly thankful that the kids weren’t playing downstairs. It could have been so much worse than it was.
Another evening at the airport. Lennard got all the tin cut off on the front ridge. It looks so good!
