Sand and Sunday Posers

Well, we finally got the rest of the sandbox finished....or I suppose I should clarify that JASON finished it...I did however help him spend the money to get the rest of the supplies...that counts right?
So here are a few pics of the last of the process of getting it all ready for sand!  That's the last step.  Jason has been checking out a few places around town to see who has the best sand.  He's pretty particular...haha.
Getting the first board in.  Lots of leveling...and then re-leveling...it was more involved than I thought. 

 2nd row of boards up!

 Using the clamps!  :)

 Third row up, and completely finished.  Except for the whole sand thing.  We still need to get that...:)  It's gonna be one heck of a sandbox!!

Jason never fails to impress me with his skills at building things!  He rocks.

And now onto the Sunday Posers.  Both girls wanted braided pig-tails for church this last Sunday.  So that's what they got.  Then Makayla wanted her picture taken, and of course then Brookie did as well.  So it turned into a mini photo shoot while they ate their breakfast.   

 Cute little posers.  :)

 I think this is one of my favorites of Brooklyn.  Just captured her cute little personality so well.  She's always asking questions with this cute little head tilt, and at the end of every question, she'll say, "right mom?"  It's adorable.  That's what she was doing in this one. 

 

Saturday Projects

Our backyard is basically a slab of grass (thankful for at least having that).  No trees, no fun toys...nothing except grass, with lots of spiders in it.  Our poor girls are always going to other friends houses who have all the fun stuff.  So we decided it's time to build a sandbox.  Plus Jason really likes digging holes.  So it was perfect.  He can dig, me and the girls could oversee.  Haha...which basically means we just sat in the shade and watched him do all the work!!  I was very diligent with getting him big tall glasses of ice water every hour or so.  Go me.
We might even manage to get a tree or two in before winter comes along.  If not, then that will be a project pushed back to a spring weekend.
This is possibly going to be the biggest sandbox in the neighborhood.  I have yet to see one so large.  We didn't really plan on it being so big, but we had a nice square shaped section already kind of "there".  So we just decided that would be the sandbox spot!

*Getting started

*I brought water :)

 *Overseeing.

 *Messy child.

 *Helping.

 *Almost done!  Just need to be a little deeper, then boarded in and filled with sand!  Hooray!