Christmas was filled with presents, food, and driving (Jen made those hooded towels for the girls for Christmas). We spent the morning with Jen's parents and then hit my folks for lunch and the afternoon. While I come from a family of 11 kids, only 6 live here in Utah and one of those was in California for the holiday. Five kids at my parents for Christmas really isn't that crazy and actually somewhat quiet compared to what we're accustomed!Today was very productive for us. As I mentioned in my last post, we are going to finish our basement. Unfortunately, I had my order of operations a little backward recently. I already rented the jackhammer and did some demolition to the cement floor. But we hadn't finished emptying the basement when I did that. Oops. Dust on everything.
We spent the day emptying the basement. I really wasn't looking forward to it because I had no desire to drag all our junk up from the basement, around the yard in the snow, and then to our shed. Luckily, a very smart woman I know suggested we take all our junk to the garage, back a trailer up to it, load the junk on the trailer, and then drive the trailer to the shed.
Genius!
We completely filled up a 8'x12' trailer with junk and then stuffed it in our 10'x16' shed with plenty of room to spare. Our basement is empty again for the first time since we moved in 5 years ago.
**Sidenote: By "we" I mean Jen, Abby, and myself. My wife is how "awesome wife" is defined in the dictionary. She was lugging stuff up the stairs, loading things on the trailer, tending the kids between loads up and down stairs, and helped unload it all in the shed -- out in the cold and snow. They don't come any better. End sidenote.
Now I really have no excuse to ignore the basement construction.
Empty Basement (but full garage)
Full Garage (but empty basement!)
Full Trailer (but empty garage!) Shed, here we come.
5 comments:
That was a lot of work just to do more work. Seth saw your bruised jack-hammered arm and feels really bad for you. Have fun finishing your basement.
How about posting a sketch of what the finished basement will look like? Is it going to be a man cave, complete with guitars, several flat screens, and BYU sports memorabilia?
Sheesh, and I was complaining about painting a bathroom and my hurting knees at the end of the day. My knees scream just to look at all you hauled out!
Mom, I'm half your age. Literally. When I'm 60 I won't be able to get out of bed. -Jess
Ewww to the dust. You should see our basement, it is a split level just like the main floor. We have the 1/3 upper basement level almost finished and created NASTY NASTY dust on the lower level in the process. Just plain NASTY.
So are you finishing the basement because of the "non-announcement" in the baby naming post? =) Just wondering.
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