Our Sandbox

After countless trips to Lowes and Home Depot and countless weeks of hard work, the sandbox is finally DONE!!!

We were planning this for a long time and are so excited to finally be DONE and just enjoy it. We researched a lot before deciding exactly what we wanted. Have to give huge, HUGE praise to Brad for doing this. I cannot tell you how much I LOVE that he did this for us all to enjoy. It was somewhat of a strain on him when he overdid it lifting with his hernia (believe me I helped with the lifting, he just thought he took it easy but didn't enough), but he was determined to get it done. It just took longer than we would have liked for that reason and others. :) But he persevered. :)

First we spent 45+ minutes testing our sprinklers to avoid a sprinkler head that appeared to be right where we wanted to put the sandbox. (This was after contemplating FOREVER where we wanted it of course.) We were about to call the sprinkler company when I finally dug into the alleged "sprinkler head" and found this. Are you kidding me?






Weekend One













Weekend Two

I believe then there was one weekend where we were not able to do anything because of rain and other life events getting in the way. However I think during the week that week we did pick out the outdoor fabric on sale!







Weekend Three of Four :)

The kids have wanted to help with every bit of the sandbox. Sanding was the perfect chore for them!












Staining adventures! After dropping the entire first gallon, yes GALLON of stain onto our kitchen floor, yes KITCHEN FLOOR, we got the sandbox stained Saturday.










ALMOST all the way covered Sunday, finished Monday. (The power went out in our neighborhood, pushing us to later kid's bedtime, therefore running out of daylight for finishing the fabric as planned. :) Always somethin. The fun part was we got to visit a bit with our neighbors as a lot of people headed outside instead of sitting inside in their dark houses! :))

And I was amazed that the under side of the fabric, which is actually more white than the outside, looks just like the outside when it is put up! Woo hoo!


Tuesday and Wednesday This Week: SAND! SAND! SAND!
So. Much. Sand.



And now nothing but fun fun fun! Thank you Daddy/Brad!!! We love the new sandbox!