The downside to living so far away is that for three day weekends, you do not have family to visit as you might normally do; however, the upside is we had three days to get some stuff done! We spent the majority of the time doing a few projects that had been on our "to-do" lists for quite some time. The biggest one was working on the garage. In Florida, there is a very limited amount of storage space. Houses don't have basements since Florida is basically a large swamp, and instead built on concrete slabs. Due to the high humity, you can't store very much stuff in your attic without taking a chance that it might be ruined. So you are left with just your garage. Needless to say, our garage was very cluttered! We could fit the van in there, but just barely, and the rest was covered with boxes, totes, and other odds and ends. Here is our "before" picture:
Pretty messy, right? It was, and although we still have A LOT more work to do, it does look much better! Here is our "after" picture:
We have some more shelves to put up, and Eric is going to hang some pegboard for his tools, but there is finally plenty of walking room around the van!
We also wanted to get the kids' sand table cleaned up, filled with sand, and in a spot where the kids could actually use it. Our backyard is a muddy, weedy mess, and needs TONS of attention. We are planning on working on it (s-l-o-w-l-y), but at least we made a teeny, tiny, bit of progress this weekend. We even put the kids to work!
Before:
And after........
The kids were so excited to have this. Ava even told me, "Mom, we have a park in our backyard! We have our own pool, a playhouse, a slide, a HUGE trampoline, and now we have a sandbox!" It kept them entertained for quite awhile! And here is sneak peek at our next project for the backyard:
We have five palm trees in our backyard, and need to do something around the base of them. I will show you the end result when we have it done............hopefully sometime this summer! :-)
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