Fun in the Sun

Tucker loves laying on the new deck boards in the sun. 

Oh to be a dog. They have such easy lives. 

Deck Work So Far

Here’s all we got done on the deck rebuild yesterday. 

The boys got almost half of the deck completed yesterday. T worked hard with his dad all day yesterday. I love that he enjoys learning how to do things from his dad. 

Back Door Is On

Got the new back door on today. It took a little longer than we had anticipated but hey it’s done. All that’s left is some touch ups. We’ll get to that at some point...LOL!  Tomorrow we do some more work on the deck. 

Oh My Goodness😳

T has grown so much that his sweat pants don’t fit. We are going to have to buy some more😳. Jeepers. Another expense that we frankly expect to have with a growing child but the timing isn’t good😞. 

Thank you Lord for always supplying all our needs even when we don’t know how those needs will be met.  We thank you for the work coming in to bring the supply. We just thank you in advance. In Jesus Name. Amen! 

Always Learning

T loves to help out and learn how to do practical things. A pic of T helping cut extra support boards for the deck. Just want to give a little added support to our original boards.  

Hindsight is 2020 (Pun intended)

Well, we went and got our first load of deck boards with the van today. We also got some support boards as well and they came in to the tune of $450. I think that included the bucket of screws we got but that only covers maybe half the deck. The deck boards were twice the price ($23 a board, I think🤔 ) of what they were a few weeks ago when we went to check the pricing🙄. Just another thing we can thank the pandemic of 2020 for😡. With us not anticipating the cost to be that high that kinda threw us somewhat. It has to be done though so just another cost we are eating😞. 

Front Door

This is after two coats of paint. It’s currently drying but looks great. It’s giving a fresh new look to the house. Once we put a new storm door on it will look even sharper. Once it’s dry we will decide weather it needs a third coat or not. 

My Fighter

T is constantly trying to improve and get better. He’s had a lot of bad habits to have to break from former training before he was with the coaches he’s with now. It’s a constant battle to get new habits formed in him to replace the bad habits. This video is a good moment from his training. 

Back Door

Back door got damaged from the water the house took on while we had no gutters and the issues we were having with the roofers and our roof being open to the elements for 7 days. And as with everything so far, we go to replace the door and we have sheet rock fall apart as we were taking the framing off to take the door out. There’s always more challenges to deal with along with trying to get a task done. We are praying there are no more issues to have to deal with. We just keep finding things and that’s frustrating for us. It is also equally frustrating that we can’t feel safe in our own home because of the water damage that happened to it😞. 

This first picture is the lower part of the door that crumbled in Scot’s hands as he was taking the framing off. The framing has mold spores building on it so it will have to be replaced. 

This picture shows how wet the sheet rock is half way up the door where the frame used to be.  As you know sheet rock holds water and falls apart like you saw in the first picture. 

Keep us in your prayers as we deal with the problems that have been popping up from the water damage. Pray in agreement with us. Pray for an expedient and excellent job to be done in repairing all the problems. That our home is restored to what it was before all this damage happened to it. And also pray that with the rains that will be coming in from the hurricane that we have no more leaks coming into our home. Pray for the Lord to give us favor in getting all that needs to be done done. Pray that He works on the hearts of the workers and staff of the company that even if they are meaning to do harm that the Lord will turn it around for our good and His glory. Thank you!  

In The Meantime

In the meantime while we wait we are replacing old outside light fixtures that are rusted through. Getting the new back door ready to be installed on the house. Organizing the house some more. And just taking care of odds and ends that need doing around the house. It’s crazy times we’re living in. If not for the pandemic I’d have been hard pressed to be here to help with all of this cause I’d have still been traveling for training/tournaments. At least everything is getting taking care of now though. 

I stood on the inside because there was yet another wasp nest. Scot killed it though.