Projects

When my parents came out to help after Justin was born (9 years ago this May), my Dad came up with the idea to build stacked-to-the-ceiling shelving units for storage space in our one car garage. My brother, Jared, was here to help. So, Travis, Jared and my Dad went to work all that week in the garage. Bless them. Ever since then, we have USED those shelves.

After living in this house for nearly 9 years and adding two more kids to our crew, we just have more stuff. Now that we have another munchkin with all of her munchkin things, we have been starting to feel a bit crowded in our home sweet home. We have four bedrooms but hardly ANY storage space throughout the house. Small rooms, small closets, no basement, you get the picture. I have been getting good at purging and passing on things we don't really need anymore. But as Travis tells me now, "We can't throw away everything!"

When my parents came out to help with Allie when she was born, my Dad came up with a new solution for our garage: Building a garage-wide suspended storage unit over the garage door. He and Travis worked hard for more than a week to build an awesome storage space. It was so funny one day when my dad was drilling into the ceiling of the garage which in directly below our bedroom where I was rocking Allie. I knocked a loud "Hello" on my wall, "Da, da-da-da-da..." and he answered with a "da-da" knocked on the ceiling. It cracked me up that I could hear him laughing down there. Here is the final beauty:

We really think this new space will allow us to stay in our house for quite a while longer. It has been so nice to have a "hidden" place to stash some big things like our artificial Christmas tree, luggage, etc.

The boys have been sharing a bunkbed in the biggest bedroom for the past year. We still have Allie's crib set up in our bedroom and have just stashed all her stuff and random toys, books, whatever in the middle bedroom. Then we have a so called "guest room" that ends up being stashed with everything else we don't know what to do with in our house.

So, while the boys have been begging for their own rooms, we have given in and are in full re-arranging mode.