Sunday, August 30, 2009

My porch is complete!

I had a fun visit from my parents this weekend. They came to Houston for Robbie Hansen's wedding. That was on Friday afternoon and I had them all the way until Sunday morning!
The big project this time was finishing the ceiling of the porch cover my dad built. We've been gradually doing more and more to it, but now I think it's about done! Katherine helped me pick up the bead board at Lowe's earlier this week. I stained some of it prior to their visit, but we did almost all of the work on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
We only had a ladder and a step stool, so my mom got creative with this Swiffer mop to help hold the boards in place while my dad drilled them into the beams.
After the ceiling was all in place, my dad added the ceiling fan! It works and is lovely out there! Good times with some GREAT parents! :)

6 comments:

Mom said...

I think it looks lovely!! Too bad you don't have pictures of sweat dripping off dad's face!!

Susannah said...

Oh yeah!! It looks so nice. I wish I were there to see it!

Wendy said...

Nice! We need to get together soon!

crack'n up ourselves said...

Looks great! YOur parents are so good to you!

Kristal said...

Stop putting so much cuteness into this house! I've already got a house for you here!!!

Kristal said...

Stop putting so much cuteness into this house! I've already got a house for you here!!!