Start of Construction

The construction finally started on June 12^th.  The kids were so excited to watch the backhoe and dump truck.  We cancelled all of our plans those days I was home to watch the construction.  The hole they made was massive.  The amount a dirt we got was crazy.  The kids enjoyed playing on the dirt pile when Brian was home.  The foundation was done by the end of June. 

Nana came up for a visit.  She helped me clean the garage and pack up my house.  What I am most nervous about this project is the breaking down our walls to our house for the new addition.  There is so much we will need to do when the time comes.  She baked with the kids and everyone had a really good time.  Brian and I even went on a date to Cheesecake factory.  It was great. 

Things were moving along with the construction for about 10 days and then we got the news lumbar will not be delivered for several weeks.  So basically not much will be done until mid-July.  That did not make me too happy.  I so want this project to be over and it basically just started. 

Sydney has been playing Tball.  She seems to like it.  Austin wanted to play baseball but that was the same time as track and Austin chose track.  I did sign him up for a tball league with Sydney this summer but our schedules have been crazy and they have missed the last 3 weeks.  Hopefully they will get to go a few times. 

We are going camping for the first time this year near Cedar Point.  Since we have passes we thought we would do that.  This summer is going to be crazy busy with the addition so we wanted to squeeze it in now. 

Camping was a lot of fun.  Brian is getting good at preparing and moving the camper.  It seemed so hard last year but I think he has in down this year.  We left late on Friday around 6pm.  We could not find Sydney’s Kindle.  Kids were not helping us much so that delayed us leaving a bit.  We got to campsite around 7:30pm.  We set up camp and had a little fire.  Kids wanted to swim but we said it was too late. 

On Saturday morning, we went to Cedar Point.  Brian took Austin to get his 48 inch band.  Sydney and I rode the sky ride.  Austin did a few roller coaster.  Sydney rode on some kids rides.  We had lunch in the truck and then moved the truck to the waterpark area.  We went swimming.  It was cool especially with the wind.  But we all went swimming and had some fun.  Austin got really cold so then we changed and went back into the park. 

Austin decided he wanted to ride the Magnum but we made him ride Gemini first. I rode Gemini first with Austin.  I was holding on and he had his hands in the air.  Then Brian rode Gemini with him then went to Magnum.  Austin loved it.  He said his favorite ride was Magnum.  Then we left to go back to the campsite.  We let the kids swim at the pool for a bit.  We ate dinner.  Then Austin and Brian made a great campfire and we had awesome smores.  Kids also enjoyed catching fireflies. 

On Sunday, we decided to go back to Cedar Point since we were already up there.  Brian had a lot of work to do but he made it happen.  We went towards the back of the park since we had the camper. It worked out because there were no lines for rides.  We played in camp Snoopy area again.  Then rode the train around the park which the kids enjoyed.  And the one last thing they wanted to do was sing with Snoopy.  We were in line right at 1pm for them to do that.  Austin sang Cleveland Rocks and Sydney sang ABC’s.   Then we drove home.  Austin and Sydney were really sad to leave.  But Austin is learning about at least having the opportunity to do all these things.  So he was grateful for that.