The playhouse comes to Indiana....

We had a phone message when we got home last Wednesday night that Mother and Daddy decided that this weekend would be the better one after all to bring the playhouse. The kids were scheduled for a sleep over at the Englands the night that they would arrive. We decided to keep those plans and surprise the kids with the "finished" playhouse. It felt funny not having them but it was by far the better plan since they would have been wanting to be in the big middle of the construction. We finished it up just in time to go meet them on Friday. Boy, were the kids surprised to see Grandpa and Grandma. Then we brought them home to a playhouse in the backyard. It is an ongoing project but I think it is adorable like it is. Dad had saved the roof job until Saturday morning. We used up the pleasant morning hrs. sipping coffee and chatting, waiting on the kids to get up. Then the day got hot and the kids wanted to play in the pool. Before long it started to look like rain so Dad had to go put on the tar paper in his swimming clothes (hence the green shorts). We have had shingles in the garage from when they built our house and now we are finally able to use them. We had just enough too! A light was installed because they may want to play in there after dark. :-) Thank you Mother and Daddy for a delightful and whimsical playhouse. We LOVE it!

Playhouse 2008