April -- House Painted
May -- Deck stained
June -- Swing set built and twins turn two
July -- sister-in-law wedding
August -- Twins new room
Sept -- Baby Prep
Okay so some will say cost -- how much did all of this cost -- much less than you think. The house was painted by professionals. My house is much too tall to paint safely. Besides the even cleaned the gutters :-)
Deck stained well that was only two gallons of stain to paint the deck. And we did it ourselves.
The swing set -- now here is an awesome deal. Our neighbor knew that we where going to start to look for a swing set for the twins. Well a friend of theirs had a relatively new cedar swing set. Well cedar never really goes bad. It weathers -- but it too can be stained to look brand new. The wood was in great shape. The swings needed replacing and the bolts needed replacing but those are really easy to do. I found a company on-line called boltdepot.com which had every bolt I needed to replace the bolts and then some. The swing set parts which needed to be replaced came from an online company called playsetparts.com. Even a new canopy came without problems. They even called to make sure the canopy was made correctly before they ordered. Simply awesome.
Sister-in-law wedding was awesome. We had so much fun being involved and where happy to see them married.
The new "big girl room" for the twins. Well that was just moving furniture out, painting the walls, putting in new furniture - most of it obtained from other relatives and then calling it their own.
Then the new baby the end of September. Wow.
Six months and things really change quickly.
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