Important note to start out this post: We are buying a new house and selling our current house. This has been in the works since August, but things have been pretty slow. The owners of our new house needed to wait until mid-October to move, and the buyer of our current house wasn't in any hurry to move in. One of the perks (totally sarcastic!!) of selling a house is finding out all of the things that are wrong with it . . . first up, foundation repair! The signs were pretty obvious with the cracking above doors and floor pulling away from the baseboards, but the major spring rains combined with the major summer drought really added to the problem. The fix was to dig under the east and west sides of the house and use these concrete cylinders to lift the house back where it was sagging. The team arrived at 8:30 on Thursday morning and began their work.
All holes dug under the house, and that was a lot of dirt and shrubs just lying around. In a few spots they had to drill through concrete. Not a quite job!
They dug really deep!! Like when the guy climbed down in there to set up the pillars, his head was barely poking out of the ground.
They got all of the holes prepped on Thursday and planned to come back on Friday to do the actual lifting. No clue what to expect!! While they were working on Friday morning, Beau and Mommy were busy at home. We had a play date scheduled after school with Canon and Case. Canon and Lincoln had a birthday party to attend that Mommy would chaperone, and Beau and Case would hang at Case's house with Ms. Katrina. Everyone was excited, until Canon got a bit of a fever and wasn't feeling so awesome. His mom decided he needed to bail on the fun, but Beau thought otherwise. He had worked out a plan earlier that since Lincoln and Canon would be getting cupcakes at the birthday party, he and Case should get something sweet too. So we got a cookie cake for the little brothers. Beau decided that he would deliver the cookie cake to Canon and Case so they still got a treat . . . after he got a giant piece reserved for himself at home!! He loved walking it over to their house and leaving them a fun surprise. He has a sweet and kind heart after all!
We went out for a little lunch and shopping and returned to the "lifting" action. It was pretty loud and involved a bit of shaking of the walls and windows. We were happy to pick Lincoln up from school in the afternoon and spend some time in the library. Lincoln found Crawford taking AR quizzes too, and they worked quietly.
Beau grabbed a few of his favorite magazines and comics then made himself comfortable in one of the reading lofts. He can't wait to get real library time next year in Kindergarten!
After the library fun, we headed to Kyle's birthday party at Lil' Ninjas! Beau took Canon's spot since he had been under the weather. Lil' Ninjas is always a favorite, and they had Campisi's pizza and cake!!! That's a good looking table of awesome school friends, and we were happy to wish Kyle a happy birthday.
When we got home, it was almost like the foundation repair had never happened! The guys and their equipment were gone, the shrubs and dirt were replaced like before, they had poured a new layer of concrete on the spots they had jackhammered up, and all of the cracks and separated spots were back to normal. It was a little unbelievable that it happened so fast!
Flag Football came pretty early on Saturday morning, but the boys were ready to play! Let's get another win in the books!
Someone woke up with extra crazy shark hair, and we just rolled with it. (They have an appointment with Mr. Danny soon because this is crazy wild!)
It was colder than we had anticipated, so Daddy warmed Lincoln up on the sidelines with a beach towel from the car.
The Saugier's brought donuts to enjoy after the game, and Beau was the happiest about that. Having to sit in the early morning cold to watch big brother definitely earned a donut!
The weekend had so many activities . . more on the way!
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