Snow and Baby Pics

About two weeks ago, we had some crazy snow in Macon! It ended up being about 5 inches and it was beautiful! Belle especially loved the snow, she would even fetch a snowball! She had a blast!!













































On Monday after all the snow, one of our friends offered us a sneak peek ultrasound on our little one. David and I were both off of work so we headed to see her and it was awesome! The baby was moving all around, stretching it's arms and legs and even sucking his or her thumb! It was awesome!! Here's a few shots:







We headed back for our 14 week checkup with our regular doctor and everything looked great! Baby's heartrate was steady at 158! Yay!! We head in March 8th to find out if we having are little boy or a little girl!!

Gate and Arbor May 2009

When we got Belle I knew I had to do something about the small vinyl fence on the side of our house. I decided we would tear the vinyl fence down and put up some 6 foot dog-eared fence boards. Then I saw a picture of an arbor incorporated into a backyard fence entrance and thought it would look great on the side of our house.
I priced the pre-built arbors at ACE, Home Depot and Lowes and the cheapest one I could find was around $500 for a decent one. Of course like all other hard headed home owners I thought – I can build that! So I begun getting my materials together.
Of course I first contacted my inside hook-up for materials, my dad. He put in touch we the good guys over at Warner Robins Supply in Macon. I get the bulk of materials from them for around $110.00. Below is the items list:
- 4 – 4x6 10’ beams
- 15 6’ dog-eared fence boards
- 12 8’ 2x2 spindels
- 2 - 4’x8’ ¾ lattice
- 1 – 2x8 12’
- 2 – 2x6 16’
- 8 – r12 joist straps
- 3 pounds of Deckmate 3” screws
- 1 pounds of Deckmate 1 5/8” screws
- 4 - 7” 5/8 carriage bolts
- 2 – 2x4x12
- 1- Align-a-gate kit (lowes $40)
*The tools used were all cordless 19.2 volt Craftesman skill saw, sawzall and drill*

Once I had purchased half of Lowes and Warner Robins supply, I began carefully removing the old vinyl fence. I say carefully because I intended to use the confederate jasmine growing on it once the new structure is in place.
I completed the installation and construction in about two weeks. I used a gate kit from Lowes to build the gate and it has worked great! The hinge bolts had to be adjusted a few times, but once they were in good we were in business.

I planted another Jasmine plant on the other side of the lattice along with a climbing rose bush (Don Juan-red).

Here are some pics from May 2009:

Start


Working......

















Finished Work!!!!







(I WILL POST A PIC THIS SPRING ONCE EVERYTHING GETS BLOOMING)