Our New Deck

This spring we thought that a deck would be a great addition to our back yard. Thanks to our tax rebate (and them some) we decided to go for it. Gordon was really hesitant about building it himself, but with a little encouragement he figured it out! The deal was he would build it if he got a new miter saw (which he got as an early Father's Day present), and if I would help him. It took us about 5 or 6 Saturdays to complete. We started the end of May and finished the beginning of July.

The first 2 weeks we worked on it every night after work and all day on saturdays. After a few weeks of that we got a little burned out.

I should have taken a before picture, but I didn't even think about pictures until we were a couple of weeks into the project. The above picture was taken about 2 full weeks into it.

The next step was putting on the steps, that took him another full week to perfect. Alot of cutting and measuring, then re-cutting and re-measuring. Thank goodness Gordon is so handy.

Gordon's new miter saw was really helpful while we were putting all of the trex pieces along the top and the sides!! (This picture is of Gordon working on the steps....still!)

Thank goodness for all of our great neighbors who played with Taeya while Gordon and I worked. This picture was taken on one of the few warm saturdays we had in the beginning of June. Taeya spent a lot of her time playing in this water table when she wasn't with one the neighbors.

Our deck is now complete. Doesn't it look good! Gordon really did an awesome job.

Before we started I didn't realize all that went into building a deck, but he thought of everything and figured it all out! We have really enjoyed it so far this summer. Hopefully we will enjoy it many more years to come!!