Weekend......

So this weekend we built a new deck for our house. When I say we I mean I organized the food and my hubby, his friend from work, dad-in-law and mom-in-law (once friend from work left) worked on getting deck built on Saturday. Sunday was hubby and dad-in-law and Monday was me and hubby. We had gone to Home Depot with hubby's drawings of what he would like the deck to look like. They gave us a plan with required materials. This was done a year ago. So we went back this year after getting the stimulus check and asked them to update it if needed. They said it was fine as is but prices were lower on some things. Well for starters hubby had to go back for the stair stringers that were left off the materials list and a few other pieces. About 5 extra trips were made to HD over the weekend. Some for missing parts, some for broken parts, some because estimated materials was less than what was actually needed. So the supposed final cost of roughly $450 was sooooooo off. I think it ended up costing around $600 total for the deck. About $100 more than anticipated on our end as I'd allowed $100 extra to begin with from the cost on the HD printout for stain that we are holding off a year of (and extras). So Monday I was helping and got a bad sunburn on my neck. I can't wear shirts with tags or regular t-shirts because they make it feel worse. I was wearing a scoop neck shirt outside that day....and didn't think of sunblock even with it being 80 degrees and about 9 to 1 that we were outside. OOPS!

I'll post the pics I took of the deck later when my comp is cooperating with me better.

Weigh in this week is on Thursday. Monday class was cancelled due to the holiday and Wednesday night had to be pushed back a day because it worked better for everyone's schedule. My oldest daughter is bridging up in Girl Scouts that night so I'd be late and since it's at my house (and they didn't feel comfy sitting with my hubby until I got here LOL) we postponed it to the next day. :)

Well I'm off to have dinner soon. ~Hugs~Jen