Its finally done

I think I can say its finally done.  We may have a few more screws to put in and want to put door handles on the gates to make it easier to open but as far as I'm concerned we are finished!  It took a lot longer than we thougth and the next big house project we do Brent is going to take a few days off work in the beginning.  Thanks to everyone who helped.  Our friends moved during the middle of it who helped so much in the beginning.  Anthony - you taught us well and wish you could see the finished result.

The past few weeks we've worked on it a little at a time after putting Joel to bed.  Colin has gotten into being a construction guy and his favorite thing to watch on tv right now is hgtv or diy network.  He has his own orange cones and he places them around his construction site.  He even has the left over wood scraps and used them to build road, sky scrapers, houses in the back yard.  Colin even keeps all his tools in the back of daddy's truck since worker tools go in trucks.  And he will yell to anyone walking by our house "us constructions guys in this family!"  Colin loves when its "fence day" and we work on the fence.  Brent and I have been ready to be done for weeks now but I think Colin could go all summer building the fence. Colin has been a huge help this whole time.

Joel even got into the action and helped build the gates.

We just have to take a truck load of wood back to the store and will be able to sit back and relax in our newly fenced in yard.

Little one is a little upset that he can't go through the gate he worked so hard to build.  Which is why I wanted the latch at the top of the gate.  But then I came out tonight to see the new super cool trick Colin wanted to show me and he climbed up the fence and opened the latch.  His response was "Daddy taught me!" Mommy wasn't too happy with Daddy at that point (and still isn't too happy about this trick). But Brent worked hard on the fence and he did a great job.  I'm enjoying having our yard fenced in and can't wait to start landscaping next to the fence.