Fixing Up

This is the wood from our porch eaten by termites while we were gone.

On top of the termites the screens were rusted through and falling off.  All this lead to home improvements around here.

What a mess!

Thankful it turned out!

Then we moved onto a small basketball court.  Luka has been begging for one, so for his 13th birthday we gave him a gift certificate for one.  Luka had been playing on our water tower but it was only about 6ft high and since he has grown it wasn't much of a challenge anymore.  Now he can really play basketball!

What a learning process.  Making the court, finding parts and having the welder make the basketball hoop, putting it in right...  It was a test in patience.

But we made it!  This was Luka's first shot on the new court!

These are some of the termites that do so much damage around here!  They build their castles on anything.  You can literally leave wood or paper on the ground over night and the one side will be all eaten by the next day.  Plant a tree and they will sharpen the bottom like a pencil.  Can we get a good Michigan freeze please!!!

The termites ate the legs off this cupboard so we went with brick this time.

I also found some home improvements inside the house.  I love being creative!
I put black material on what was our green chair. 

Make some new pillow covers.

Grace made me these paintings

And Josh helped me make and put up new curtain holders in our house.
The kids think I am changing a lot of things.  I told them it will be 9 years ago in December we moved in, so it is time to improve a few things around here. (: