We are hugely thankful for some awesome men this weekend! When we bought our house the inspector told us that the decks were in ok shape and could use a board here and there replaced. Fast forward two years and that was farther from the case. Our back deck is large and attached to our house 1/2 a story off the ground (we have a split level house). It had no supports in the middle on the deck and the posts of the deck were not put in well. This was causing the deck to sag and wobble. Our front deck was just a ticking time bomb for someone to fall threw. By the landing to get into our house they only put down a piece of plywood and covered it with indoor-outdoor carpeting. It was sagging and not in good shape. Additionally we had a chicken wire fence between us and our neighbors that was rather beat up from a tree falling on it. All of the equated to some large safety concerns around our home.
Friday night Dan's dad and younger brother came down and spent the night at our house. Early Saturday morning everyone got up and Brent, Dan, Dan's dad and brother, and my dad all got to work on all three projects! By Sunday afternoon everything was done and we now have two safe decks and a new fence. I am super grateful for everyone's hard work and for giving up their time to help us.
While they were working Saturday morning Jilli and I went to my cousin's bridal shower and once we came home all Jilli wanted to do was sit in a chair and watch them work. It was like she was the little foreman on the project. It was adorable.
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| The guys put in the second row of posts |
New PT:
Monday was a busy day! In the morning Jilli and I worked on laundry. Jillian had an 11:45 PT eval at New Berlin Clinic. We talked with the therapists and they did an assessment of her gross motor skills. They diagnosed Jilli with low muscle tone in her legs. Her joints are also able to rotate and move more then they should. Jilli is going to start PT once a week for 45min. We are doing to do PT and speech back on Mondays so we don't have to drive to Elkhorn twice.
Yesterday it worked out for the eval though that we had to be at the clinic from 11:45-12:30 and 4:30 to 5:15. This left a big gap in the middle of the day that we were not sure what we were going to do. Seth said that we could come and visit them at Yerke's Observatory in Willem's Bay to see where he has been working this summer. Jilli and I got a personal tour of the building and got to see where they are living. It was REALLY cool! We were able to stand in a room Einstein once stood in. We got to see really interesting parts of an old building. I loved it. Jilli was more or less along for the ride but she loved listening to her voice echo in the domes. Thanks Seth and Mikaley for giving us a personal tour!
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| Jilli and Mikaley looking at the Big Telescope! |
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| They still use the same control panel |
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| Jillian walking around with her feeding tube backpack (I wonder how many people have tube fed in the observatory....). She liked to hear the echo |
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| We were looking at old books. Jilli's eyes were big at the sight of a room with so many books |
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| A picture of Albert Einstein in the observatory. |
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