Bill the builder

We decided to join a home group at our church at the beginning of the summer.  Our group is trying something new where we meet as families have dinner and then trade off one parent leaving with the kids while the other stays and then switch.  The problem was that they needed a house that could keep everyone and it not bother them to have lots of kids playing and running around.  Welcome to the Mahrer’s!  That kind of thing doesn’t bother us at all and our house is always chaos with toys so really it’s not much different.  The problem was that we needed a table.  We sold our dining room table before Briggs came around and our kitchen table is just too small for 6 families.  A normal person would head to a furniture store and buy one.  Not B.  He decided to make one.  He’d been talking about it, but this gave him the drive to do so.

 

The boys LOVED helping him along the way

We also got a new chandelier.  The original one try to kill me one day by falling down and it took over a year for someone to get around to buying a new one.  So happy to FINALLY have light in the dining room.

I love this!  B burned this into the wood.

Since we have so many kids here between Home Group and playgroups he built a bench for one side so we could squeeze more hineys on one side.

I LOVE the ‘kid’ chair in the middle.  Reminds me so much of the blue chair Grammy had that Aunt Linda stole.  The chairs we purchased and they just happened to be the perfect match to the table legs.

 

The bench.  Still needs the clear finish, but we’re happy with it!

My favorite part  

A little fantasy football draft/coloring time with chocolate milk tonight.

 

The shelves in the back have to go, but we have a kitchen to renovate OURSELVES (please start praying for my sanity now) before that happens.