Happy New Year 2010

We were hoping to spend the New Year in Scotland, but the airline ticket prices were insanely high.

We decided to try to embrace the local options here in Fort Lauderdale (also called "the Venice of America") and spend the evening on a boat crusing the different canals.

It was a perfect, warm night for a boat ride & we had a perfect evening. Much love to all our family and friends with warm wishes that you also had a beautiful celebration to ring in 2010.

Happy Holidays 2009!

From our home to yours, Merry Christmas! The picture above is the closest we were able to get to a family pic for this year with our tree.

Some of our outtakes are in the album below.

Day Eighteen: Little Rocks

Today we needed to move all the little rocks left from where we jacked out the slab so only sand was left.



Sweetness told me to think of the day's work as a glamerous day at the beach playing in the sand. It was nothing of the sort!

In the video below, we lay out as the plan for the day.

Next, we check in on Sweetness (bel0w) and his new contraption.

In the video below, we show you all the work we did today. Six hours and countless wheelbarrow trips into the day, we actually did move all those little rocks to the dumpter.

The slideshow below shows some pictures we took today:

Day Seventeen: Good Bye, Jack Hammer

Today we share our plan to finish the jackhammering and offer you a final chance to see our sunken concrete slab.

As you can see in the video below, we've come a LONG way since Day Ten when we posted, "Uh, What are we Going to Do with this Concrete???" after a miserably failed attempt to use a sledgehammer to break it up.

Our wrap up for today is posted below. Join us in saying, "Goodbye, Sledge Hammer!!"

Ed says concrete weighs about 145lbs per cubic square foot. We think that means we've moved 23 thousand pounds of concrete. DANG!!!

Here's a sample of what we used to see when we opened the front door (pre-demo):

NOW- Take a look at a snapshot from the same vantage point:

Here is the photo album from today:

Day Sixteen: Whose Idea was this Jackhammer anyways?!

Day Sixteen begins:

Here's a shot of the Man in action:

I couldn't help but fire up the camera and ask Sweetness a few questions mid-day:

The wrap up is posted below:

And lastly, here is the conclusion of Day Sixteen:

This is a slideshow of a few pics we took:

Day Fifteen: Rock Moving

Day Fifteen begins!

With reluctance, our Man with the Plan allows me to tape him with his new safety hat on:

As you'll see in our pictures below, we had very special guests visiting today!!

Danielle's comment was that so far she's seen a lot to indicate Sweetness is good at destruction but nothing to indicate Sweetness is good at creation YET!

Brenda's comment was that when she saw our posting "We've Got A Live One", she couldn't help but think an electrical fire might be the best thing that could happen to this house.

Our wrapup video is below. If you are not impressed with our progress, then you have obviously never spent a day moving rocks.

Lastly, here are some pictures.

Day Fourteen: Lovin' the Jackhammer

Day 14 begins with the Man with the Plan telling us the what we'll do today:

What he didn't say as a part of today's plan, is it means he uses the machine while I tread back & forth with rocks in a wheel barrow from the house to the dumpster. When he sneaks away for a break, I decided to take a shot with the jackhammer as you see in the video below.

OK, I'll admit, I can hold my own when it comes to pulling down walls (Day Tw0) or ripping out bathrooms (Day Four) or even kicking out plaster (Day Six), but when it comes to pulling up a SIXTY FIVE pound jackhammer over and over, I'm nothing compared to The Man.

Check him out in action below:

I had to leave to to work before the day was done, so Sweetness shows us in the video below everything done on Day 14.

Here is a slideshow of a couple pics we snapped.

HINT: Use the options on the bottom of the slideshow to display the captions or pause the pictures.

We would love you hear from you. Have you ever used a jackhammer before??????