Super Sand Box

So, Tim has been planning a sand box/water fun area since before Alex was born. For those of you who visited our SC house, he had the perfect spot picked out at the end of the garden and between the garage and the neighbor's fence. It was strategically placed so it could be seen from the kitchen and was next to our patio. Leaving our backyard was one of the hardest parts of leaving SC, so I guess it makes sense we ended up renting a house on stilts with a huge play area underneath. I don't think we were in this house a week before Tim decided Alex's future sandbox would be created by boxing in 4 of the stilts, but we were waiting for Alex to get bigger and to see if we would stay in the house for another year. Now that we have resigned our lease and it's warm (almost too warm for March!) out, we have our super sand box!

We calculated that we would need about 2.5 cubic yards of sand ... that's 128 bags of sand from Lowes!!! Since we've already experienced carrying heavy things from Lowes to the car and from the car to the house way more times than we want to remember (think soil for our garden last year, tile for the entire downstairs of our SC house, and all those pavers for the patio and sidewalk), we opted for having a truck deliver sand from a nearby soil/rock store. The truck driver was not willing to drive through our yard to get the sand close to the sand box, so I had to have him dump it in the driveway. We then borrowed the neighbor's wheelbarrow and got to work. Thankfully, Alex helped!

The pile of sand (redneck sandbox)!	Whoa, Mommy brought the beach to our house!
Tim worked late the night the sand was delivered, so we just played in the driveway!	So what’s the deal with all this wood?
Alex helping Mommy fill the wheelbarrow.	Alex undoing Mommy’s progress. (That’s drool, not sweat!)
The next morning, Alex was a very happy boy!	Filling his bucket with sand.
He will put sand into anything!