Monday, March 10, 2008

Saturday Projects

Inbetween the festivities for Hannah, we were able to get quite a few things done around the house.

I caught up on laundry, worked on school stuff and quarterly reports.

Brian had several jobs lined up. The first being the leaking drain under the kitchen sink. He had all the material on hand and made quick work of this job. Dan loves to help Daddy and is always close at hand to offer any advice as needed.



The next order of business was to put down the new carpet in Dan's room. We had purchased the carpet and pad a few weeks ago. This job took a bit longer, but the end result was great. Dan's new room is turning out so cute. I hope to past before and after pictures soon. We have a few more details to finish first.

The kids had a ball playing with the big carpet tube.
The filled it with cars and then watched them "race" out.

The last project of the day was to add a wireless router for our computers. The "main" computer didn't have an Ethernet card, so Brian installed that. So far, so good. Hooking up the router was no problem. Installing the router software, so we could make it a secured network, was a problem. After a lot of fiddling, several computers and a lot of thrashing, Brian finally figured out what the problem was. Woohoo, we have wifi! This is a great addition for all the computer users in the house.

Don't I look techie? I had no clue how to fix the problem!

8 comments:

Laura said...

That picture of the carpet roll took me back! That was one of the best "toys" we ever had!! Our boys used it just like your kids - to send cars racing through. They also propped it up against their bed and slid down it like an angled firepole. :)

berrypatch said...

Never admit you stage a photo - first rule of blogging and scrapbooking too. LOL ;-) Congrats on the wifi! I'm so very jealous. :-)

Debbie said...

Oh, Lisa, the picture wasn't staged. We tried all the computers and everything we could think of to get it to work. Brian finally thrashed his way through and found something that was still active that needed to be inactive. He took the picture of me with all the computers.

Debbie said...

Oh, Lisa, the picture wasn't staged. We tried all the computers and everything we could think of to get it to work. Brian finally thrashed his way through and found something that was still active that needed to be inactive. He took the picture of me with all the computers.

Romany said...

LOL! Rolling cars down a tube! I just remmebered Jack used to love that sort of thing!{g}

Jodi said...

We too had a carpet roll that wasn't allowed to be thrown away for about a year.

Computer hassles are so annoying! Hope you got it all sorted out in the end.

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Love the fun with the carpet roll. Looking forward to the photos of DAn's room. Yay! Glad you go the wifi working too.

Cynthia said...

You sure got a lot of projects done quickly! Don't you just LOVE wireless!