Night at the Museum

The sod house project may or may not be headed to some history museum in Baltimore. Details are sketchy, lol. More info to follow later... :-)

The Sod House Project - Day 3 (Finishing Touches!)

Maddie and Joseph worked on the sod house project on Monday and finished it up. It looks great! She better get an A or Joseph said he's going to "talk" to her teacher... you know, the Italian way... LOL.

The Finished Product

Extreme Makeover: Sod House Edition
Meet the design team... Maddie and Joe!

Maddie and her project

The House

The Farm
(this is the part I helped with)

Maddie's Bridge

The Hitching PostThe Family Pet
(but there is no family because the people you could buy at
the store were smaller than the animals...weird!)

The Chopping Block
(If Maddie doesn't get that A... LOL)

Evil came for a visit

And so did Evil Jr.
(They were trying to make it look like the house was under attack.)

And I love these two, why??? :-)

Joseph's bringing sexy back, lol, and Karen and Maddie are just being goofy!

Posse Up, Yo!

Taking A Break

We did give Maddie some short "union breaks" from the sod house project but not as many as she probably would've liked!

Playing with Katie
Showing off her dress-up girl

The Sod House Project - Day 2 (Building a House)

Mixing up the strips of "sod"

Laying the first row of sod
Working Hard
The walls are up and now it's time to raise the roof.
(and yes, I say that with hands pumpin' up in the air, LOL)Maddie and Joseph working on the roof while I glue in the garden veggies.
I think Joseph likes this project better than Maddie does!
(But she's been working really hard to get it done,
they're having fun and she's learning along the way.)
Here's how it looks at the end of the day today:

Maddie and Joseph are going to finish it up next Monday with a sod and clay roof, a fence around the garden, some farm animals and some other pioneer-type decorations. I know I'm a little biased but this thing looks great! And I've learned something too because I never heard of a sod house before this project so Maddie and Joseph have been teaching me along the way.

The Sod House Project - Day 1 (Getting Started)

Maddie has to do a project for school where she has to write a report about and build a model of a sod house. On Saturday we spent most of the day out gathering the supplies and then Joseph and Maddie got to work on creating the ground layout for it.

A River Runs Through It
(and a hill, and a farm, and the floor for the house...)