My very own Handy-Man

Kody doesn't normally contribute very many ideas to this blog, and I don't think he's even looked at it since October! He just, very kindly, obliges when I want to take 50 pictures of our first Christmas tree and chuckles silently (rather than out loud) at me when I ramble about what I've recently written on the blog or attempt to show him the pictures I plan on putting up soon. So, the other day, when he said "Do you think you could write a blog about ..." I was so excited! Even if it is about him and how awesome he is :-), I love the fact that he thought to ask me to write about it! haha.

So here goes: I do live with my very own handy man. And while we do live in an apartment and there aren't too many "projects" for him to work on, he still has done his share of handy man work around our little home.

Project #1:Our grill
Apparently this wasn't a very hard project, but I was still impressed! When we first moved in, it was one of the first things he put together and he did it so fast! It's too cold to go outside and take a picture of the beautiful grill, but here's one from inside!



Project #2: Our futon
He had a little help with this one from his friend Caleb because the futon was ridiculously heavy and Caleb helped us shop for it. But again, he put it all together (very quickly) and continues to be my "handy man" whenever we pull it out to use. Many of our evenings are spent on that futon watching movies and sometimes we just end up having a "sleepover" on the futon if we're too tired after the movie to move back into our bed. But that's not the handy-man part. I can never get the futon to fold back up by myself (the mattress is pretty stiff), so my trusted and strong husband always comes to my rescue.

Project #3: Our bedroom furniture
Imagine the below photo in about 50 different small boards and bolts laying across our living room floor. We bought a "bedroom-in-a-box" set, so Kod "built" basically our entire bedroom - our dresser, nightstand, backboard and mirror (which is currently under our bed).

Please ignore the dirty laundry. Thanks!

Project #4: Our bathroom sink
This is the project that prompted Kody's request (and then together we brainstormed what other projects he had completed). We keep a lot of stuff under our sink in the bathroom, and I often forget what is back there in the depths of the cabinet. The other day I decided to pull out a bag to find out what was in it and possibly use what was in there (some lotion and Burts Bees products). But when I pulled it out, I discovered the bag was half filled with cold water! I was so confused and called Kody in to have him take a look. Nothing else in the cabinet was wet, just the water in my bag. To make a short story even shorter, Kody checked out the pipes, but we couldn't get it to leak again. So I left the bag out to dry and we left all the stuff in the cabinet. The next morning, we had a very soggy cabinet. It leaked. But my handy-man checked it out again and fixed the problem completely! No more leaking under our sink!

I’m sure there will be many more projects to come and even after just six months of marriage, I am fully confident that my handy man can conquer whatever task is put in front of him!