Parkinson Family: My Husband the Handyman

Saturday, January 21, 2012

My Husband the Handyman

Okay, so when I married Aaron, I knew he was a wonderful guy. But, the longer we are married, the more he surprises me. Fortunately, most of those surprises are good. The longer I am married to Aaron, the more I learn about him, and that's fun! And, the more I learn about him, the more I grow to love him.
Anyway, this winter he has gotten busy on a bunch of projects around our home. I have been so amazed and impressed with his handyman skills. Even more impressive to me is the fact that he wasn't born with them, and they don't even come naturally for him. He has really gotten out of his comfort zone even since we were married and made it a goal to learn how to do things on his own. I am just so proud of him! Okay, enough babbling and I'll show you the pictures....

Two summers ago, Aaron built this two-car garage in our backyard. This is his workshop/ truck and toy shelter. He did an incredible job, I think. Since the weather has been cold and there is less to do outdoors (especially without snow) he had been busy sheet rocking and organizing his garage. Now, that's some man cave!

I also never knew when I married Aaron that he cared so much about things being organized. Wow- I thought I was an organization freak, but I guess I'm not.

I wish I had the before pictures but forgot to take one. Since we will be moving some bedrooms around within the next few months due to our new addition, Aaron went ahead and built some organizing shelves in two of the downstairs bedroom closets. He just came up with it all on his own. I helped a little- speckling, caulking, and masking, and he did the rest.

Then Aaron got out in our garage and built a large shelf in the back corner for other big things in our garage to make some room.

And, last but not least, we were so sick of the clutter of bikes all over in the way so he made a bike rack out of wood for the side of our garage. I was really happy about this. Now we just hope that the kids will use it :)

I realized the other day that not many things make me happier than a good honey-do list done. The other day Aaron dropped everything and did all my honey-do's. I was one happy honey. So, I can't help but brag a little. I never knew I married such a handyman but boy is he ever!

5 comments:

VickiJanuary 22, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Great job Aaron. I am super impressed. NOT surprised at all !! Very cool and AMBER... thanks for documenting it along the way. It's so fun to see the improvements. What a sense of accomplishment. What a great example to your children of the blessings of work and the labor of love for the good of the family.
Sure love each of you. Thanks for your examples!!
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SarahJanuary 23, 2012 at 11:08 AM
That's a lot of projects and they all look awesome! The only thing that would make it better is if Andy were close enough to have helped him! We sure miss you guys!
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AnnikaJuly 2, 2018 at 7:24 PM
I saw your bike rack on Pinterest, and I'm intrigued! Can you share any more pictures or dimensions? I love the design.
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Parkinson funnies

Nov 2012- Aaron was watching football on TV and Jared came out saying, "I want to go watch grass!"

Dec 2011- Heidi said one morning, "Mom, there's frosting on the house!" (on a cold day when frost was on the house).

June 2, 2011- Driving in the car Kyle said to his sister, "If you don't learn to talk, Jesus will make you talk Spanish." (He explained later that he actually meant sign language. That's how he thought it worked.)

Feb 28, 2011- Kyle said, "I don't like to have babysitters because they are only supposed to take care of babies!" Then we explained that they can take care of bigger kids too.

Dec 15, 2010- Kyle said, "I know how they make egg nog. First they dump in the eggs and mix them around. Then they put in the nog..."

Oct 20, 2010- Kyle said, "Mom, is some cheese blue?" I said it is called blue cheese but isn't really that blue. He said, "Well, then does it taste like blueberries?" I love all the questions he asks about how the world works- He's really trying to figure things out.

Oct 7, 2010- We were driving by Arctic Circle and Kyle said, "Is that the hamburger hut? I like that hut." I am wondering if he was remembering a time when we went to "Pizza Hut".

Aug 12, 2010- We were driving by a farm where there was a big fire burning up the field and Kyle said, "Dad, is that where the indians live?"

Aug 8, 2010- We were driving in the car and Kyle said, "Dad, I think I 'm truck-sick." "You mean car sick?" "No, truck sick- when you're sick in the truck."

Aug 2, 2010- We were headed off to a doctor's appointment for the baby and he was crying. Kyle said, "Mom, I think he's crying because you said he is going to get a shot."

June 28, 2010- The other day at dinner it was Heidi's turn to pray and daddy was helping her. She was just repeating everything word for word when he got to "Please bless it.." and said it 3 times. Finally I had to open my eyes to see what the hold up was. Well, little Heidi was just stuffing spaghetti in her mouth as fast as she could and it was hanging out all over. We all just bust up laughing. I guess she just couldn't wait any longer!

May 19, 2010- On the way home from the hospital after seeing their new baby brother, Erika said, "When I was born mom and dad said that I looked blue." Kyle said, "And when I was born I was pink and red. "

Dec 9,2009- The other day we were eating dinner and Kyle didn't want to eat. He said, "I don't like to eat aliens!" We told him there were no aliens in his dinner. Then, realizing what he was talking about, I said, "You mean onions?" He kept calling onions "aliens" and we got a kick out of it.

Nov 20, 2009- Erika lost another tooth at school today. Kyle said to her, "Erika, when my tooth gets loose and comes out, I'll give mine to you."

Oct 10, 2009- Today Erika said, "Mom, someday when I'm older, I want to get that recipe from you!"

Sept 9, 2009- We couldn't find our puppy anywhere and had driven all over the neighborhood to find him. Finally about 2 hours later Kyle showed up holding him and I said, "Where did you find him?" He said, "In the killer-box". "The what?" "The cooler-box". He had stuck him in a cooler in our backyard and forgotten about it. We were glad he was okay!! I felt terrible and gave him some extra TLC for a little while.

Sept 4, 2009- Erika said tonight, "You know what my favorite thing is about school? It's lunch... and learning... and break!" We said, "Isn't that the whole thing?"

Aug 17,2009- We were camping and had brought all our bikes. As we were leaving camp for a little while, Aaron commented that it might have been wise to bring a chain to lock up our bikes so they wouldn't get stolen. Erika said, "Or, we could have just brought a sign that said, 'DON'T STEAL!'".

July 12, 2009- Today at church Kyle looked at my Young Women's Medallion and said, "Mom, is that you on the necklace?"

July 3, 2009- Kyle had been sleeping down in Erika's room with some friends and came upstairs before we went to bed. He said, "Mom, there was some noise down there. I think it was the tooth fairy, coming to get the loose tooth."