Damage

Did I mention that we have another baby in our family?  About a week before I was going to give birth, Matt was bringing his very own special baby into the world:  The Shed.  Matt has always wanted a shed in the backyard and we designed the yard to fit one eventually.  I will post the whole riveting shed story another day when the shed is finished.

This is a story about the carnage caused by said shed.  (say that ten times really fast!)  Matt had purchased all the materials, including the door and windows and it was all stored in our garage.  Matt had been keeping his truck in the driveway to make room for all the supplies.

About five weeks ago, Matt was gathering some supplies in the garage for the big shed building day.  I was in the house with the kids.  It was later in the evening, I think it was dark.  The shed door was leaning against the side wall of the garage.  The door was a big, double metal door and I had been keeping the kids away from it since Matt had picked it up.  I was worried it would fall on one of them and break some bones.  It had been a windy day and as I was going about my business in the house, I heard a huge thunk.  I went out to the garage to see what it was.  As Matt had opened the garage door, a gust of wind had blown in (a huge gust of wind, we live in Lehi, after all I think that was the day of the 55mph wind gusts) and blown the shed door over.  IT BLEW RIGHT INTO MY VAN.  First of all, Matt was lucky the door didn't land on him.  We were lucky none of the kids were in the garage.  We are very lucky that the only damage was to the van and not any living creature.

When I walked out to the garage, I see Matt standing there in disbelief, and the shed door lying on it's side.  Luckily, there was a fire barrel in front of the door, which slightly cushioned the fall, saving the door from major damage.  Luckily, the door didn't hit one of the van windows, or tail lights or do any damage that absolutely needs to be replaced.  It didn't even scratch the paint.  But the door did leave a good sized dent.  Matt didn't think it was that noticeable, but the next day, my brother in law came over and seeing my van in the driveway, said, "What happened to your van?"  Bummer.  The shed, Scout Camp and a new baby have made for a crazy few weeks.  I asked Matt if next year we could try and not buildashedhaveababyMattgotoscoutcamp all the same week.