Sunday, April 13, 2008

Renewed life for a sandbox- or filling the sandbox

Here's the kids, with the rest of the sand that is destined for the sandbox in our backyard. It only took 7 minuttes and 45 seconds to fill. We know that because Sam was given charge of the camera, and he took a MOVIE of the WHOLE ordeal ... so with enough requests.. we will publish that movie. (Please, if you want to see someone get a workout, go to the local gym)

This is a picture of the scale where we loaded the sand at. We need a picture to show how much our car weight without the sand. But I think we got our money's worth.

Katie with a bucket helping unloading the sand from the car. This is at 5 loads into the small tub we used to transport the sand to the sandbox from the car. They were about half of the amount of sand as I used the first time getting sand.

You can't see it here, as the kids jumped into the box right after the first tub was emptied into the box. And this is when only 5 tubs was emptied in.

10 small tubs removed. I used 10 shovel scoops to fill a tub. Not the biggest scoops, just about half scoops. Sand is very heavy after a while.

Here is the Big tub, the sandbox and the small tub used for the filling of the sandbox. 15 small (about half full, as you know, sand is very heavy).

But what is a sandbox without kids.... as you can see they stormed to it after the one picture was taken. And it has been hard getting them out of there since.
And they left the mess in the car for dad. Well, he is the one that got it in there.

4 comments:

Rachel said...

Your sandbox looks SO fun!! We used to have one when I was a kid... then my brother started burying things in it. Like his hamster (after it died) and pretty much anything he felt need a burial... He was weird.

LeaAnne said...

Think will only take about 5 days for about 13 tubs of sand to be brought in the house and tracked through the carpet! Yay for us:)

Anonymous said...

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Marianne!

Lisa said...

What a good dad! So, where do you get your sand? We just bring a container back from the beach and then sift all the wood and stuff out. Is there an easier way?