Labor of Love

Today is the hubby's birthday! Upon his wishes he wanted to do something very relaxing. Being that my birthday was last weekend and non-stop and next weekend we are traveling to Canada for Steve's sister, Shawna's wedding, I agreed that something chill and relaxing would be a great idea. Little did I know that what I had planned would be anything but, (for me at least). This morning I gave Steve a gift certificate to this amazing driving range, mini-golf, batting gage park by our house. Sending him golfing was a nice gesture but what I really wanted to do was get him out of the house for awhile. Why you ask? Well the reason is because I had bought Steve a grill for his birthday and was hiding it in my car for the past two days. I needed to assemble this puppy while he was gone so that when he came home I could sup rise him with it. When I bought the grill at Lowes, my salesman Roger (yes we are on a first name basis) told me that he used to have this grill and it was super easy to put together. I figured if Roger could do it then why couldn't I? He said it took him about 45 minutes to put together and that was with multiple beer breaks throughout the process. He said he would screw 1 thing together then sit down and take a sip of beer, then screw something else together, then sit down and take another sip of beer. You get the idea. So here I go, set out to assemble my first grill. I decided to forgo the beer drinking because A) it was 9am and B) I needed the time advantage to assemble this little baby faster. I guess I should back up and tell you that once Roger loaded the grill into my car it was any ones guess on how I was going to get it out. The answer? Not easy! I mean I almost broke my back, or the grill, or my car trying to get it out. I think all three. The grill was so heavy! Once I pain stakingly dragged it up the driveway into the garage I started to empty all the parts out. 3,090 separate parts later I started to freak out! Ok, so maybe there was only about 25 parts, but I swear it felt like 3,090 parts! 2 1/2 hours later, dripping with sweat, exhausting every curse word I know, I finally finished putting this puppy together. What a lobar of love. Of course I had to photo journal the process....











out of the box


already confused

tired

frustrated

done!

time to grill!

success!