Just spending some time with the kids

I went on a date last night with Brad and Jake.  Of course, they are at an age where they would not say it was a "date", especially since it is with their dad.  But, Nichole was out Christmas shopping with Ava and Eli which left me at home with Brad and Jake.  Ethan had to go to work at Papa Murphy's.  Well, Jake is someone who is always thinking of something else he can be doing.  A couple weeks ago, he wanted to do dance classes with Ava.  Now, he wants to build a club house.  Granted, he has been wanting to do that for a while.  He has seen his daddy remodeling the house and now thinks it is his turn to have us do what he wants.  So, we went to the Home Depot to price things out to build a clubhouse.  I was trying to show them how much something like this would cost.  Well, of course, the only thing they could think of was that we needed to start that night building it.  I may have put my foot in my mouth, but I convinced them it would be better to build a whole apartment into our third care garage since it is only used for storing bikes as opposed to building another exterior structure.  We measured the garage up and drew up our plans for an amazing clubhouse/apartment.  So, I guess it is now time to get started on the next phase of remodeling.  I hope this next week or two I will be able to finish up with the kitchen, the stairs area and do a little upstairs. Then, I can start with the kiddos and build our clubhouse.  I'm actually kind of excited to do this project.  It'll be a fun one