Christmas came early to this Williams’ family.  The main reason was that I wanted Ryan to get to use his main christmas present before christmas AND I wanted to give him all his gifts (since they all went with the main gift) at once.  So ryan set my big gift up for the same day and on Saturday we had our mini-christmas.

We started out the morning with presents on Saturday, first Fitzy got http://groudasfamily.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php?post=2270&action=edit&message=6some gifts:

New toys for Fitzy-boy

While he played (he also got a new bed a couple of days ago) with his new toys and bone Ryan opened his main gift piece by piece:

New router table with accessories

I don’t have a picture of my main gift because you can’t really see it – my car got a remote starter!  And I can start it from either a fob, or from my cell phone with an app (from anywhere), I can also track my car with GPS from the same app.  (In case it gets stolen?).  Very cool!  I also got a Kindle Touch which I was up late Saturday night playing with (it has games unlike my second generation kindle which will go to Ryan now).  I love how small it is and perfect for traveling next week with.

After presents (which included taking my car over to get the starter installed, and a trip to 5-guys!), we started working on the drawers for the built-ins.  This was pretty intimidating, we bought the drawer slides and hardware a while ago (10 drawers total) but weren’t quite sure how to do the drawers to fit perfectly.  We started by putting in some blocks for the slides, so the drawers could open even if the doors aren’t open ALL the way (on one side the door can’t open all the way).

Then we slowly planned it all out, starting with the left cabinet because it was very square and all 3 drawers would be the same sizes.  We built one drawer and got it installed and working!

The first drawer installed! With slow close!

On Sunday we were able to get the other 2 drawers done pretty quickly now that we knew what we were doing (it took a while to figure out the drilling template the first time).  So we have one cabinet filled with drawers!  3 down, 7 to go!

Slides all installed

Drawers have locking mechanisms on the bottom, and cutouts for the slides

Drawers installed

Undermounted slides so you don't see it on the sides at all.

All the drawers need are face frames, we haven’t decided how we want those to look (Ryan will probably route them to make them look a little fancy.).  The drawers will fit our dvds hidden in the cabinets, at least the right and left most ones will be dvds.

Now it’s time to relax with Fitzy boy before driving him down to stay with Buddy boy for the week.