Staining the deck

The owners before us PAINTED the deck - probably for a 'quick' sale, eh?

So, we finally got around to pressure washing, then sanding it:

And we stained it - ahhhhh, so much nicer:

I asked the boys to pressure wash some of it and Brady (proudly) spelled his name out with the pressure washer. Yeah, it's still visible, even after we sanded and stained it - I couldn't get it to show up in a photo, but it's just funny how parents just can't think of everything to tell their kids NOT to do while doing a task. I guess it's good to look at the positive because I only thought to cover how to avoid the dangerous scenarios! And we didn't have any of those - hehe