Stuff thats been happening

Josh got a suit for his birthday. He was so excited to be MEN IN BLACK!

Patrick graduated from Preschool and Josh from 2nd grade.

 Caleb fell asleep just like this.

 We finally planted plants in my front yard. With thanks to Grandma and Patrick or from yard looks fabulous. Seem to have lost the after picture. Will post later. Patrick was offered to go play at his friends but he didn't want to go like he normally would. He wanted to stay and spend time with Grandma.

 Yesterday I went to Allie's at 9am and left at 415pm. We went all hard core on her garden. It looks great. Man I can't imagine how long that would have taken just one person. The kids liked climbing on the 10 bags of mulch we had to get.

 I spent 5 hours the day before Josh's baptism. I seperated out all the food into containers and made the frog eye salad and whatever else for his luncheon. It was a lot of work. But I really liked that it was all ready to go right after the baptism.

 I made 30 yearbooks for Josh's second grade class. It took a couple days to design. Then I thought it would be easy to put together, I was wrong. I started putting them together after I painted my front and back door, gardened the front with Grandma, put the glossy coat on the deck. So around 10pm. What I thought would be an hour ended up being til 2am. Glad the turned out so well though.

 I messed up a rib and have had a good amount of pain the last 2 weeks. The last couple days I have been able to take it easy-ish. So it hasn't been hurting as much. I have taken a couple trips to the chiropractor for help. My children were the entertainment for the quiet office.

 I had had enough. The deck was splintery and not cute. So I read what to do and I sanded it and stained it and glossed it.

 Trevor didn't want to dark of a color. I think I did great on the color department. It's so much better.

 This is what my yard was before. Calebs favorite pile of dirt.

 We experienced the amazing Solar Eclipse.

 Josh and Patrick both had well child visits. I learned Josh has flat feet and that's why he walks unusual. Patrick has 20/40 eye sight. And Caleb just got naked because his brother were.

 I found a couple pictures from the picnic when Nate was in town. Looks like Mandee and Trevor are making the same face.

 Caleb is so cute. I had to share this photo! You should hear him talk.

 I took 9 bins of toys and cleaned them and trough away some. I am the nursery coordinator and Hand, Foot, and mouth disease was going around the other wards nursery. Since we share those rooms I thought I should clean the toys. I got it down to 6 bins, 2 per nursery. The first hour I worked alone. then I had help for the other 3 hours. I went over once a week to the building for 4 weeks and wiped down the nursery rooms just to be extra cautious. I think it worked:)

I have been promising Josh that after his baptism I would play Minecraft with him, his favorite game. You mine and build stuff. So this past Monday I sat down and played his favorite game with him. Admittedly I was a bit bored. But I think it is a great game for him and was glad he shared it with me. I ended up building Lily Pads on water that wrote "Mom loves Josh". He ate that up and wrote we a sign. This went on for awhile.

I don't know if I ever posted this picture. This is from when Allie went to Texas with Nate for 5 days. I watched her kiddies. Which obviously equals dress up. Caleb saw all the fun Ashlee was having and wanted to get dolled up to. So the three of us did Manicures and Pedicures.

That's it for now my friends. I gotta go to bed, it's almost midnight. It was so great seeing Matt the other night. We really miss you guys and hope the wind takes you this direction. Miss Natalie when are you coming to visit, I hope there is a plan in the works.

Oh and while all this was going on Trevor just WORKED AND WORKED AND WORKED!!! Early morning to late at night. 60 hours just last week. As of yesterday it looks like for awhile it has calmed. But I think I have forever scars. Caused by the last 2 months of none stop work.