Sunday, July 17, 2011

Yard Project

Since we bought a house with no yard we have been spending the last 4 months putting it in. It has been quite a project. All I have to say is that I will never buy a house that doesn't have a yard and sprinkler system in it again. It is so much work! I thought we could put it in in about 2 weeks but their is always something that needs to be done. We still don't have a fence or the flower beds in yet. Oh well, this fall or next spring. We are just happy with the grass.
The front yard with top soil on it.
The back yard with the kids playing the top soil.
Of course the day that we rented the machine to spread all the soil it snowed. We only had it for 24 hours so we spread it anyway in the snow!
Ryan looked like a little boy playing with his tractors in the dirt!
Here is the little green fuzz starting to grow. We had so much rain that we ended up with a canyon down our yard. But at least it was kept really wet even if some of it did wash away.
Finally the finished product! It still needs to get thicker and fill in, but we have grass. I don't know if it was worth giving up going to Hawaii but I sure am glad that we have grass to play on.
Grass in the back yard with our rabbit hutch, chicken coop, and our garden. We dug holes to put our vine plants in thanks to the help of Jill, Dan and my parents. IT was a huge debate on how much grass we should plant in the back yard because Ryan wanted a huge garden. But we finally compromised and we both got what we wanted.

1st Perm

People are always asking Lindee where she got her red hair at and how pretty her curly hair is. I think Jenna feels a little jealous. So when my parents came to stay with us over Memorial weekend Jenna asked my mom if she would perm it. It turned out pretty curly but didn't last for long but she loved it. She has my hair that doesn't perm very well. I think we will try again and get a Sally perm instead of one from Walmart.
All rolled!
Her curly hair made her look more grown up to me. She really liked it!

JT's 6th

We have 3 birthday's 6 days apart and JT is last. He turned 6 this year. He went to kindergarten last year and made a lot of good friends. We usually let the kids have a birthday part when they turn 5 but JT wasn't in school yet and didn't know very many kids so we let him have a party this year. He chose a Star Wars party and invited 6 little boys. They made a charm necklace (because every Jedi should have a good luck charm) and then they went through training to earn their light saber (a balloon sword) at the end. Then they had a sword fight. It was a lot of fun. JT is the clown in our family and is always doing goofy things to get people to notice him. He likes to play outside, play on the gaming systems, and play with his siblings. He has a bit of a temper but when he smiles at you he melts your heart. We are so glad that he is in our family. We love you John Terry!
JT also wanted a pillow pet. He got a penguin.

JT's star wars cake
JT wanted a pinata at his party so we made one. Here JT and Lindee are painting it before I covered it with tissue paper and glued Darth Vader on it.

We ate pizza at his party

JT hitting the pinata.

Here is some of their training--Learning how to get out of tight spots by playing twister!

The sword fight at the end of the party

Lindee's 3rd

I can't believe that my baby is already 3. She is getting so big and has her own personality. She loves the color pink, Dora the Explorer, and princesses and she likes to wear dresses. She loves going to nursery and asks at least 3 times during sacrament meeting when it is time for nursery. She has a cute little dimple in her left cheek when she smiles just right. We used to tell her that she had crazy fire hair but we had to stop that when she would tell people that! She does not like having her hair brushed unless she has just gotten out of the bath so it isn't so tangled. Our family wouldn't be complete without our little Lindee Lou Who!
Her princess cake
She has been wanting a pillow pet so we got her an elephant which she sleeps with every night!

Easter 2011

For Easter we went to an Easter Egg pick up (I call it a pick up because you just pick up the eggs off the ground in the designated roped areas. But we had a lot of fun decorating eggs and having the Easter bunny come to our house!


The kids coloring their eggs

Crazy Easter Morning Kids!