Weeds

I know I shouldn't complain about my yard, it has good bones.  I have a beautiful home, but the yard leaves very little to the imagination.  Last Saturday, our friend Spence came over and helped Curtis take out the dead grass with a sod cutter.  The dead grass that was left was a great lattice system for the weeds to grow in.

The weeds don't really look too big in this picture.  They were tame here!

Curtis and the boys tried to pull up the grass without cutting it off, this is where they left off.

After a few hours, we called Dad and Kim and Jill to come and help, I still can't lift very much yet, do I felt like very little help.

After cutting, then they rolled it up and carried it in the wheel barrel to the driveway!

It does look much better, even bare!!

Next step, sod or something

I'll keep you posted

Laundry Fun

Deidre and Enoch, 2 kids in a dryer

Deidre and Enoch were trying to take advantage of the fact that I couldn't lift either one of them out of the dryer.

Can you believe they can both fit in there?  I guess it really is a super capacity.  

They were having so much fun, I hated to make them get out, that shows you I am getting more lax in my old age.  I would have never let the boys do that.  I would have said no,  just cause.

Sometimes I feel like the laundry never ends, like I am in a hamster wheel of laundry and chores.  It is a good break to grab the camera and laugh with them too.  Lindsay and Sheri both posted the words to their laundry song, I have found myself singing it too.

Braces

Can you believe that Bailey is 10?  One last naked tooth picture...

Did my parents actually pay someone to put this ancient torture device in my mouth?

They don't really hurt!!?

Brace face, that's what my dad used to call me...

Bailey is going to have to learn how to eat right after he gets his braces adjusted, he came home from school today and announced that he really didn't eat lunch because everything was too hard.  I remember that pain  all to well.  

Deidre goes to Hollywood

Deidre had her Kindergarten program on Thursday night.  They did the "Jungle Book".  Deidre was one of the storytellers.  She did really well and spoke loud so everyone could understand her.  I was really proud.

Luckily I went with mom to the afternoon program.  She had a meeting during the evening performance, and I wanted to see both,  so off we went.  

Then, right before the evening performance, Enoch feel asleep and so I thought I could get away with putting him in the stroller and he would stay asleep (this usually works great).  But, when I lifted him out of the car seat, he woke up.  He screamed for the whole half hour before the performance.  I took him into the hall, and got lots of looks from everyone coming in.  What a great feeling to be stared down by everyone who is on their way to a program.

It got so bad, there was just no calming him down, that as soon as Curtis got there, I left and missed the whole show.  Boy was I glad that I had gone in the afternoon!  

My short term goal is for our whole family to be able to go anywhere together, even church, and sit still and listen, not fighting someone to be quiet.  Don't you think that is reasonable?