I don't know when I got out of the habit of blogging a little along the way, but boy-lately I get to Friday and I don't have anything and don't think I can remember much. Grampa and Isaac worked their tails off at the house last Saturday. I took Cannon to baseball practice but that is honestly the ONLY thing I can remember. Sunday was highlighted by a little fake birthday party for Cannon. The way it has been working out we have been in Utah pretty close to Colts birthday multiple times so we typically find ourselves celebrating early. Well...since Grama AND Grampa were had to follow suit. Cannon ate it up. Tanner has been so cute singing Happy Birthday Cannon ever since. Hopefully I'll get a video next week. Colt helped pick out Cannon's presents and cashed in on some "farm boots" of his own.
It was a fake birthday anyway so candles for everyone? You bet. How bout Cannon cutting pieces of cake right out of the middle of it...Oh well. Oh and the little stinkers were calling my pitchers mound and emoji poo. Cannon shouted "Who wants the emoji poo piece?" It was a MOUND man come on! I guess a mound of poo in little boy eyes-they thought they were pretty funny. And of course Cannon cashed in on some birthday spank'ns...
Grampa is the hardest worker I know! He worked the whole time he was here but these boys didn't let him off the hook with playing tickle monster. Sunday was a good day of "rest" for that, right?
Monday we had to give grampa back, bummer. But if we can make any progress on this dang house he'll come back. YAY.
And this week we had crazy hair. This day Colt wouldn't play duck duck goose at school because he didn't want to mess his up. HAHA. But he came home and washed it our immediately. Silly kid. And he's decided sidewalk chalk is most fun to hammer in to pictures. .
And we've finally had some good weather! So we busted out those Easter kites. (So now they've at least got to fly them--once--but I can chuck them now, right?...lost in the move?? I'm terrible. But they just feel like, stuff, stuff that gets piled in the garage and makes messes.)
A few last snuggles with Grama before she headed out. :( We just wish it were closer. But we know we're very blessed with technology and video calling and that they come as much as they do, living so far away stinks but we sure have a lot to be thankful for!
After Grama hit the road Thursday I started working on some family reunion shirts for our friends (the are SO cute and fun...picture pending-maybe) such a good outlet for me to work on something I feel like I have control over. Tanner was playing quietly in his room...NOPE found Cannon's gum. Little stinker. He is a genuine little pissant (that's what they use to call me too) We were out at the house and he was playing around "driving" the van but then he opened and licked once, or twice, or ate who knows how many whole ones of the dum dums I had stashed in there AND found and opened a big bag of skittles I didn't know I had it there. The big boys ratted him out or he would have eaten the whole thing. (Once found I did remember the skittles, HE, just put them in the cart one time at HyVee but it was so dang cute and they were on sale so I went for it...) Payback are gett'n me. Crazy kid. He begs to go the the "farm" constantly. He helped Isaac pull out some nails, then found his own board to put them back in. And he's getting pretty good on that little balance bike too!
They boys had left the pool (nasty green swamp really) alone so I hadn't really worried about it, but unbeknownst to me Isaac had them over there trying to create a siphon to drain it one night when I wasn't there. It didn't work-that time. But the next day I caught Tanner 2 rungs up the ladder and kinda freaked out. I told Isaac him getting that drained was my top priority, well all he needed was a better hose so they got it going the next day. Then the boys had a BLAST making "Stew" ... so gross! Whatever, its little boy heaven right? Those are make shift balance beams in the kitchen on the next picture down.
And remember last week I posted a picture of them laying in the grass. Ug. Nothing last week but this week we were 3 for 3 finding ticks on them. AHHHH I'm freaking out. Isaac was hopeful it was still too cold for them but it took all of 1 nice day for them to be out in full force. SO DANG NASTY-and scary too because the little sucker can spread disease. UG, it gives me the heebie jeebies!
Tonight we had a little family project in the boys future room. I tried to just "enjoy" it because it was kinda fun (minus the fights) to all be in there working together, and heck-we got a lot more of it ahead of us. Our hope to get this one done before the carpet guy leaves town for 3 weeks, and then the once next to it and then we'd have a couple places we could move all our our stuff if we end up camping at our friends house. YIKES.
And after the ticks, it was hair cuts tonight! Cannon has just been into combing his hair in the mornings and didn't want his cut but we were like "sorry, no way, you have to have short hair, really short hair so we can see if there's a tick in it." (UG, so gross, I'm going to have to toughen up, but I'm not tough yet!) Anyway, his reward for cooperating and getting his hair cut was he got to help cut dads. HA!
Well I'm sure I'm missing a hundred stories but that's about it for now!
