Easter and such

The only 2 pics I had on my phone from Easter Sunday are the ones Ray sent me. The weather in the morning was nice so we headed out on a walk and stopped s d visited with the Jaggers. They’re awesome we have great neighbors!! We talked family history just a bit too-it was fun. 

In an effort to keep the Sabbath day holy our Easter bunny comes on Saturday...oh man! These little stinkers where up from 1-5AM. I'm not really sure when Cannon slept at all! (I do love that he get so excited about things though.) He participated in the world wide fast with us on Friday though-and a 24 hour fast for an 8 year old is a big deal, so we taught him the finer tricks of fasting like-just have a nap. Well, he this time he took us up on it. So he'd napped for 2+ hours on Friday. When he FINALLY went to sleep. Actually they wanted to all sleep out in the living room, I said "fine" (MISTAKE) Anyway he was so amped up and not tire at all so I don't know when he fell asleep but we laid in on the other boys bedroom and read for a while. Then I fell asleep. When I woke up to move to my own bed he was asleep with the other boys in the living room. Well-I kept telling them the bunny might be in quarantine-but he came! He brought the big boys helicopters and Sethy a little tractor set. No eggs this year but lots of bubble gum and a few kit kats.

The helicopters can "dog fight" so Colt and Cann set up there fight then they give Tan the "Commander job" and he sits on the couch and barks out orders "Right-Left-Foward, now back" its quite hilarious! And that darn Easter bunny thought Ann and Elsie were going to be here too so he even left mom and dad a helicopter! 5 of those dang things! We haven't had an all out dog fight yet. I really haven't even every tried to fly one. In fact mom and dad's are just like spares for the boys because of course they break-cheap-or need to charge or whatever. I do hope Ann and Elsie get them eventually. But whatever.
Bro Speaks needed a little dirt since we still have Grampa's tractor we could help him out. It was fun to get out of the house and visit with Connie for a minute too.

The farmhouse blog is lacking so here it stays. And this right here is the single best thing we've done with that tractor. I love that Isaac is looking at his phone in this pic too. Classic.  But one of the times I nagged Isaac about fixing the porch he told me "its built on an angle like that on purpose so it can drain"
Ummm kinda like the liquid nail made it so he couldn't take the baseboard off until one day when he wanted to take a piece off and took him about 2 seconds to pull it off...yeah it was a load of  _______ you know what. But whatever I was so happy to have it lifted up.

The question is whether it was a 3 week fix...or a 3 year fix (we've already passed the 3 hour and 3 days) I asked him-and mentioned all 4 possibilities- when we did it but he didn't answer. I think he's looking up pillars at Menards on his phone...its gotta be that) but we just ended up shoving some old 4x4's under that old rotted pillar. Whatever, its not sagging as bad, I have to celebrate small successes around here. Our friends that moved to Texas just bought a fixer upper, when she was telling me about it she said "Nothing like the farmhouse..." I literally just busted up laughing as I watched the video chat. Yeah. We're in a league of our own.  Look back up at that picture with a the tractor--that's our closet door on the front porch. I hauled it up out of the basement. We didn't paint it anymore, although it could use it, but he hung it tonight. It might be the right door, it might not be, it kind of fits, but we've lived here almost 2 years and I have a closet door! I'm kind of excited. You can't see that behind the bucket of the tractor that the siding is still unfinished. The last time he worked on that was my birthday. Maybe I already wrote about this but here I go again. He wanted to put in a turn around spot while we've got my dad's tractor "So someone could actually use our front door." I was was like what?WHY? No way! The sidings not done, we don't even have front steps--they're cider blocks-and they porch is a disaster.
Well I lost that one-he started making the turn around anyway...its partially done...shocker. I feel like little rants like this are why I made the farmhouse blog. Whoops. This one made it on here. Oh well. I did start out with how happy I was we'd raised the porch-and I am. Maybe I'll cross my fingers on the steps and siding.
He did finish the side of the house project this week, it looks a lot better and he threw down some grass seed.

Monday I just snapped a few pics of one of brawls...they always start out all in good fun...they NEVER end all in good fun.


And this little Seth-a-roo...I think he's pretty alright! Even if he is my little arm monkey. He's been reminding me the most of Cannon lately-I don't know, maybe its just that he stand by the bathroom door and cries the whole time if I try to jump in the shower. There's other things too, how he east so much of that nasty baby oatmeal, I'm happy about it its good for him, but I don't remember Colt and Tan eating it as much. He's fun.
Part of the "turn around" project involves moving the front hill...but we like having a hill so he moved some of it. Maybe all of it eventually, we'll see.



Of course the boys built a fort! It has a seat for each of'm behind the wall-even Seth.
Then yesterday we woke up to snow! (So much for my garden. Darn. Oh well, I'd jump the gun on that again to have the boys outside and helping and thinking we were being productive.) But we figured it was the last snow so we skipped "school" and played hard.
Snow angels, snowball fights, a snow man (no pic), rode their bikes in it, snow cones...you name it.









It was fun. They finally came in -soaked- Sethy and I had to give up early. Yesterday it was his feet, we took care of that with plastic bag today but then those darn mittens betrayed him. Darn.
Round 2 on snow cones, play dough, having the missionaries over virtually and looking for patterns around the house for Colts art teacher.

Even though they snow melted yesterday afternoon we woke up this morning to more!!! So we opted for a snow fort. It was a fun little "project" I love being out there and playing with them. Sometimes its hard because there is so much that still needs to be done whether its laundry or dishes or Seth was just to cold or tired or whatever but it is time well spent when we all play together!







I kind of made it into the selfie.

Tonight Isaac and I worked on his paper a little bit...and last night too. Ug. I think we'll both be happy when its done.
So its super late. But life is good!