Yard Update Sept 10, 2012

It's been a couple (or 8) years since I've been going to school, I don't dread Fall anymore and I actually quite enjoy it (although Halloween tends to muck up an otherwise enjoyable time of year). The one thing I don't love still, is the fact that I start waking up in the morning and it's still dark outside and this year I now have to get Aidan up and on the bus. Many years ago I was considering getting an alarm clock that has a wake up light, and now I'm revisiting that idea as I feel it would really be beneficial for me. Ha. Atleast beneficial in maybe me not hating waking up so much.

 

My only hang ups are: a) the price (ouch!), and b) Cary said he would smash it to little bits if I put this in our room. Hmmm... I'll let you know where this goes.

Now about our yard. So close, so close! We're still buying and laying down brick, but we'll hopefully be planting lawn here in the next week. It was supposed to be this week, but you know how it goes. =P Hopefully we can get it done before Cary starts more farming, but really I'm excited about planting the FUN stuff like flowers, bushes, ground cover, etc... although, a lot of that may have to wait. ☺

 We need a few more bikes, toys, and "stuff" in our front yard, eh?

Next up:
I've been meaning to do some belly shots with this pregnancy, but after taking them, I see why I was so resistant. It seems I'm growing a baby in my bum and not my belly! Ay yi yi. =P

Snake Valley Days

 Last Saturday, I caught this during church.

 Later that afternoon we headed over for Snake Valley Days BBQ (a fundraiser for the Snake Valley Fire Dept.) I wasn't able to pull my camera out until after the food was gone, everyone was done eating and mostly gone. (We had a scrumptious meal of beef brisket, baked potato, baked beans, salad, rolls, corn on the cob, watermelon, and homemade slushy root beer.)

 Janille trying to corral Britton from climbing up tables.

 Strangely enough, none of the kids got hurt running up and down that board. It was later on when Britton tripped and smacked his head full force into one of the concrete steps that he got hurt. =P

 Tom was making/ mixing the rootbeer and Ella became his best friend for the rest of the night.

I don't even know what this group of people signifies, I was just instructed to take a photo. ☺

Ugh!

 Grandma and Grandpa Hanks and my mom have been supplying me with cucumbers, so I've made around 30 jars of pickles. I've tried two different recipies, so I'll have to see which one I end up liking better. The first batch I made I tried a recipe from Pinterest, and the second batch I made a family recipe that my Grandma Hanks used to make.
Now I need to get picking all the pears we have on our trees and so something with those. =P

 Aidan is loving kindergarten, Ella is loving preschool, and Britton wishes he could stay at preschool. :) I let him stay a play for a few minutes every day, but he's still kind of like a bulldozer.

 The strangest stomach bug is going around, and Ella has been fighting with it for a week now. She started throwing up last weekend, but at the time we weren't sure if it was something she ate or if she picked something up since at that time no one else had been sick. Well, Britton ended up getting it (and still has it) and I've not been myself, but this stuff has been hanging on for FOREVER.

 Our neighbors, Brad and Cheryl moved today. They are moving on to bigger and better things for themselves and we wish them well in their new endeavors.

 We had a freak rainstorm last week that dropped a lot rain in a very short amount of time, and the kids loved playing in all the puddles of the aftermath. The unfortunate (or fortunate?) is that all that water exposed a leak in our roof, and we had water running down through the light in our back entryway. Thankfully, Cary is a handy guy and fixed it. :)

 Cary has really been getting a lot of work done in our yard and I'll have to post some updated pictures soon. We're hoping to get the lawn planted soon. We do have a pesky gopher that is making our life difficult and has been hard to get rid of.

 Cary and Kiah are lawn and sprinkler experts now, so here they are fixing a sprinkler in grandpa's yard. ;)

 Britton is helping.

 By running off with the tools.

 The nights are definitely starting to cool down and it feels a little bit more like Fall until it hits 90 degrees during the afternoon...☺

Ella's first day of school

 Ella went back to preschool yesterday and she was pretty excited about it. (I was pretty excited too!) ☺

I forgot to do this interview with Ella for her 3rd birthday, so we went ahead and did it now. Unfortunately, I caught her at a time when the color pink was on her mind. ☺

1. What is your favorite color? Pink and Purple

 2. What is your favorite toy? A pink, purple, and yellow toy

3. What is your favorite fruit? A pink fruit

4. What is your favorite tv show?  Pink Wiggles

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Pizza

6. What is your favorite outfit? Pretty white dress

7. What is your favorite game? Pink games and the marching game

 8. What is your favorite snack? Swedish Fish 

9. What is your favorite animal? Pink Animal

10. What is your favorite song? B-I-B-L-E

11. What is your favorite book? Disney Princess book

12. Who is your best friend? Aidan (and Kayli, Megan, Rosaleen, Alex, etc..she has a lot of besties.) 

13. What is your favorite cereal? Honey Cheerios

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Pick purple flowers

 15. What is your favorite drink? Water in a pink cup

 16. What is your favorite holiday? Her Birthday!

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Purple water bottle, princess book, and her nightlight.

 18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Cereal (usually oats) and chocolate milk

  19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Cake

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Princess

End of Summer Concert

Another great concert! I loved the songs this night, but I was dead exhausted so it's amazing I took any photos. As per usual lately, at the end it started raining and they had to cut out some songs since they involved an orchestra and they didn't want the instruments out getting wet. They played them the next night at church though, so all was not lost. ;)