This Week...
...we had more K'nex creations. We don't even have instructions for a lot of the things they're making. They just look at the picture at the back of the catalog and figure it out based on the color of the pieces.
...Emma played a trick on Paul. And he was a very good sport about it. It was the whole get-a-little-closer trick with Paul and his pancake. That's when Emma made her move. She pushed his face into the whip cream. Paul tried the same trick on Lainey, but she didn't take it so well. Oops! She's just a little too young to be able to handle that one.
...my blog book came this week. Kent and Julie had us for Christmas. They put money towards my blog book for the year 2010. This was my first year doing a photo a day. The book was huge and so was the bill. Note to self: Cut out the Table of Contents pages. No one looks at them anyway.
...they're getting ready to paint the trim. This means we're getting close people! They tape everything off and then come through and spray all the mill work. What a process!
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...we celebrated Paul's birthday. The big 1-0! He was super excited for his birthday and presents. I'm just glad he's ok with my homemade attempts at his skylanders birthday cake ideas.
After the presents and cake and ice cream, we played a game of dump the balloons over the edge of the landing. It was great fun the first time, but it quickly got old. They were good about collecting them once they were dropped, but it was when they tired of cleaning them up that the game got old real fast.
Paul got some K'nex for his birthday. A new set meant new opportunities to build. I couldn't get them to stop and go to bed.
We had family over to celebrate Paul. It was great to be able to sit around the table and visit.
...carpet went in on the weekend. It wasn't supposed to be done until next week, but they came early and got it done. It's so nice and soft.
...we're trying to figure out landscaping. In just a few days we will be working on the front landscaping. We've been trying to figure out where we want the curbing, the trees, and the bushes. It's so hard to picture! We took some spray paint and marked out the different flower beds. That helped a lot, but they're going to ruin all our hard work when they do their final leveling.
...Emma and I started doodling as we read the scriptures. We read a chapter from the Book of Mormon and then draw pictures to go with it. It has been such a refreshing way to read the scriptures. It has helped her to stay awake and pay attention. It has helped me to connect on a new level; to look at them from a new angle. (Emma's are on the top, mine on bottom)
...Shelly Norman and I met for lunch at Frost Me Sweet in Richland. It was so fun to get together and catch up on each other's lives. We shared our word for the year with each other. We wrote our word down and then swapped them at the table. Then discussed why we chose that word. So fun! We took a picture with the statue of a dog in the parking area. "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx
