Another Week!

This was a weird week for me. I’m not sure, how to enter back into real life after a vacation. We were thrown off with the sunshine that was here when we got home. That made me get out in it and play a little. We rode our bikes to the park again on Tuesday. We had library books to return, so we visited the “library park”. The big girls have become big fans of the books “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”. They just love them. I guess they are pretty funny.

The clouds started rolling in on Wednesday, but I stayed busy. I took  apart our rotting BBQ and replaced the inner parts so it would quit flaming out the sides and actually cook something! It was a big pain, but I am so happy to have it done. It saved us from buying a new BBQ and maybe we’ll get a couple more years out of it now. Then, I had to go out and buy a bunch of stuff to grill for dinners. Yum!

We all also started cleaning up the yard. Tegan helped by raking up the leaves in the yard because Michael offered her some money. She is a hard worker! Things are starting to look up in our yard. Yeah spring!

I’m in charge of taking a class photo of Anika’s preschool class. I put together a cute photo collage of the class and their individual pictures. The teacher said I could sell them to the other parents for a profit if I wanted!

On Friday I had to take Kelby down for her dentist appointment. She had to have her exposed root planed down a bit to see if that would help her gums to grow back over it. Her gums on that side are very tender and unhealthy. Now I’m going to be brushing her teeth for awhile to see if I can help. At least her appointment went really well this time. They just hooked her right up to the Nitrous and she managed through it without any freaking out or tears.

On Saturday we went as a family out to the Tulip Run. We all took part this time. This was a 2 mile run/walk. Mike ran and got a second place metal in his age bracket. Kelby actually made it running the whole way! She said she didn’t walk at all. She had her headphones on and jogged off on her own. Tegan tried too and ended up finding friends to walk with. Anika and I walked behind. It was a fun family adventure. It felt good to get in some exercise.

After dinner on Saturday we dyed some Easter eggs. The girls always enjoy that so much. It is a nice, easy, and cheap craft to do! We did spill some dye on the carpet under the kitchen table though.

On Sunday we went to church and then to Grandma and Grandpa Wright’s house. All the cousins did their Easter Egg hunt first. It was simplified this year…no candy! I thought it was wonderful having no candy. We had a yummy, simple lunch and Heather brought a delightful carrot cake. That was plenty of sweetness and the kids weren’t constantly asking about candy. The girls got Easter baskets from Mike and I that were “bath” themed. That way the got lots of stuff they would use and not a bunch of junk food. I gave them each a chocolate bunny, so they weren’t totally deprived.

Now onto another week that will surely zip past. We have only 8 weeks of school left! I’m even in the process of registering Anika for preschool for next year! Countdown to summer…hopefully the weather will brighten up for us again this week.

Here’s a couple fun things I made:

Andrea…check out my computer now!