2nd Week of May - 9th Week of Quarantine

It's starting to look more like Spring everywhere, including our yard.  Trees have leaves on them again, flowers are in bloom, and the grass is growing.  We had a pretty fun/busy week.  Steve was busy helping other w/ their yard projects.  He also helped Nyles finish up his schoolwork.  The next couple weeks they are just going to do review work.  I was busy at work, and I had a Dr appt.  By the end of the week I was 25 weeks along.  The baby is growing right on target.  He's very active, moving a lot right now, and most nights wakes me up from his movement.  We're getting excited to meet him in a few months.  Here are some other highlights this past week.

More pretty tulips in bloom around the yard.

I love the colors!

Light and dark colors.

I love the reds and purples and even yellows.

We even have peach colors in the front.

Monday, May 11th, Steve went up to help Stacie and Phill replace part of their wooden fence.

They made pretty good progress the first day.

All but the gate and end done on the 1st day.

Steve went back the next day to help finish it.  He built the fence gate and end piece.

Looking good!

Yeah!

Good looking fence and gate!

All done!!!

Cute Nyles and Carter playing in the sand with Piper, outside my office window.

Nyles and Carter playing Wii Sports and Grandma/Grandpas.

Cute boys jumping on the trampoline w/ their American Flags.

Then jumping w/ bouncy balls.

Steve went fishing again w/ Rob Thursday night.

Friday, Steve and the boys went over to help Dave put in mulch.  As Dave was getting out the weeds and old bark, Steve used the wheelbarrow to haul it out in the back.  Nyles was a big helper as well.

He helped scoop up the mulch into the wheel barrow.

Then on Saturday I came back w/ them to help finish up.  

Steve cut down some quaking aspen in their back yard w/ his chainsaw.  

Good work honey!  Steve also trimmed the bushes too.

Nyles then moved the big logs out.

While they did that I used the wheel barrow to bring mulch over the back yard and Dave spread it.

All done, looks great!  3 trees out and 5 or more bushes trimmed.

Steve and Dave ran our huge load of old bark, bushes and trees out to the dump.  

This isn't even half of it we loaded on the trailer!

Unfortunately everyone was cleaning out their overgrown yards on Saturday, so the line to the dump was a little long.  It took a little longer to drop off, but they made it there and back.

While they drove out there, the boys played Wii Sports again.

More pretty tulips.

Our yard is coming together.

Our pear tree is starting to bloom.

And other flowers too in the yard.

After working hard in Dave's yard, the boys wanted to make S'mores that night.

Piper checking out what we're doing/eating.

Steve helping Carter w/ his marshmallow.

Carter riding his bike w/ the American Flag.

Cute Piper resting on her bed.

On Sunday, we went over to Pauline's to celebrate Chris' birthday.  We then had a few activities demonstrating unity.  The kids learned how to play together w/ water balloon volleyball toss.

Then tried a water balloon toss.

And then of course they had to have a water balloon fight!

After the kids changed their clothes, we played one more game of stacking cups together w/ a string and a rubber band.  They did pretty well.

Later, back home after dinner, we decided to go for a short adventure.

We found a new trail, which the kids loved!

It's actually made for kids w/ stumps to climb on.

There were tree forts made out of branches to climb into.

Another one.

Trees to climb under.

More stumps to climb on.

It's called the Jungle Trail

Carter caught a ride coming back.

Piper enjoyed the walk/adventure as well.  

She's getting much better on her leash, Nyles can even walk her now.

Pretty sunset for a Sunday night!

We hope you're all doing well.  We love you lots!

A couple great quotes from President Monson.