Building Adventures!

Lennard went to work this morning, but then came home at about 9:00 and said that he was taking the day off!  We pulled out the instructions and were a little taken aback when it said that it would take 10-12 hours for two people to assemble the playhouse… with an additional 2 hours for the slide!  We figured we could beat that time, so we got opening boxes and quickly discovered that… yup… it will definitely take that long… and longer to complete everything!  Thankfully everything was labelled really well and we had all the tools that we needed (Sorry Lennard – no new tools for this project!).

By the end of the day, this is what we had got done.  The kids were already thrilled to have a door that opened and closed!  They even have a little chalkboard sign to draw on.  We’re definitely going to be stiff and sore tomorrow!

 

Spoiled Rotten

It’s been a fun weekend.  Lennard’s dad arrived for a visit on Friday night (the 26th).  On Saturday, Lennard had Priesthood Leadership and then I went to the Adult session of Stake Conference while he stayed home with the kids and visited with his dad.  It was an excellent session and I enjoyed being able to attend.  Sunday was Stake Conference and the kids did okay… thankfully we were sitting beside my parents, so that was a life saver!  On the way home from church, Emma decided to ‘help’ Ben move a little faster by pushing him… too bad he couldn’t go any faster!  He face planted with the sidewalk and scraped his nose up.  The poor kid always has some kind of bruise, cut, scrape, etc.  Thankfully it’s healing quickly.

Lovely weather for a visit - right, Dad?!

On Tuesday, we decided to go in to Lethbridge and have breakfast at Cora’s.  Yum!  Little expensive, but so delicious!  The kids thought the best part of the whole meal was when they both got balloons afterwards!  We then wandered around Costco and while grabbing the few things that we needed, Emma managed to lose her balloon (slight drama ensued) and Grandpa got the crazy idea that he needed to spoil his grandkids!  We headed home, and then, while I stayed home with the kids, Lennard and his dad headed back in to Lethbridge with the truck to buy a huge playhouse for the kids!  When they got home, Lennard had me come out to see the load of boxes in the truck only to find that Grandpa had decided to spoil more than just the grandkids and bought us a patio swing!  (So excited!).  We definitely feel very spoiled! 

Now to put everything together!

      

Ben’s nose – starting to heal.                              Love that they will hold hands!

The load of boxes!  Love you, Dad!

Hangin’ Out

We’ve had a nice quiet day hanging out with Grandpa and watching movies.  I love that Ben will snuggle right in and visit with Grandpa.  We don’t get to see him nearly often enough, so it’s nice to make memories while he’s here!

If You Chance to Meet a Frown…

While most people only see a happy, smiling little girl, I had to document that I do get ‘the scowl’ every once in a while…

       

The kids had fun playing with their cousins this afternoon.  Mason even had fun being a ‘princess’ with Emma!  Gotta love blackmail photos!

Chocolate!

Emma LOVES chocolate, so when I finished icing the brownies and she wanted to lick the spatula, I handed it over.  I started washing up some dishes, turned around, and found little miss smearing the icing all over her face!  What a little goof!

Crazy Kids

No matter how hard I try to get the kids to eat at the table, this is what I end up finding instead… Ben made his own little breakfast spot at the art table and Emma decided on a more portable option.  Amazingly, they are both using SPOONS!  (Almost never happens!)

  

This afternoon while the kids were playing outside, we found Emma enjoying a ‘shower’ off the trailer!  She was soaked!  Didn’t hurt anything… so we just let her have fun!

   

Sunday Afternoon

We made the mistake of waking Ben up from his nap after church… as you can see – he was NOT happy about it!  Won’t do that again.  What a rough evening.

After about an hour, he finally ‘woke’ up and was happy… especially when he got to hang out with Daddy!