Summertime

So its been a little bit... here is some recap of the summer. 

I teach summer school in June but not on Fridays.  So Keaton and I went to eat breakfast/lunch  at the Flight Deck Cafe.  Fun little place out at Gateway Airport where you can see the planes take off from the windows.  He had a blast.  If it was nice outside we really should have packed our own lunch and sat in the grass..maybe October break.

Looking at all the parked planes outside.

Made the menu into an airplane.

Watching through the window. Making his plane go at the same time as the real ones.

Also in June Keaton played on a little T-ball team.  I got to be his coach and that was quite an experience with 3 and 4 year olds.  It started off kinda fun but even at 8 am it's too hot to be outside for an hour playing baseball in June and July. 

His team was the Diamondbacks, but they had the old colors.

Base path?  What base path?  We were lucky if they even got to the right base!

Ok well I think that catches us up for June....July to come soon.

Mini Mustangs

Keaton finished his first year of preschool.  They had a litlte program where the kids performed some songs and chants they had learned over the year, like this one...they are fish.

He did not graduate from preschool of course, he's only 3 but did receive a one year certificate of completion.

And of course we had refreshments, the zucchini for the bread was from their preschool garden!

Love my big boy!

We're still here...

Things we like to do...

Go for bike rides in front of the house.

Bake Cookies in our Kitchen

(ok this picture is kinda creepy to me)

Add some life to our bathrooms

Take silly pictures of ourselves before church

Spend time together having fun...summer time is almost here!

Easter delayed

At my parents I was spoiled with a computer that had an SD card reader in it, my computer is not so fancy, I will actually have to dig a cord out of a box to upload photos from my camera...that is my excuse for no recent posts.

Easter came and went.  It was conference Sunday we stayed home and relaxed all day.  I don't have BYU channel and didn't want to drag my 3 year old to church so I watched part of the morning session on line but got the whole afternoon session in during Keaton's nap time.

The night before we colored our eggs then Easter morning his dad came over to help him with his egg hunt.  Keaton had a fun time of course.  He did ask why the easter bunny didn't bring him more candy.  I guess the easter bunny must have really stuffed those eggs full last year.  But the kid does have mounds of candy left from Halloween still.  Well only hard stuff the chocolate has all been eaten of course. 

All in all...fun times.

Chuck E. Cheese

Keaton has always wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese.  Well he got his wish recently when he went for his friend Trenner's birthday.  He had a great time on the rides, hanging out with his school friends and collecting tickets. 

One funny side note...he says it's Chucky Cheeses, and if I say just cheese he tells me no it's cheeses.  Driving in the car that day he told me that Cheeses rhymes with Jesus.  And it does. :)

Random

Keaton's pig mask from Farm Week at school, he has lots of other fun 'costumes' he makes for school but this one is extra funny, thought the eye lashes look a bit girly.

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Last weekend my brother and his wife went out of town for her birthday.  We got to dog-sit Toby and Tinkerbell.  It was lots of fun for us.

My house was pretty nasty when we bought it...so we've been dealing with the lesser evils for a while.  We use Keaton's tub and my bathroom sink.  But I finally got brave and thanks to the "Turbo Snake" which I picked up a Walmart, I cleaned out the drain.  Yes this is from a sink drain in the hall bath.  I got a litte bit from the master bath sink but have not braved the tubs yet.  Keaton's tub drains just fine.  We knew they weren't using that one because there was the same dead roach in it every time we visited for 4 months :)  My shower is filthy dirty it's obviously the one they used and I haven't gotten around to pulling the hair out of it yet...need a few more weeks to get the courage up.

Progress...

No i'm not finished yet and yes it's taken more than a month, but we're getting closer!

This is the before pic.

Today I pulled out that tree that blocks all views to and from my front door.   I added some flowers, hope I can keep them alive :)

Dirty living room carpet and old wall paint before

New Paint and the first half of the wood .  Its down the hallway and finished in half of the living room.  Getting closer.

Keaton's bedroom.  A little bare still but at least it's a start :)

Keaton's bath...again a little sparse but looking good.

Kitchen with the tile completed :)

It's been almost 6 weeks of long nights.   It would have been much easier if we even had a full spare weekend!

Ok things to do...

      finsh flooring in the living room 

      put base boards back on in kitchen, living, hall

      paint the doors and put them back on

      painting touch ups

      buy a bed for myself

Should be done soon.  As soon as the flooring is finished Monday, we're moving in.  The rest can be done with us in there.  I'm so exciting to have a few hours of rest soon.  Thank goodness for spring break!