Week in Review...

We had some sprinkler issues last weekend, so I ended up digging out a bunch of our grass and then refilling it. We were testing out the sprinklers to make sure they were working good on Monday night and the kids decided to go through them. Abby Jane was in heaven! She thought it was the funnest thing ever.

On Tuesday night Ashlyn and Jacob were in their schools choir performance. They sang all of the songs that I grew up listening to on television. They sang the Brady Bunch theme song, Jacob was actually a "son" as you can see from the pics. They also sang the Addams Family theme song, the Love Boat theme song, Fraggle rock and manamana. It was really cute.

On Wednesday night I was talking with Rick about how much I hate this cactus that is right in front of our house. It's right in front of our walkway and front door and it's very prickly with thorns. Every time that we prune it we dread picking up after it because we always got cut up. I have just always thought of it as an eye sore. So anyway, Rick left for scouts and so I took Abby outside and I just decided to start digging around it to see how deep the roots went. I started digging and found that they weren't very deep, so I started chopping at the roots and digging further and further below the cactus until it actually started rocking! By the time that Rick got home from scouts I had it about 90% out! He started trying to help me haul it out, it must've weight about 2-300 lbs! Pretty soon our neighbor saw we needed help and grabbed some rope. We wrapped rope around it and hauled it out. I was so happy! We also have the same cactus in front of our big tree that you can just barely see in the right of this picture. I took that out the next night wile Rick was gone and when he came home we both hauled it out. It feels so good to have them out! Here's a before shot, this was actually taken about a year ago, but you get the idea of what the cactus looked like...

Here's an After shot, cactus is gone!! The other cactus was right in front of the big tree, having them gone makes the yard look so much bigger!

We also had a cement pad put in a few months ago and I forgot to post pics of it. We love having a nice walkway to the backyard for hauling the garbage and recycle out every week and Rick parks on the extra pad. Here's a BEFORE shot...

Here's an After shot of the extra pad and walkway to the gate. We love it!

Looks so much better now! Much more kid friendly and open:)

On Saturday we decided to take the kids to the tennis courts at the high school to play tennis. They had lots of fun learning how to play and Abby Jane loved climbing the bleachers over and over and over again. I think she ran the whole time, she was just so happy to be outside and free to run.