We love you! We're thankful you were surrounded by friends and family this weekend. What a nice change. Love seeing my twin and family with my boys! Thanks for sharing all the pictures with us!
Friday I went into work with Dad. I hung all his pictures and plaques, and unpacked his bobble head collection. It was impressive. I haven't seen them all together as he's never had them unpacked. The ones his Marshall students gave him really increased his collection. Breyer did a good job watching Dad's computer. He was at a meeting, and then he took us home. We're glad to help, and don't have a problem being locked in an office for a few hours!
(So sorry your tickets didn't arrive...glad you could watch conference next door!)
Friday night Cooper got to play in the high school marching band at their football game. The middle school kids got fed dinner at the school first, and sat with the band during the game. He loved it, of course. Maybe they'll post some pictures on the website later this week.
(Isn't this temple beautiful?)
We had a little bit of an adventure ourselves, yesterday. We rented a moving truck and moved the explosive fracking pipe out of the backyard. We only had an hour to load it up, between the time when we could pick up the moving truck and the time when the recycling plant closed. Those pipes are heavy! It took four of us to lift each pipe. Joe, our neighbor, and the other party involved in the "let's collect some pipe to build us a fence" project came out and helped us They barely fit in the 26 foot truck, but we got all forty in the back in a timely manner, and Dad took them, along with the broken kennel and lawn mower that was left behind.
Can you believe he got over $700 for the pipe? Subtracting the $200 it cost for the truck and gas, and he made a bit of a profit. Of course, since I put my shorts in the washing machine with my camera still in the pocket, the profit is much less. Hence, the reason there are no pictures from me in the letter. We're in the market, and it might be a few days before I can get my hands on another one.
Dad has some interesting things to say about how they off loaded the pipe. The huge crane grabs the stuff right out of your truck, gets the chain swinging, and releases to throw it in a huge pile. He felt like an ant visiting the termite mound. His impression was he was going to have the pipe hit the truck instead of the pile. He was glad to leave!
(Matt, thank you SO much for taking care of my boys!)
The boys spent most of today painting the bricks we found out in the backyard with different international and state flags, even a pirate flag made one brick. Pictures will have to be forthcoming, sorry! They want to use them in the planned fire pit for the back deck. I'm thinking I might do a planter instead.
(Your storm trooper comment made me laugh!)
Sawyer wanted to make homemade ice cream, so he's been filling and emptying ice cube trays all week so he'd have enough ice. Today was the day. It was a yummy vanilla. Porter made us crepes for lunch, and turnovers for dinner. Yum! Anything with whipped cream and fruit is delicious. We put meat and cheese in the turnovers.
That's the week in a few words...we love you two the most!
Mom
(This brought back a few Londrina memories!)
2 comments:
Looks like they had an awesome time at conference! Eldon was so excited when there was a talk in Portuguese and then so bummed when he couldn't hear it IN Portuguese!
How cool that Tanner ran into Parker! I love our small LDS world.
Love the posts and the pictures. I have fond memories of being in the church center and listening to the organ being played and the choir singing. It was so long ago when Uncle David and I were there.
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