Scout creation

This is Justin's Genius Kit Creation for the Genius Night at the Blue & Gold Banquet for scouting. It is a sailboat race heading for rapids. They were given a bag of odds and ends and told to creation something using nothing but the bag contents and tape and glue and crayons or markers. Scott, Eli and I helped out coloring the water. I think it turned out very awesome!! One boat is made out of Styrofoam, one is wood and one is popsicle sticks. The rapids and the sails are made out of plastic bags. The little people are made out of little sticks and twist ties. The rocks in front are also cut up styrofoam.

Winter's back

After we got our fence out and the stump out on Saturday, we spent the rest of the night watching netflix with the boys because we where to exhausted to do anything else. Sunday, we woke up to the surprise of 6 inches of snow covering the piles of fence we didn't have time to take to the dump. What was suppose to be a small storm, turned into a pretty big winter storm. This morning, I went out to uncover the boards. My dad brought his trailer and two of our neighbors came over and we got the rest of the wood up. Of course today is a holiday, so dump is closed. But my dad was nice enough to take the wood in his trailer and said he would dump it tomorrow. All we have to do now is take out three more posts and clear away the snow so the installers can come put in our new vinyl posts. Then a week later they will come and put the rest of the fence up. We are going to do cement about 6 inches wide under the fence, mostly because in the back, our yard is 4-5 inches higher then the neighbors yard, which we found out when we took out the rotted boards that were buried a few inches down. So, we need a small retaining wall. FUN FUN FUN. Our baby is now out of a crib. Sad day, but happy too. We took down the crib Sunday night and Eli slept in a toddler bed for the first time. He did really well. It helped that he didn't take a nap, so he was exhausted. When he laid down with his pillow pet, it took all of 5 minutes to dose off. This morning, he did his usual morning call "MAAA, MAAAAAA" and I had to call "Come to Momma, you can get up" and then he realized that he could just get out and come to me himself, he was very excited about that.

Pain in the .....

We are finally replacing our old, rotting wooden fence with a new white vinyl fence. But before they come to install it next week, we needed to tear down and haul away the old fence and rip out a stump that was on the side of the yard, just a few inches from the sidewalk. The people that put up the wooden fence had it installed 4 feet from the sidewalk!! We are going to add 3 1/2 feet to our yard. While the boys and I knocked down the old fence, David took the first load to the dump and rented the tractor to dig out the stump. We got the fence down in 4 hours and after digging for 2 hours the stump finally came out. We still have to haul some old fence wood away and clean up the dirt and mud from digging up the stump and the fence posts, but dirty and sore, we have quit for the day.

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