Playing around at the park

Daddy took Nate and Eve to the park while Mommy and Ellie were at a baby shower.

How does your garden groove?

The third grade classes along with the 1-3 grade choir club at the school presented the musical “How Does Your Garden Groove?” It was very cute and clever with lots of puns.

Ellie and Eve are ready for the show. Grammy, Grampy, Grandma, and Grandpa also made it for the show.

Nate was really nervous about the show and really didn’t want to do it. We encouraged him to do his best. He followed his teacher’s instructions meticulously and always made sure to smile when they weren’t singing. He told us afterward that “he didn’t want to disappoint his audience.”

We were so proud of Nate! This was a challenge for him. He even volunteered to read a garden fact and he did a great job.

End of the show. They all did a great job!

Kitchen Tiling Project

To start off the new year we decided to finally tile the kitchen floor. When we pulled up the moldy Pergo we found laminate sticky tiles stuck on top of rolled laminate flooring. Paul spent some time pulling all that off. Then the floor needed to be scarred/grinded to remove the adhesive which left lots of dust/dirt all around the downstairs as you can see in these pictures. I guess that is one way to motivate yourself to dust!

Paul and his friend Jon got half of the floor laid while the kids and I were in Flagstaff.

The next weekend we rented a real tile saw and finished up the project.

Thanks to Paul’s hard work we now have a newly tiled kitchen floor! We really like it!