Field day fun

School is now over. But before it could be, there had to be field day! So here's some pictures and videos from the fun. We went to watch Ayden in the morning, and then Eli had his in the afternoon. Brings back a lot of memories for me!
Eli doing the sack race
Eli doing the bucket blast

Cayde having a snack during field day

Ayden with his ribbons.


Here is Eli doing his part of a water relay race they did.

Now it is on to summer time and finding things to fill up our days and keep us busy. I am sure we will come up with plenty to do. On to growing grass and gardens. I am so excited there are plants sprouting in the garden! Maybe we will not be failures after all. The grass has only been going for a week, and we have been working to keep it wet. Hopefully it will begin to take root and spring up. I am looking forward to having a lovely yard!

Watering Woes

School is quickly coming to a close. I can't believe it is the end of May already and then summer will be upon us. We are working hard to get landscaping done in our yard. We finally finished moving all the rock from our back yard (of course by we, I mean Joe did most of the hard labor). So now this weekend we plan to rotatill and plant grass seed. I know it is kind of late for planting the grass seed, but this is the first opportunity we will have to get it done, so such is life. My problem now is figuring out the best way to water once it has been put down. Installing an automated sprinkler system would be ideal, but I just don't see that happening right now. So now I am looking at all the myriad of sprinklers you hook to a hose trying to figure out what would be most efficient, and of course cost effective. Some of the obstacles making this difficult are: 1. The yard is divided into 5 distinct areas-- 2 near the house, 2 across the side walk, making up the "common" area, and 1 in the backyard; and 2. All the areas are square, and most sprinklers water in a circle. Since we get a lot of foot traffic down our street, it doesn't seem like a good idea to try to water across the sidewalks, but maybe people will just have to deal with that. I just don't know. I am not complaining, just confused. There really are lots of options out there. Ideally, I would like to buy sprinklers that can be hooked together by hoses and thus water more than one area at a time, but maybe I really just need to resign myself to the fact that I will be spending the next several weeks at the mercy of a timer that goes off every 15 minutes telling me to get up and move the sprinkler! If any of you out there have any wisdom into such matters, please enlighten me. Here's hoping to more days of 70 degrees than 90 so the grass can grow happily!

Mother's Day

I had to wait til after mother's day to post this so I wouldn't ruin the surprise for my female relatives. But I have to show off what my sister and I made for our mother, mother-in-law, grandmothers and aunt for mother's day. Instead of a simple card, we made these exploding boxes with pictures and notes from our little boys in them.

Here is the inside. They had 3 different layers that all fold up into box shapes.

And the cute little quote for the top.

My sister found the idea on the internet, so if you are interested, just google "Exploding Box" and you should find some sort of help or instructions. They were a big hit with everyone. We had a few husbands who also wondered why they didn't get one too. Maybe for father's day...... Hope you all had a lovely Mother's Day!