Monday, June 15, 2020

Week 12-Pat's birthday

I'm glad we had the photo shoot when we did, because our backyard had a rough week:).  The flowers died, and I was excited to get the yard ready for a BBQ for Pat's birthday, so I used Scott's on the lawn, but didn't realize it was on a different setting than I normally use, so it dumped the fertilizer on the lawn  leaving yellow burnt spots on it! And I went crazy trimming the rhododendrons, so it took a turn for the bad!


The sand pit and the trampoline have been great staples the last couple months!!





Grace wanted to get a picture with "Little Chub".
Pat's birthday!
I was super proud of myself to make this triple layer German chocolate cake! I was surprised when Pat made the request for his birthday, because I had never heard him say he liked this type of cake! The girls were a great help! 

We had an outdoor only party for him with his family.  It was a little rainy, but not bad!

Then we celebrated with him on his actual birthday with bagels and Bamford Bakery! 





Saturday, June 6, 2020

Week 11-Quarantine photoshoot:)

The kids only had three days of school because of Memorial Day and no school on Fridays, so our week went quick! And it was the hottest week of the quarantine. It got up to 95 degrees on Thursday!
We had our first play-dates.  The Morris' came over on Tuesday and brought water balloons, which was fun because of the heat! And Friday Will got to go to Jack's and then we went to Mindy's house for slip n slide and pond time! It was so refreshing to hang out with friends, but it also made me realize I want to ease back into all of this!
Another thing that was on my list since Mother's Day was to get a family picture.  Our backyard peaks the week of Leo's birthday, so I wanted to try to get some pictures before the rhododendron flowers died.  It was super nice of our neighbor to come over and take some pictures! And fun that he has a really nice camera and enjoys taking pictures:).


The second part of his photo shoot was a focus on Leo:).  He was so hyper that Tim took a bunch of pictures of him! 





And this was my own picture, trying to capture all the colors (and the kids:), from earlier in the week. 


Game time:).  The days get so busy with school that it's rare to feel like there is time to play a game.  That is something I'm looking forward to this summer, slower days!

Creek day with Aunt Kelly! We had to forge our way through the grasses to get there, but since it was 95 degrees out, it was worth it!