Pumpkin time

Our neighbors invited us to tag-a-long to the pumpkin farm.  I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into.  The kiddos had a blast...

Yoda, "this is my FIRST time seeing REAL hay!"

Here are some videos of the windy day. 

Bathroom

Here's the update.  The plumber and the tile fitter did all the hard work.  We've still got a bit more to do, and when I say we, I mean me.  Greg would like to help, but he's busy; he finances the whole thing, and that's an important job.

I will post again when the room is complete, for now it's functional and that's good enough.

Just as a refresher here's where we started at day one

 Old floor (this one's for you, mom)  

I pulled up the floor, it took about 15 minutes, gross.  I also emptied out the bathrooms.  

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 Day two = tub and wall out. 

 

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 Day three = tub in and vanity out.  

At this point we still had a fully functional bathroom in our room, and this toilet still worked. 

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Here's a couple day-end photos of the tile work.  It's so lovely.  

 

 Extra protection RedGard paint. 

 See the little shampoo nooks?  And tile all the way to the ceiling?  So classy!

I did some wall repair and I added some trim around the room.  

I also painted (yes, it's blue, but a better blue!) 

 I also stained a new, smaller vanity.  

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 Here's today!

Sink, toilet, and working shower and tub.  The kiddos were so excited they brought in their light-up, Angry Birds toothbrushes to brush their teeth.  They might go back to our room for brushing until there's a mirror to stare at. 

I'll let you know when there's something new to report! 

This was the conversation at 2 am...

Greg to Yoda, "you're a good boy"
Yoda, "sometimes I'm not very good at listening"

he had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night but didn't make it. 

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At General Conference on Sunday Yoda saw something like this


"All the blues are womans"

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Here's a little video with Yoda pretty excited about the progress of our little bathroom reno.

And here's Mimi helping out, in a tiara no less...

Scout Update

Parker and his 11-year-old boy scout leaders worked hard this summer, he made it to Tenderfoot rank.

Also in scouting news...

I put all our scout stuff in shadow boxes that weren't already boxed.  But before I did I wanted a photo of Mimi in my old sash that my mom saved for me. 

 Yoda "photo-bomb" Gibby

Mimi has 20+ patches on the back of her Brownie vest, but I had a precious few back in the day.  There was one I liked SO much I took it off of the sash some time in High School and sewed it on my back pack.  It's now lost, but all these years later I wanted to have my sash back in it's complete form.  

Enter Ebay!  

I found someone selling the exact patch!  So I bought it and added it to my shadow box.  A few weeks ago I finally hung up all the boxes.  

Of course all my patches started falling down!  DOH!!! 

The patch I was referring to is the green flag.

It's in upper-right-hand corner of the shadow box on the left....

Yoda's first day of Preschool

Yoda was READY for his first day of preschool.  SO happy to get the year started!  I asked him where he wanted his picture taken and he wanted to stand by our new tree.  We just had it planted this summer, I love it too!  Yoda and this tree have the same middle name (Glen), so he feels especially fond of it. 

Bathrooms Day One

So for 6 years I've complained about our bathrooms, here's a short list of my complaints:

Nothing special
Old, but not in a good way
Weird, ours is weird
The floor is so worn it's slippery
Nothing is painted nicely

Today we started tearing things out...

Our bathroom... It's a sink... in our bedroom.  Weird.  Now that we've lived with it for 6 years, I kinda forget just how weird it is. 

Kid's bathroom, nothing special.  The blue is tired.  I want something different!  

Wish us luck!!! 

Mimi's day with the horses

Mimi went to a birthday party and she got to ride a horse for the first time.  She was excited, then nervous, then confident.  She did better then I thought, but had to be redirected a few times from the women helping.  It was a beautiful day and she couldn't have been happier. 

Here's a couple videos for fun...

Mimi, "good thing I'm wearing cowboy boots"

In this one the instructor make the *click* sound to get the horse going faster.  Mimi made the cutest little "ugh" sound.  This made me giggle.  

When another girl says she wants to slow down the instructor reminds all of them to pull the reigns to their belly button to slow down, and that's what Mimi did.  She calmed down. 

Me, "Smile!"

Great News

Yoda learned to ride a 2 wheeler

*small victories are what I live for*

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Yoda, "I'm going to ride this...my old bike without training wheels."
Me: giggle and "wahoo!"
Yoda, "That's so Epic!"

I owe it all the balance bike that I got him a year or so ago (for $15 second-hand).  He had almost no trouble switching to a two-wheeler once he was really ready. 

Here he is showing how that bike works.

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Foodie and Photobomb

Occasionally Yoda sits at the table like this...


and this comes to mind...

While taking this Charlie-Brown-type photo, Mimi decided to jump in. 

Then Yoda jumped in the photo I was trying to take of her and her new boots. 


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Also, we went to a place I've been meaning to go for a LONG while.  It's a diner that has all sorts of doughnuts and stuff.  Parker got the burger and I got the breakfast sandwich, both have a doughnut instead of a bun.  It read "basically it's the best thing ever" and it was.  Calories smalories...

Boots

Mimi fell in love with cowboy boots on our last trip to Utah, so Granddad gifted her a pair of boots when we got back to Ohio...

We walked in the store and she knew just what she wanted!

what Yoda says...

 Making Rice Crispies

 Division in the rain...

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Yoda from the back of van, "Mom, Sophia broke my heart!"
I turned around to see this...

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While driving Yoda said, "Why is that train stopped?  Maybe he stopped to rest his weary wheels."
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Parker saw Yoda throw a shoe, then said, "The shoe landed right where you wanted it to!"
Yoda misheard him, and said, "My friend at school is Landon."

Best Summer EVER!

It never really got that hot!  Today it's supposed to be 90 degrees for the first time I can remember!

But because it never got that hot we didn't do some of the hot things on our Summer List.  No lake, no washing the car, I think we played in the sprinkler one time. 

So out of 61 things I had in mind to do this summer we did a total of 23!  Bummer!

A few of the things we should have done...

Backyard camping
Bowling
Cook with mom
Farmers Market
Make ice cream
Museum
PJ day!


A few things we did do and didn't take photos

Have lunch with dad
Summer reading program
Make cookies
Meteor Shower

Here's #52 S'mores...

(a ridiculous photo)

One last thing!  Parker made a goal to ride his bike 50 miles this summer and he did it!