Fun stuff

So some fun stuff happened last week, and I never got my camera out. Fiora learned to ride her bike sans training wheels last week! Riding on the street by our house was making her cry out of frustration. I remembered back to when Savanna learned way back last summer and how we tried on the street, sidewalk, grass and nothing was helping until we took her to the Big Black Top at the Elementary School. There you can ride and ride and all you have to do is avoid a few basketball poles. So Friday as soon as school was out I took Fiora to the black top and she and I rode bikes for an hour around and around. She hit one pole but otherwise she got it! And she was able to ride home on the sidewalk and loved it.
On Saturday while Jared was spending all day with the Scouts I attacked the flower garden patch in our front yard. The grass had completely overtaken it. I had to remove every one of the 20 pound cement landscaping blocks to dig up the grass underneath them and spray it with week/grass killer and lay tarp. Then turning the soil was like digging up sod! I was cursing grass with every mild word I could think of from 9 AM to 2 PM. I had to run to home depot in the middle and buy some bulbs and a sprinkler head I dug up. Yes I am still very sore. It looked so great when it was all cleaned up, wish I'd taken a picture. Why not take one now? Because it is snowing outside. I loved those 3 days of nice weather!
Weston has been "not caring" about things lately. When we ask him to put socks on with those shoes he says, "I don't care." Or lets cut your hair, "I don't care." Weston, it is Sunday and we don't play on the computer on Sunday. "I don't care." You'll care tomorrow when your grounded from the computer! He really puts a voice to how much the kids don't care for my ideas/rules.
Last week was reunion time with Jared's family. And again, nary a photo. Jared took the kids down to Gunnison Sunday to see Uncle Troy and Aunt Lisa, Jared's sister who lives in Kansas, and their two boys at Grandma Schauers house. Then Monday those Mitchels came up to Utah County and we had a nice dinner all together at Wendy Snow's. Then Chad (Jared's brother) and Robin and their 4 kids came down from Montana and Thursday we all got together at the Mayan for a reunion dinner. It took them an hour to seat the 30 of us on a not very busy night. The kids love to see their cousins. It was fun to be with so many of Jared's family that week.
So I will get the camera out more often this week so I won't miss capturing these fun happenings. We are so blessed.