Tanners Hat

All of my kids have something they drag around with them for security. For Zander and Sarah it's a blanket, for Brendan it's usually something that fits in his pocket or a picture of his dad. For Tanner it's an old ratty Spiderman pillow that has been sewn up several times. He thinks he's too old to carry around a snugly things or to sleep with snugly things so on Saturday mornings this is how I find him.

It isn't his pillow anymore, it's his hat.

Tanners Movie

Tanner has decided that he wants to be an artist when he grows up, but he has yet to decide what type of artist he wants to be, it chages frequently. Yesterday he was an actor and director. Here is his movie.

I have the best husband in the world!!!

I have been a little bummed lately about my garden because my husband told me that this year I had to choose either a vegetable garden or fruit trees and grape vines. I couldn't have both so I chose the fruit because they take longer to set fruit. I needed to start them this year for fruit next year, hopefully. Then on Saturday when I came home from the super activity my husband was in the backyard making planter boxes,. He said when we get some money I could buy some plants, but we never have extra money because I don't budget. This morning when I went out to the backyard there were ten bags of soil, a bag of seed potatoes, and seeds for all my favorite vegetables.

and about a week and a half ago I was complaining that I never get to see my chickens because they have to stay in the barn so he made a screen across the front so I can open the doors and watch the girls while I clean the kitchen. He really is the greatest husband ever!

The fallowing pictures were taken by Zander, my little shutter bug, to show what Dad had made for me.

Sarah

Sarah has discovered the blog, so here she is again with her friend Katie.

Sarah's Music

Sarah is learning to play the recorder in her music class at school. She is pretty good (not that the recorder is that hard but I can't do it) She only has to here a song once or twice and she can usually repeat it. When Brendan is doing his band practice she sits out side his door and tries to repeat each son he plays. It drives him nuts.

Reading

Yesterday the kids were supposed to be playing outside so I could get some stuff done upstairs. When I came back downstairs this is what I found.

They're not very good pictures, but they figured out I was taking pictures before I could run around and close all the curtains.

I'm Stuck!

When we moved into our house we didn't have a fridge so we went to Home Depot and bought a little tiny fridge until we could save enough money for a big fridge. When we finally had the money my husband said we would have to wait because he had three drill weekends in a row and he didn't have time to install a new fridge. We were having to go to the grocery store like every three days because our fridge couldn't hold enough groceries for our family and I wasn't gonna do that for three more weeks so I told him I would install it and even take out the old fridge. He just had to help me get it through the front door and that was it. Thursday night we went to Lowe's and got the new fridge and he helped me get it in the door and the went to bed early because he had to work and had drill both on the same day. So I took the new fridge to the kitchen and plugged it in and let it cool for 24 hrs like the book said. Saturday morning I woke up and emptied the old fridge, moved it out of the way and put the new fridge in place. I was on a roll I even had the kitchen cleaned back up before the kids got out of bed. I decided the little fridge would make a great second fridge and I could just put it in the laundry room instead of taking out the front door and then putting it into the garage. I cleared a space in the laundry room and measured the door and the fridge. I measured twice because I always measure wrong and my husband says it's because I don't measure twice. But I measured twice this time and had 1/8 of an inch clearance on all sides. I cleared everything out of the way, lined the fridge up with the door and gave it a good push. It got about half way in and got stuck, really stuck. So I thought I can fix this before my husband gets home, he never has to know about this. The problem was that my children were awake by now and my lovely son thought it would be a good idea to take pictures, so now there is evidence.

Did I mention that it isn't easy to climb over the top of a fridge. I had to unwedge the fridge, take the door off the hinges and try again. It fit the second time with very little damage to the door frame. The upside is that we now have two fridges and I only have to go to the grocery store like every two or three weeks instead of two or three times a week like before. Oh, and I finlay came up with a good excuse to get rid of the laundry room door that it always in the way but my husband wouldn't let me take down.