I love love love love love this family and am SO happy they came to visit us!

I love how well these two boys got on. We (they) played lots of games. These two. I love these two. I love their love for each other.  I miss them SO much. So very very much. I am grateful that we got to spend some time with our best friends.

I have had eight patio chars for over a year. With no place to put them. It's been very sad. This is why we poured a patio. And then because we are equally crazy we decided that the new patio needed a little something something before we could add a table and chairs. So painting happened.

And we (I) needed it to be fun (not easy). Diamond checker pattern sounded fun (not easy), so that is what we did. Two hours to tape the diamonds out, and only twenty minutes to paint. And we LOVE it. And then we (Jon) decided it wasn't fancy/colorful enough. So we brought home lots of color chips and played around for a bit deciding what we wanted. We have the paint and are just waiting for an opportunity (time is elusive for extras right now) to head back out there and finish up. Fingers crossed I will get to use this space for it's intened pourpose sometime this summer. Maybe……

We have been a little obsessed with cement projects around here. We decided that we would make some cement bricks for the children to paint. And that the new patio needed some color, some pattern, some fun. So Family home evening activities  for a couple of weeks were messy fun.

The saw was too loud for Regan so he watched Jon cut boards to make boxes from inside the house. He was excited when it was time to hammer the boxes together. Monday nights we have dance class, dinner, then family night. So Kaylee is in her dance clothes until bath/bed time. She was so cute hammering her box together, and them helping to mix the cement up in her dance clothes. You can never be too fancy while doing DIY projects. I love her dirty dance butt. She had fun hammering out air bubbles. Regan was over the activity at this point and inside watching a show. These two were so adorable making cement bricks.

The following Monday The children painted the brick while Jon and I started the paint job on the new patio.

If you look closely you can see the start of our painters tape fun. The children enjoyed watching us figure out how to lay out our pattern while playing and getting very dirty on the play set.