A Productive Weekend

I can't tell you how much I love having Ryan home every other Friday. I think the only thing better would be to have Spencer's set up and get EVERY Friday off. I love it though and this weekend we were able to get SO much done!




First off, Friday morning was Rylee's Field Day at school. It was so fun to watch her play volleyball, do yoga, dance, play soccer and lacrosse. She did phenomenally well with soccer and lacrosse. We were so impressed to see her get right in there with her lacrosse stick and actually caught the ball when the high school helper threw it back in. She is looking forward to her soccer training next month. I wished I would have taken video of KC dancing with Rylee's class. It was hilarious. She tried so hard to keep up and watching her follow the steps was awesome! A lot of the parents got a kick out of her. KC has already mentioned she doesn't want to play any sports, just dance. She was so cute!




In anticipation for Micki and Spencer's visit next weekend, we've been hanging drywall in the basement getting the room prepared for them. We had moved a wall in the Fall and so it has just been waiting to be drywalled, along with the ceiling. After receiving my delicious breakfast in bed on Saturday, we got ready to attend a baptism of a daughter of our friends in the ward and enjoyed a lovely lunch at their home afterwards. When we came back home, we changed our clothes and headed over to Home Depot to pick up some more sheets of drywall. When we came back home, I helped Ryan carry in 3 of the 8 sheets and figured it wasn't worth the strain on my body to get them downstairs, so Ryan being a champ carried the 5 remaining sheets in and downstairs (separately of course - those things are beasts!) We hung drywall the rest of the afternoon and completed the room! YAY!! I haven't posted much of our home improvements, but here are some pictures of the room downstairs. It's hard to see without a wide lens, but where you see that dark line on the floor, that was where the funky wall was before. We moved it over to make the room square and frame the window that is right at the bottom of the stairs when you go through the door. We still need to finish mudding and start taping, put the door back on, and finish tearing the wall paper off, texture and paint, but I can't wait for the end result! Stay tuned.

We really want this room to be complete, so I started looking on craigslist for a queen bed for our guests (and then for KC and Rylee). I came across a king size bed for $50 and decided to go for that one for Ryan and I and then move our queen downstairs. Well, we couldn't go pick it up until after 9:30pm Saturday night, so with sleeping children in the van and Ryan in his dad's truck we went to go pick up the bed. Ryan was a champ again and carried in not only the frame and box springs, but this king sized mattress all by himself. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen as I didn't know that these mattresses were so flimsy. What would I do without such a tough husband?! After we got the bed home I realized that although this bed was a smashing deal, I would have to buy sheets and a new comforter and make a new headboard. So much for my smashing deal. It's all good though.

Sunday was fabulous! I love Mother's Day. I'm so grateful to be a mom and to have such wonderful examples of not only my mom and mother in law, but of my sisters and sisters in law. You guys are the best! My kids got me a new comfy, pretty pink robe and Ryan bought me The Host. It was such a wonderful day finished off with a delicious dinner (and company) at the Hunts. Sorry, no pics. (No pics of me six months into a pregnancy and for about 6 mos after. Trust me, it's just better that way.)