Projects, cont.

Here is the garden installed and if you look careful you can see my peas, lettuce, and carrots. Basil, parsley, cilantro are coming up but not too fast.

This is the finished deck. We ate dinner out there last night. We LOVE it! It's bigger than my kitchen...

I am taking a cake decorating class at Michaels this month. I want to continue taking the rest of the classes but I will have to see how they will work with my school schedule over summer. And I am bummed that they will be on tuesday nights. Same as all of our Relief Society Activities. I am really enjoying it. Rodney is really enjoying the products of my classes. He keeps sneaking into the kitchen and getting the cake....good thing it was already cut into and not being given away!

I was in a hurry getting ready for class and I was running around trying to gather everything together. I look for Rodney and this is what I found. Apparently the frosting can't be that bad!

This is half-way through the deck. That door goes to one of our two sheds. Have I said how much I love living here?! Because I do. Julie, Scotts wife, even loves to babysit Rodney. B.O.N.U.S!

This is a little backwards but Mark has been working on a bookcase. We were going to use it in our bedroom but we decided that we would use it in Rodneys room for books because we are collecting more and more from the goodwills and don't have anywhere to put them. So we painted it to match the scheme...John Deere of course. What else would you expect!? I think it is beautiful. I love that he has a hobby now and I also love that I can get something out of his hobby! Selfish? Maybe, but I love it! He wants to build some adirondak chairs for the deck next. I like that idea too. We found this awesome blog off of my cousins blog called Knock off Wood that we love and I have a honey-do list for Mark. He knows it, AND he doesn't even mind because he enjoys it. Seriously best hobby ever!

They are working on the yard with our AWESOME landlord Scott. They are working on putting a sprinkler system in now that they have finished putting in the deck! Which you are getting a little bit of in the bottom of the picture. It is huge. 12 ft x 16 ft! We love it and have already put it to good use. Mark and Scott have been working in the yard on Monday, Tuesday, and a little on Wednesday. I even grabbed a shovel and put a little elbow grease in on wednesday.

I thought this picture was so cute of Mark and Rodney with their appropriate shovels. Working in the yard. I love my men!

Projects

We have had a break for two weeks from school so we filled it up with projects that we haven't had time to do during the semester. Project #1 was the garden. Mark built me a beautiful box so Wyatt would know that they weren't just more trees to pee on. He went above and beyond what I was expecting. We have found some great deals on used tools at garage sales and such and there was a great sale on a drill/saw combo at home depot that we scored. So mark has been putting them to great use!

Rodney loved helping with the garden and still thinks it is his sandbox...we are working on that.

This shows the handy-work of Mark he even water sealed it so it wouldn't rot.

This is before we installed the garden.

I put curtains up in Rodneys room. It's amazing the difference curtains from blankets makes. Before we got the curtains we had blankets hanging from the windows to block the light so he would still sleep. I love that we can open the curtains now and let some light in!

The other window. I haven't done a blog post of our cute house yet but here you get to see Rodney's room at least!

Things only a mom would get excited about...

1. Rodney learned how to blow his nose!!!
I think I almost jumped for joy! Mark looked at me like I was crazy.
2. Rodney blows kisses
3. Rodney now reminds us to pray for meals and before bed. He is the first one to fold his arms. Even before Mark and I get to sit down.
4. Rodney now knows to say please for help and food and drink. If I say the word "say" he knows to say please. His sign language vocabulary is blossoming! Please, thank you, help, more, eat, drink. He learned how to blow kisses which Mark says is gay...I say it's c.u.t.e.