Busy at Home

This has been an insanely busy week!  Dan had Monday and Tuesday off, and he spent them building our new chicken coop for the chickens who are big enough and well and ready to be in more spacious living quarters.  He got most of it done Monday and Tuesday, then finished it up on Saturday and in the evenings.  The chickens are now happily settled in.

Monday was the usual laundry, babysitting Payton, grocery shopping, school for the kids and practicing and homework and such after school.  We had a fun little family home evening together and had s'mores around the campfire.

Tuesday was Preschool here - James loves his preschool friends and we all had a fun time learning and playing.  Then after, Payton was over again in the afternoon, finally an afternoon of homework, piano practicing, and helping daddy outside.

Wednesday was late start for the school kids, then James and I picked up Tayanna and Nicole and headed to the library.  After a fun morning where James played on the computer at the library the whole time we were there.... we headed home for lunch.  In the evening, I had a girls camp activity, Dan had Young Men's Eileen and Anna had Activity Days, Aaron had cub scounts and James and Evie came and played pretend victims while I taught girls camp first aid certification stuff.  They both had fun showing off and being center of attention.  :)  James of course loved flirting with the girls...

Thursday was another fun day of preschool and Payton coming over to play.  We made a quick trip to give our friends daughter a quick ride to a dentist appointment then dropped her off with time to go pick up the kids from school.  The kids had piano lessons, I mowed the lawn and then after getting the kids to bed Dan got me some weed and feed which I put on the lawn to hopefully get rid of the dandelions.

Friday we had Adeline over to play and we went to get my allergy shot, then went home for lunch and play until we picked the kids up from school.  The afternoon was the usual homework and piano practicing, then we did a quick dinner of hot dogs around the campfire.  Dan went to go play D&D with friends and i made cupcakes for the kids while they cleaned up and watched a movie.

Saturday was full of yard work.  Finishing the chicken coop - Tina came and picked up her chickens and so we are now down to our own 6 chickens.  And we planted a peach tree in our yard.  After a long day, we had dinner and headed to bed.

Today was church which was awesome as usual - we have a really great ward.  Ward choir was great - after, we played games and played outside and rested.

I was awful about taking pictures this week.... I will do better next week... probably....