Memorial Day weekend - lots of work done!

I am the R.S. VT Co-ordinator in our ward. I spent two days putting this magnetic board together. Now I can see all the routes and makes changes and visually see the results.

Saturday morning Dad and I painted the outside of the gate, fence and side fence. We did it in

1-1/2 hours! Now it is finished! Yahoo! We stained the inside of the fence a month ago. It's rained so much we finally had a week of sun and got the outside done!

I put these stepping stone (blocks) in a month ago. When we got done with staining the fence, I spent 1 hour and 'pulled' out all the grass that was sticking out of the picket fence along the bottom!

This is my 'first' official rose in bloom at our new home! I planted 4 rose bushes and I love them! I put in two yellow bushes and two different pink bushes.
A month ago I put in the scalloped brick to keep the gravel and grass separate. Behind that utility box I dug up a bush. See below in the bucket. Poor planning on the guys that put in the landscaping. They put in right behind the utility box, hard to open those doors, plus it was right next to the driveway. I had to pull up just past it to get the door open and not step into the bush!

This is the bush I dug up.

We had quite a busy weekend holiday and got a lot accomplished!

Stained the rest of our fence.

Dug out grass in the picket fence.

Dug out a bush.

Sprayed Round-up on a few dandelions.

Mom dug 3 holes for my friend down the street to plant her 3 plants. The ground has plenty of rock and not much dirt. The holes were a foot deep. She is going to have hip surgery soon.

Dad mowed all the grass. It takes him 1 hour to mow both front and backyard!

Dad cleaned and straightened up his shed and garage.

Mom made her VT Board.

Finished! :o)

Kirsten . . . A future little Monet?

Kirsten's class did this really cute project. They made blossoming trees! It was a 3-day project.

Day 1- Paint the 8x10 board

Day 2- Paint the tree on the painted background

Day 3- Make blossoms and glue onto the tree

Add a mat background and glue painting onto mat.

Make a simple poem about Spring and tape onto mat.

In case you can't read the poem, it says...

Spring is like

Little girls.

Sugar and spice

And everything nice

Then hand over hand I had Kirsten write her name to autograph her painting. I absolutely love it!

Kirsten's tutor and I worked with Kirsten here a home on this art project. Kirsten hates anything on her hands; she's OCD about that! She didn't want to paint with the brush, so I had her put her fingers 'in' the paint and we moved her fingers about on the board. I loved the texture and it turned out cute. The picture I took didn't do it justice. What can I say, I am not a good photographer. Someday I'll work on that talent.

The blossoms can be made by shredding small pieces of tissue paper and rolling them up. I chose the hard way. I cute 1-inch squares of tissue paper, 2 layers at a time, and trimmed off the corners and twisted them into blooms. I made about 150 blooms! It took 2 hours! It was worth it! We put the glue on the painting and would lay the blooms down and have Kirsten 'press' the blooms on with her fingers. As soon as the glue got on her fingers, she recoiled! It was fun doing this with her. We had her look at different colors and had her chose her mat background. She needed a little help. When the picture was put together and finished we showed her and she seemed very pleased with her work! I need to find a picture frame that will allow for the blooms and not smash them.

Ice cream anyone? ... also books and Kirsten! :o)

This is Tillamook Chocolate Mudslide ice cream. It is really good! The ice cream is so smooth. The chocolate chunk is okay, kind of grainy. However this is the 'BIG CHUNK' that I dug out of the ice cream! They are usually small chunks. This one would fill an eight ounce cup!



I cut up that chunk into smaller pieces and it filled the lid!

Kirsten has been curious about some of her other books. It was so much fun watching her 'surprised smile' each time she would open the book and something would pop out! She played with this book for half an hour!

I was trying to get her to look up and 'smile' for me. She was too interested in her 'pop up' book rather than smile for me!