spring break (more like spring WORK!)

This past week mostly consisted of yard work. I laugh that I was thinking we'd get everything done this week including planting a garden--not quite. BUT, we did get a lot done including rock in the backyard and 70% of the front. We worked hard from about 7am until 3pm on Saturday moving rock (until we couldn't move anymore) and probably have just two of the 10 tons left maybe? We moved dirt back into the garden box area as well and fixed more drip lines, etc. We were a little bit sore on Sunday, but not too bad.

I felt some guilt on Saturday night that we had worked all day and didn't do anything fun with the kids or for St. Patrick's Day, so I whipped up some 'green' cupcakes while Rob took the kids to the store. My allergies have been HORRIBLE for the past two weeks. I was really quite sick on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I didn't get much done on those days which set us back a bit. I was struggling quite a bit emotionally as well, and maybe I'll write more about this another time, but not today. I'm doing really well right now, so I'm grateful for that.

We had a huge rain/thunder/hail storm on Sunday which was so nice. It rained for quite a bit which was great timing for our yard. I took some photos of the yard on Sunday afternoon. The first from our balcony:

This next one was during the rain storm on Sunday. We were noticing that the sun was finally peeking out a bit after it rained all day and then we stepped out to find an ENORMOUS rainbow that we could see from our back yard and also from the front:

This back corner is where a garden box will be-- picture taken from far away as it was raining hard:

This is totally random, but I forgot to post this picture that one of the primary kids gave to me during sharing time last week. He drew this during my sacrament meeting talk. It says, "repentance is a good thing." I thought is was so cute and at least someone was listening :)

The cabinet guy made it back to put on the pulls to our drawers. They make such a huge difference! Big improvement:

I pulled out the camera before church and took a few shots of the kids (seems like I haven't done that in a while). Liv was watching the rain and looked so cute:

This next one is just about my favorite photo ever right now. It's so 'Liv' isn't it?

Back to her favorite pose of late:

I see you...

A more serious side of Tosh...

...then his dad walked in the room and got Tosh laughing about something or other.

Not lacking in personality I would say:

Hewitt is never very shy with the camera. He was looking and feeling dapper in his church coat:

Love those cute freckles on his nose:

Fast forward several hours... I made sure to grab a couple shots of Burke after church.

(He collided with a buddy while shooting hoops this week which broke his favorite frames and left a small cut/bruise over his left eye. Probably not the first set of broken glasses we'll encounter...)

Rob left very early for California this morning. The kids and I had a good day today (chores, shopping, reading, etc.), and are off to the zoo tomorrow. I want to make the most of the final week of spring break and the cooler weather. Have a great week!