Summer Projects

I can't believe it has already been a month since I have posted anything on here. The last month of summer has just flown by, so now that I have a minute I am going to fill everyone in on what's been going on in the last month. First off, we had Eric and Liz's baby blessing at the first of August and the family: Mike, Nana, Natalie, Amber, and of course, baby Jeriah, came down and hung out at our house for a week. It was tons of fun. Amber posted a ton of pictures on her facebook page of all the activities that happened. (Amber, I still need to get those 4th of July pictures of Addison feeding the chickens the watermelon rhines from you and Dad.) While Mike and Mom were down here Mike changed the hose facet on the front of house. It use to be underneath our living room window where the sidewalk was and it was really annoying to have the hoses running across the sidewalk. So while Mike was here he filled up our old facet and installed a new one on the other side of the house. It looks really nice now. Mike also took out an old weed tree that had grow up around our gas pipe and that looks great too. I tried taking out before but was too scared that I would break the pipe. Thanks Mike for all the help and work you did while at our house. We appreciate it. Mom also helped us get our weedy garden under control and helped get more weed trees out from behind the shed. Also, while the family was down Mich sold his motorcycle and we bought some bricks to edge the pine trees that we have been wanting to do for a few years now but have just never had the money. We actually ended up doing a lot of projects while Mom and Mike were down. And just this week we got our redwood pole installed with our hanging flower basket on it. We put a solar light on top of it and it looks really nice. Thanks again Mom and Mike for all the help you did while you were down.

Another thing that has been going on in my life is that I decided to learn how to crochet. I had tried learning growing up but could never quite figure it out, so when Aunt Mary came and dropped off all of her sewing books that she didn't want anymore I decided to learn how to crochet. Mom found me some books on how to help me learn and a book on making rag rugs, which I had been wanting to make. I decided to start out with something simple, so I picked a hot pad pattern and have been working on it a little each night. I had to check out a few books at the library to help me but I am definitely starting to figure it out. All right, I think I've said enough so it's time to go. Everyone enjoy the rest of their summer vacation.