Sping Work, Soccer and Legos - of course!

Spring is most definitely here - yeah! The weather has been so much warmer the past week. A few days with rain, but good for growing nice green grass! Spring also brings a bunch of projects to work on. Last Saturday was cool, but sunny so we hauled a few trailer loads of black dirt to the backyard to fill in some low spots. The kids had fun helping; using their Gator and Tractor to haul dirt to the back and dump it.



And it's important to have your eyes well protected on a sunny day...


We've been thinking about getting Brendan a loft for his bedroom for a while now and came across a deal too good to pass up. Of course, a new bed means a new bedroom! Aiden has been wanting a 'bigger boy' type room since he's not a 'baby' anymore so we decided to switch their bedrooms. Aiden is moving into the 'car' painted room and Brendan wants us to paint legos on the walls of Aidens' old room. I'm not going to be painting legos on walls, but we are looking at ways to make it a cool, bigger boy room. We have the wallpaper from Aidens wall of baby jungle animals all down and are still deciding on paint colors. Here are the boys trying out the new loft right after we got it!


Tuesday night was Aidens' last soccer class. Brendan and I tagged along to cheer for him and take some photos. He did really well, all proud that he was in the spotlight ;) His favorite part of soccer is 'trapping' (stopping) the ball. He does it ALL the time!




A highlight of the night was taking a trip to Dairy Queen afterwards - a favorite for all of us!




Donna and Herb were out for a night last week on their way to Mayo and took us out to dinner. A real treat for me since I wasn't in the mood to cook ;) The boys lobbied and convinced us to go to Chilis - their new favorite restraunt. The boys were cute - trying out their big-boy manners and getting a lot of positive attention for them.

The same day, Brendan got his new Lego magazine in the mail with a building challenge in it... building something related to Spongebob - right up his alley! He and I started the legs and Herb and he did the bulk of the work designing and building the body. It turned our really cute and I'm going to send it in for the challenge.



Thursday was a dress-up day for school, Tacky Thursday. Brendan wasn't sure if he wanted to do it, but when he was going through his clothes he found the soccer socks from Aunt Stacey and thought they would be perfect. He added the shirt, some shorts and some crazy hair and he was ready to go.