Saturday, May 31, 2008

Wouldn't you know it the one nice day of weather we have had in a while and I was to busy to spend the time I would have liked to work outside in the yard. I split a shift with a lady and we take turns working Saturdays in the Rexburg Temple. It worked out that I had four Saturdays off while she worked. Now I am in the middle of working four Saturdays while she spends time with family. I work in the office answering phones. I LOVE IT! Bryon stayed home with the kids cleaning the house and cracking the whip on having them get their chores done. Bryon has become really good at getting Saturday mornings organized with assigned jobs and then having them each draw for some jobs. Conner really wanted the "wash dishes" job. This morning before I left, he begged me to make up the jobs and put that one on top and then he would draw first and draw that one. When he got it, he was going to say, "It's a miracle! I can read! I got dishes. Whoo Oooh!" What a crack up that boy is. I am not sure what happened with the jobs because I had to leave before they got going. All I know, is the house was in pretty good shape when I got home. However, Bryon said Conner had earned an extra job for not following the rules today. He ran off again on his bike. The summer is still young and I can't even begin to count how many times we have taken his bike away already! I got home from the temple about 1:00 p.m. I grabbed a bite to eat and then had to go to a funeral. I teach piano lessons and four of my students grandma passed away from cancer. The grandchildren were doing various musical numbers and I was the accompanist. They all did really well. When I got home, we started working in the yard. Bryon went and bought some edging and he worked putting the edging in around a little rock garden we have been working on for a year now. We finally have it weeded, the black tarp down, the plants planted, and the rocks in so that should be one flower bed that will be lower maintenance for us. We also have an island flower bed that I wanted to put trim around so I can plant the flowers I bought a week ago. We got the trim put around it and I worked on weeding and shaking the dirt of big clumps of grass. That was about all we were able to get done before it was time to come in and eat and get the kids bathed for church tomorrow. I was a little disappointed that we weren't able to get that flower bed ready to plant my flowers. We are hoping Monday night to get that flower bed done and start on planting our garden. However, our rock garden looks awesome. I couldn't help but snap a few pictures of the finished project.