My next door neighbor was selling this playset and I thought it would be a great addition to our yard. It needs to be stained ~ a great project for this spring. I can hardly wait for grandchildren to come and play!
I love that it has a fort and picnic table and spot for a sandbox and a tic tac toe game and climbing wall and slide and there's also a baby swing and trapeze bar and it's BLUE! I tried out the swing myself ~ pretty fun!
The slide ends up in my garden spot. Oh darn! No garden this year. Well, I've been thinking of having a different sort of garden - like boxes that are waist-high so I don't have to bend over. Maybe that will be a new project. Meantime, I'm just going to plant grass seed where the old garden was. 
Thanks so much to the great and strong young men who helped take it apart and move it to our yard, which included taking out a section of the fence and putting it back.
Michael has been complaining that his shirts are shrinking in the dryer.
My first two reactions to this:
1. Stop working out so much and getting bigger
2. You can do your own laundry if it's going to be complicated.
But I resisted both and washed all his shirts in just Downey and then stretched them and hung them to dry. There were so many that they made the pole in the laundry room fall down, so I moved them to the banister. I couldn't resist putting them in rainbow order:
On Stacy Julian's (famous scrapbooker I learned about from Laura) blog today she suggested writing down 22 things learned from motherhood. She had her list and a video list from another blogger, but she thought it would be good to write your own list before reading theirs. So I did:
1. The sweet smell of a newborn.
2. The "terrible twos" will pass.
3. As will a son's eleventh year and a daughter's thirteenth year.
4. Hugs and kisses make so many things better.
5. There will ALWAYS be laundry.
6. Birthday celebrations last at least a week: family party, school party, friend party, etc.
7. Christmas is more fun with little children.
8. The joy of watching your husband bathe, tell stories and play with your children.
9. Bunk beds are overrated - way too hard to change the sheets.
10. That I would miss having a baby in my tummy.
11. That I would miss having a baby at my breast.
12. Talk less, listen more.
13. The best place to listen is in a car or lying in a dark room at bedtime.
14. To understand in a small way God's love for us, and to love His plan.
15. When you're in a hard stage it seems like eternity, but it really does go by fast.
16. Enjoy each stage of each child's life.
17. When you have PMS try not to cause any permanent damage.
18. The joy of the school schedule; it's so great when school gets out for the summer and so wonderful when it starts again.
19. Singing Primary songs at bedtime is my favorite.
20. It's always easier to do it yourself, but better to teach children how to do it.
21. Elementary School is the best, but you don't know it until you've had a child move on to Junior High.
22. It's the best job in the world and I'm so grateful that I got to have six little ones of my own and even though they're all grown up I still get to be their mother forever.
Today I removed an entire winter's worth of dog poop from our yard!
Not to be too graphic, but this mostly involved me crawling around the entire yard picking up poop with my gloved hand. I must really love this dog ~ yeah, I do really love her.
Tomorrow I'm going skiing for the last time :(
And then I'll start gardening
I had Sophie and Ayden at our house for a couple of days after the birth of Myla Jae. Here are some of the best quotes:
At the hospital when I took the kids to the nursery to see Myla Jae get her bath, Ayden was confused:
"But where are the toys and children, like the nursery at Church?"
Several times while Sophie was at our house when there was a decision to be made she would say:
"I'm the guest, so I get to choose. Nana, I don't live here, so I'm the guest!"
Sophie got a little scratch on her leg and said while showing me:
"Nana, isn't this the best owie you never saw?"
Aunt Jenny
Uncle Mike
I slept in until a little after 8.
I completed two Personal Progress value experiences for my Sacred Grove time.
I spent 4 1/2 hours painting the new guest room purple. I really do like painting and the color turned out great. I will post pictures when I finish the room tomorrow.
I went skiing for an hour and three miles. It was a little disappointing because even though we had six new inches at home, Sundance Nordic center did NOT. The snow was the consistency of a slurpee, but the sun was shining and it was BEAUTIFUL. (pictures below taken with my iphone)
I got nice messages from four nice friends on facebook that made me happy. Thank you Barbara, Christine, Courtney and Ryan!
I got dressed up and went with my dear husband to the wedding reception of one of our missionaries and then out to dinner.
Seriously, it doesn't get much better than that!
It's all good!
You can't see it well, but somebody "snowshoed" a heart in the snow in the middle of the meadow. So cute and fun!
I love the sun shining through the trees
and me!
Now that is a BLUE sky
In 2 Nephi 2:2 Lehi calls Jacob "my firstborn in the wilderness." Laura was born while we were in law school and living at married student housing ~ Wymount Terrace. It's just a play on words ~ "my firstborn in the Wymount."
It's silly.
