Life lately

1. We attended a Minimalist Book Reading  - my idea, not Tyson's. We had dinner at Billy's Inn.
2. For Father's day we invited the Libberts and Bigler over for a BBQ. We had a blast and had great food.
3. I took the girls swimming at the Ashby's pool. I can't even describe how much we loved it. We have gone twice and plan to go lost more. Syndey and London have really really taken to the pool.
4. Tyson loves to make the "burrito girls"
5. We have gone to the Peter Pan park where we get an awesome splash pad - Awesome. Not so awesome is that Sydney always happens to need to poop during our afternoon play time and we end up going to the bathroom 4-5 times and she refuses to go because she is scared of the toilet and I'm trying to keep an eye on London - let's just say I want to pull my hair out. Gotta love the potty training.

Summer Update

Summer is here and although it felt like forever to actually get here - specially after a wet wet May. The heat is here. We are spending most of our afternoon's inside and try to go out after 6 pm and walk or go the park. The girls have been going to bed much later - which I love and hate at the same time.

The house is coming along. We hired a contractor to finish all the electrical and bathrooms. We ordered granite counters from a great deal we found in Craiglist. We are looking for colors and have been getting prices on what wood floors we want. We keep going back and forth on whether we want to do engineering wood floors or real wood floors. We also got the crazy idea that we should do an HGTV audition tape for a kitchen remodel - because there is no way we can do a kitchen anything after being over budget so much :)

Tyson has been feeling a lot of the stress lately. He applied for an internship and did not get it - bummer but at the same time I feel like the Lord knows the house is more important and we need to get that done first.

My parents are coming next week and we are soooo excited. They have  not seen the girls in over a year  and they have changed so much.

Everyone ask where we are with the house and honestly I feel like we are in the same place. I know we are making progress but everything feels so slow. At the same time I am aware that we are ridiculously blessed and the fact that we even have a house is a big blessing.

The girls are doing really well. School is great. We do splash days at Goddard and they love it. We are really loving water this summer. I even bought a little pool for the girls. We keep it at the green house and the girsl love to play there while we are working or doing yard work.

Random photos

Sunday before church

Bike riding with the burley 

Tyson sanding our master vanity

Tyson getting kicked out of his car after helping in stake conference - president Hickman drive him home. He has just been release from being the president after 10 years. He is a great man! 

Girls haircut

I had the girls cut 4 inches two weeks ago. Sister Lyndford did it. She was great. The girls hair is so much better and easier to manage. 

Yard update and swimming

Well after a month of non stop rain we finally got to our yard again. Tyson has been mowing it, trimming it and edging it. I have focusing on the weeds. Oh the weeds! Some as tall as Sydney. These photos do not do it justice. I spent about 5 hours pulling weeds and spraying weed killer. The worse are the thorns but I got taken care of by buying and wearing two pairs of gardening gloves. 

This past Saturday I took the girls swimming in the Ashbys pools. They were in heaven. It's been so amazing to see them older and just happy to be more independent. 

This weekend we have also sold several stuff on craigslist. This next two weeks will be big ones for the house - jerry is going full steam with the house. Hopefully this means I'm the next three weeks we can start painting.