Happy President's Day!

We love it when Daddy and Tanner have the day off!  What a fun day we had!

Dave has all these great plans for our back yard, and he now has Spring Fever.  He wants to fix and stain our fence, move sprinklers, plan trees, build a shed, extend our patio, build a pergola, and make a sandbox and grow boxes.  Today we worked together as a family and made grow boxes for our garden this year.  The boys helped measure and draw the cut lines, and then daddy and wimpy mommy screwed them together.   

Then we cut the wood to make a sand box.  We had 2 pieces of non-pretreated wood, so the boys painted them with weatherproofer.  They also painted the tips of their shoes, the legs of their pants, and other random places.  While they painted, mom wiped off things that shouldn't be painted.

For lunch we went to Eatza Pizza - a pizza buffet in Pasco.  Dave says that there must be some unwritten law that pizza buffets can only have mediocre pizza.  But, it was on $1.99 each kid and then we did arcade games afterward. It was the experience that counts!

With the latest excercize craze at our house we decided to get new running shoes, and since Big 5 was having a big sale we headed there.  They don't carry kid shoes, so just Mom and Dad got shoes.  We'll see if we can find some new basketball/soccer shoes for Tanner somewhere else.  Maybe they will help him run faster!

Then home for a nap for Brady, and Tanner and Colty and I went to see our friend's new baby.  He was 5 weeks early and is now 5 lbs.  He is so tiny.  I told the boys on the way there that they need to wash their hands as soon as we got there before they touched him.  I was telling them he was so tiny, and Tanner said, "yeah, but I bet he has a big head."  I said, "no, it is so little."  And Tanner said, "I bet as tiny as a germ."  When we got there and they saw him Colt said, "Woah, he is a lot littler than I thought."  He really is so small.  His ear is the size of a quarter.  It was fun to sit and hold the baby while the kids played.  I just can't get over how little he is though.

Then our friends Somer and Caleb came over for tacos and FHE.  Dave gave a lesson on what President's Day is and gave an interesting facts quiz on Lincoln and Washington.  It was fun to get to know about them more.  Tanner learned about them in school, so he knew a lot of the answers.  Did you know that Washington only had 1 tooth of his own, the rest were made from human, cow, and hippo?  Did you know that Lincoln was the tallest president at 6 feet 4 inches?  Then we made stovetop hats.

What a fun day!!