An uneventful week, but still fun!!! :)

This has been a bit of a crazy, fast, yet somewhat uneventful week for us. Brian's good friend from high school, Cody has been staying with us all week. He lives in Mattawa, WA with his wife and two munchkins. He has been taking some classes for his job (teacher) in Vancouver, so it's been fun having him here in the evenings. Jack has LOVED having him here. He will be sad to see Cody go, however, I think Cody's cuties will be happy to have their Daddy home!

We, again, have spent a week with a lot of outside time. I have been working in the front and backyards. The front is somewhat acceptable looking at this point, however the back is in need of a more than a little TLC. So, Jack has been a great helper with his little gardening gloves and tools helping me clean out the garden beds, so hopefully next year we can have some type of garden.
He is very interested in digging, raking, and finding rocks. However, at times this interferes with the work I have done; ie. when I finally have a clean spot, and a big pile of rocks/dirt/pinecones end up in it :)
He is also a HUGE fan of watering all of the flowers, bushes, etc. He's gotten pretty good at it, however once in a while he'll get a wild streak, and you gotta watch out. I think Buster has gotten a good spray, as has Maggie and myself... not sure if he's made it to Brian yet... I'm sure his time is coming. :)

Brian's parents are here this weekend. We absolutely love having them here. They are such a help with the kids, and they love every minute they spend with Jack & Maggie. And, of course, Jack and Maggie just can't get enough of them. It's always a hard and sad good-bye when they have to head home.
It's been a difficult adjustment to go from seeing them almost every weekend, to only about 1x p/month. We miss them tremendously! We are always eager when they can come visit us, or when we are able to come and visit them.
Unfortunately, Miss Maggs has let us all know how much she dislikes riding in the car, by screaming... and I mean, SCREAMING! And, then Jack starts the competetion of who can scream louder, to say the least... long car rides are not in our future any time soon, until we can get her little "issue" under control!

Maggie is showing us she is really ready to walk! She is FINALLY crawling, like normal, rather than her silly military crawl. She is also, pulling herself up onto things, and today after her nap, we found her in her crib standing up, holding on to the railing jumping up and down! HA! Time to lower that mattress!!!
She is full of happiness, and is so fun to watch. She is so smiley and just an overall happy lil' lady... but, also VERY determined. She gets where she wants, gets what she wants, and if her brother doesn't agree, she does try to put up a fight at times... although she usually loses :(. But, she'll be catching up to him soon enough!

We're looking forward to another fun, and hopefully nice weather filled week!

Hope you all do as well!
Hugs from us all!
xoxo