Switching Rooms

So we've been switching around bedrooms the past few days. We started this project on Monday, when we probably should have been enjoying the last few moments we had with Joseph and Eliza. But I guess they were busy organizing stuff and loading the car up, so maybe it is ok. Sophi and Natalie saying goodbye to the small room with it's small closet.

Peter saying goodbye to the big room where there was room for all his toys and project. 

We're on our third day in and Sophi and Natalie's room looks good and is basically done. The boys' room is a bit messy still. We need to reduce their possessions to make them fit in the smaller quarters. Daniel doesn't want to help us. 

This is his "ugghhh I'm tired..." pose. He doesn't want to practice music either. He doesn't want to do anything except try to not do the stuff we want him to do.

Corey and I went on a ride yesterday morning, and just so happened to be going up to Ann's at the same time as our high school friend Mike! He and Corey were in the same church ward growing up too, so they had fun catching up. 

We rode with them up to Potato Hill then across Ann's to Rush, then he went down Rush with his Alta High biking team and we were behind their group. We said bye at the bottom of Rush. It was fun to see him! When we got home, Owen and Natalie were both awake and working in the backyard raking. Wow!

Natalie want to plant grass under the pine trees. She's got a backyard vision that she wants to have happen for her birthday party in July. I'm not being very helpful in supporting her dream, but I guess she can try to make it happen. (I don't think grass will grow back there. We can't even get grass to keep growing where it is supposed to be.) But our summer roses are looking beautiful!!

I wish rose season lasted longer. Roses are in bloom everywhere though, they are beautiful. And other things going on the past two days - Katharine was working on her cup stacking skills...

Kids were playing with costumes in the basement, and left them ALL over. This was Daniel. 

I told him to go pick them up, and he did. Good job Daniel. Peter was in the basement today working on a Duplo Lego zoo/amusement park. He was very proud of it and gave me a full tour. This is the view from the entrance. 

We talked to Abi tonight! She's doing well in Brazil. She is treated like a celebrity at the school she is going to. It sounded fun, and familiar to her brothers, who had that same "Justin Beiber" status when they went to school in Chile. They told her to enjoy it while it lasts, cause when she comes back she'll be just a regular person again. Ethan took this pic of Abi being weird before she said bye to us.

Ethan is doing well and adjusting to being a new father. Hyrum's 'stache looks pretty sweet. We call him Mario, cause he looks like super Mario. Ethan's jealous of H's facial hair. And that's about it for what's going on here.