Dad has a new best friend. He sits down and Miss Kitty is up in his lap asking for some loving. He lays down for a nap and she comes and joins him. He says she keeps his feet warm. They had a good two hour nap on Sunday. They both enjoyed it very much. I want you to notice the pretty princess blanket Dad is using. Doesn't it fit his masculine body? 

Married life has done wonders for Candice. She has really matured and became so dignified. Really Mickayla was taking pictures of everyone. I deleted my picture really fast. I am sorry Candice, but I couldn't help it. 

Blake build this car out of Pepsi cans. A friend of his asked for a car for her birthday. So Blake is making her one. I think she meant a real car though! Why Blake chose Pepsi I don't know. Only Dad and Reed like Pepsi. He was always begging someone to drink a pepsi. He even tried to drink one himself but he decided it wasn't worth the sacrific!!! He would rather dump it then drink it. 

This is the car that Blake finsihed. Not bad is is? 

Mickayla wanted a tea party. So she brought her little tea set out and gave everyone a cup. This may be a new Sunday tradition. 

This is what happens when Grandma watches William. He had a great time wearing his cookie! 

I got this picture out of order. It goes after the next one. Sorry. This going backwards is difficult for me at times.
Dad gave Reed instructions not to let go of the ladder even if a branch comes down on him. It wasn't a minute later when a branch came down towards him. He let go of the ladder and ran. It was just an automatic reaction. It was really funny. Thank goodness, Blake was holding firm to a branch and the ladder stayed put. You do need to understand, these were not little branches. They are the size of a far size tree.

We are still working on getting the yard cleaned up. We have a lot to do. The boys and Dad worked on taking out some of the tree limbs so there will be more sun light in the yard. Blake was the first up the ladder. He sawed away and took out several branches. Reed was his not so loyal ladder holder. 

Reed was the second to cut off limbs. He had a little more of a challenge. They couldn't put the ladder so he had a good hand hold with his right hand. That meant that he needed to hold on to the limb he was cutting with his left until right before he was all the way through and then switching to his right hand to cut with. He did a good job though. Blake held on to the ladder great. One of the large limbs that Reed cut came right down on Blake but he held onto the ladder and let the limb hit him. I don't know if that was obiedient, loyal, brave or stupid. We will go with brave. 

Dad did the clean up cuts on the tree after the boys cut down the main branches. We have some good light in that portion of the yard now. I hope the grass and apples trees do better now. 

Mickayla wanted a flower garden. So Blake and I bricked the border and then I took her shopping for plants to plant in her garden. You can't see it well but she has a lot of beautiful flowers. She didn't last long planting the plants. Erin, Reed, Blake and I finished it after she was done. It only took a few minutes before she was board and wanted to play. OH to be young again. 

This is the new grass Brett got us and all the plants that we planted this week. The front plants will grow to about 3 feet at the most. The plants by the back fence will grow to 6 feet. You can hardly see them right now. 

This is a little out of order but this is what the yard looks like now. The rest of the story is below. 

Reed had an exciting spring break. It ended up involving all of us. He worked on his senior project. The project involved researching out plants that grow well in shade and landscaping our yard. Brett was able to get a palete of grass for us free so Reed rotatiled up the ground and he and I layed it down. Then we spent the rest of the week buying and planting plants. It was a busy week but everything looks beautiful. 

Reed and I spent between conference sessions laying sod. 

Reed did a water color plan of where all the plants would go. 

Reed, Blake, Erin, Mickayla and I worked hard planting plants for two days. 

Even Will got into the project. 

When ever William gets fussy this is what he wants. He loves being upside down!!!!  

We moved everyone around when Erin and Brett moved in. Blake moved back to the "cold" room, Reed moved upstairs to his old room and Erin and Brett took the downstairs room. The room Reed was taking needed to be painted badly. He took the "blue room". Dad took down the dolphin border and then Erin and Reed painted it. They painted the room light tan with a dark green accent wall. As you can see they had a lot of fun doing it. Erin looked rather funny. She had a pair of my jeans on. I don't know how she kept them up. Brett and I finished up the job by putting on the second coat. The room looks rather nice. 

The family at Grandma's after the wedding. We sure filled the house, but it was sure fun. 

This is the family at the Wrestling awards banquet. Everyone close by came to support the boys. It was great. It was a very long evening, but nice. 

Blake received an award at the wrestling banquet. He was one or two wrestlers to receive an acedemic award. Good for Blake, bad for our wrestling team. Blake also received a certificate so he could letter in wrestling. (Of course he already had the letterman jacket with his letter sewn on. It is good he really did letter. He was excited to wear the jacket the next day!) 

Reed recieving one of his many awards at the Wrestling Awards night. 

Reed is receiving one of his awards at the Wrestling Banquet. He received four awards. 1. The Most Major Decisions. 2. The Most Technical Falls. 3. The Most take downs 4. This was the Most impressive. He got the coaches award for being a great wrestler in both character and wrestling. We were very proud of him. He got this award in both Wrestling and Football.