Sassy Sue Hair bow Party

I hosted a great hair bow party on Thursday. Jessica Lafiso (maiden name Benson) was in town and so I hosted a party while she was up. Her company http://www.sassysueclips.com/ is based out of Utah so I was excited to be able to host a party here. Her bows are adorable and all made by hand. All the girls had a lot of fun getting all dolled up. Check out the website, it is a favorite of mine.

Our Big Project

We finally bit the bullet and purchased a nice camper. This would be camper number three for us and we are hoping we have better luck with this one. The other two have been old junkers but they got the job done. This one will be camping luxory so we are excited to get out and use it. . . too bad the weather is still not cooperating! Well, since we bought this we had a project on our hands. We had to make a gravel pad on the side of our house in order to park it. You may think this will be fairly simple. Think again...

First you must dig up all the grass that was already there. (not too bad for me since Scott got to take on this project while I was at work but I did hear about it all day and I am well aware that it wasn't fun) Next you cover the dirt with black tarp in order to prevent the weeds. This should be simple as well, but when you have a 7, 5 and 2 year old as your helpers and the wind is also there to assist you it doesn't make this an easy task. Note the shovels and toys that are laid across it. Apparently the ground is still a little frozen because I could not get the stakes to go in the ground in order to keep the tarp down. Grrrrr....

Scott finally arrived with a load of gravel in one of Dad's dump trucks. Hooray, we will just dump it and smooth it out, we are finally on the tail end of the project. (I forgot to take photo's of the dump truck stage, oops). Lacey on cell phone: hey Dad how do you get the bed of the dump truck to raise? Dad: Just pull up the red and black levers, make sure the p.t.o. is running, let off clutch. Lacey: shouting all instructions to Scott. Truck: no thanks, don't feel like lifting this much today. Dad: Sorry, maybe it is to heavy, better start shoveling. Scott and Lacey: Grrrr!

2 1/2 hours later Scott and Lacey still shoveling, truck bed barely lifting. Dad calls: Do you need me to send your mother in to help shovel? Scott & Lacey: Nah we are getting pretty close. 3 hours later, bed raises a little but gravel not falling out...sticking to the bed of the truck not wanting to go anyway. Logan shows up. Hooorraaayyy! some help. 30 more minutes is finally dumps. Logan calls Dad: Dad, please bring the tractor in, there is no way we are smoothing or shoveling anymore. It is not going to happen. Please Dad, please. Dad: I will be there soon. Lacey and Scott: collapse with relief. Did I mention it is 4 o'clock at this point, Scott works at 5, I have 150 Enrichment invitations to make and I am also babysitting Rachel's kids at 4:30. Oh, and I hadn't made it to Porters to pick up the paper for the invites yet. No stress! Dad finally comes and saves the day. His tractor and handy scraper hooked on the back made this several hour project only take a few minutes. Thank you Dad, we really appreciated it! The hard working boys showing what it takes to make a gravel pad. This all occurred last Saturday but my muscles are just recovering enough to be able to blog this. Ouch! all the fund we had!