memorial day

We had a great memorial day weekend! Saturday we spent most the day doing yard work. We laid down weed guard and put in new bark between the fence and curbing.  We were beat so we just ordered in food and spent the evening at home. 

Sunday was a huge milestone, Eleanor stayed in nursery the entire time! The trick was having Lori drop her off with Evan. I do the nursery singing time and would take her with me before she was old enough for nursery. By the time she was actually in nursery she was used to be being in with her.  I get the biggest kick out of watching her sitting on her little chair participating in nursery. She doesn't really sing, but she's got a lot of the hand actions down. I think her new favorite is Book of Mormon Stories.  

Sunday evening we had Jay and Scott over for a BBQ.  It was such nice weather and Eleanor, Zack and Bear had a blast playing out in the yard. Eleanor loved chasing Bear and Zack to give them hugs and kisses. I don't think either really enjoyed it! After the BBQ we went over to Jay and Scott's to get some Johnny-Jump-Ups starters for our flower garden. While we were over Zack took Eleanor on a long ride in his little motorized truck. It was hilarious, it was like they were on this little date! On the way home Sara called and said they had a lay over in SLC and because Jeff's back was hurting they were able to change their tickets for the next day at 3pm.

Monday morning we met up with Sara, Dick, Jeff, Elyse, Dick, Janet and Kara and her kids at Ruth's Diner. It was raining all morning and was so beautiful in the canyon. It was fun getting to see all of them and it was a great excuse to go to Ruth's. We LOVE Ruth's!!! After breakfast we stopped by Westside Nursery to pick up some more creeping thyme for our walkway. We were going to try and build our pergola over the weekend, but the rainy weather didn't allow us.  The weather warmed up a bit and we were able to have another BBQ with Scott, Michelle, Jay, Scot and Lori and Ryan. I made my famous beer-batter fries (i don't really think they are famous, they just take forever so I'm going to claim they are famous!) and everyone else brought some great food!! Of course we had to end the night playing a little game of ticket to ride. So there you have it!!