Update on the Fam...

Hey all, hope your spring brings you good tidings...  We have been very busy here at the home front.  Last week we finally got the last part of our house insulated.  They fixed the over hang on the patio, so now we won't have anymore cold floors and the basement should be much cozier.  We could actually feel a breeze through the outlets downstairs.  So they reinsulated the cantilever over the patio and then insulated the ceiling in the play room.   Since that was done, it was time to sheet rock!  We HATE sheetrocking.  I finally started bribing the YM in our ward to come over and help hang sheet rock in return for sugar cookies and bagels.  It worked and now it is done, the ceiling that is.  Then we had fun putting up a few wall sheets too.  I will be so glad when this is all hung!

We have been able to see our yard for the last month or so, so it is time to start gardening.  The deer usually don't come until the middle of May, but they are back already.  A Kiddie pool blew into our yard and they have started using it as a drinking fountain.  We had 14 come through the day of this picture.

Morgan was asked to Prom, by the same guy that took her to sweethearts.  Tyler left this note and picture on our front step.  Morgan freaked out, screaming and saying how awesome this is etc.  Unbeknownst to her, Tyler was sitting across the street in his car watching.  Way to go Morgan!!!  She loves Lord of the Rings, so he played on that, where Tyler loves Star Trek.  So we made a play on that to respond to the invitation.  We went and got a flat sheet and pillow case.  She wrote on the pillow case "Dammit Jim, she said..."  And then on the sheet, she wrote in huge letters "YES!".  He was gone for the week-end, so we had his sister make his bed with the new linens.  Apparently it was a big hit at his house.  He should be getting his mission call, not this week, but next.  So he is a great kid and we are so appreciative of the respect that he shows to Morgan.

And finally, Sydney cut her hair.  We were at Ryan's baptism and one of Ryan's cousins had a cute chin length bob.  Sydney leans over and tells me how cute that hair cut is, and would it look good on her?  I said of course, so finally on Friday, the kids had a day off of school for end of term, so we took her in to get it cut.  They put her hair in a pony tail, so we could send it in to Locks of Love.  Then it was time to cut!  It turned out absolutely adorable!  All Friday and Saturday she kept telling me she loves her hair, feel how soft it is... etc.

Hope you all have a wonderful week.  We are looking forward to the women's conference this week-end.  Sydney and I get to go together.  Morgan will be gone for Choir Tour, but we will still have fun without her!