New Tricks

Monday night we had the funniest FHE activity ever, at least it was funny for me to watch on the side lines. Like our own personal episode of America Funniest Home Videos. Andi has had a free pass to rollerama for months now and we finally took her to redeem it. The problem is that neither she or Sam have ever been on skates of any kind. And they were not exactly naturals once we strapped the roller blades on them. They fell so many times in the first few minutes I thought the activity would last all of ten minutes and they'd be tired of it. But they surprised me and we had to drag them away after a full hour. Thad spent the hour in the rink trying to teach them how to stay up, or gracefully catch themselves as they went down. Excuse the blurriness and weird lighting in the pictures, the roller rink is not a great place for pictures.

This is just a great action shot of them clinging for life to the walls.

 One of the moments of success.

So now they are both begging for roller blades, determined to learn how to skate.
Peter also learned a new trick this week. He's sitting up all by himself now, and really enjoys it.

We started a project Friday afternoon, and by Saturday evening this is what we had.

I've been staining the last two days while Thad has worked on the rest of the cuts and things that need to be done for the top layer. It should be done very soon, which really surprised me. I thought this Pergola would take us a lot longer to finish.
The kids love when we do projects, especially when Grandpa comes to help. Here are the kids "helping" hold the wood still while grandpa cuts.

I really liked that Grandpa came to help too because that meant Thad had someone else to help him lift those giant timbers. I like to help with projects, but this one was a bit much for me, so I helped by getting lunch and stuff :)