Car Bed

Today’s project was rearranging the boys room. Bringing the living room tables in last night made me so excited to bring in more of what we are going to keep that I decided the car bed was coming in next. I couldn’t just place it in the empty corner of the boys room though. It would fit there, but that’s where the vent for the room is…in the floor. So I had to have the boys clean their messy room and I moved the bunk bed to the corner with the vent and the crib came around to the other side of the room. At least the bunk bed is raised up off the ground and air would be able to flow, the car bed sits directly on the floor. Then I went out into the garage and like the macho mamma that I am, I lifted that huge car bed over the other boxes and stuff out there and brought it into the house. Once in the house I could just push it down the hall and put it in place. Adam was very curious about what was going on:

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After I got all the dust wiped off, I brought in the piece of plywood that supports the mattress, and the mattress, and we got the bed all made up. Adam really likes it.

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We won’t use it for him to sleep on regularly just yet. We’ll let him just get used to having it in there before transitioning him into it, but so far he likes it!

My Little Handyman

While I was at the cookie warehouse yesterday, Kyle took the kids to the home depot workshop. I guess they got there right before noon and so they just brought the project kits home and some of the kids were working on putting them together today. Even Adam was trying to use the tools.

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By the way, these are so far the WORST projects that Home Depot has had for the kids. They are supposed to be the Trojan horse from the Mr Peabody and Sherman movie. They are on wheels and being left on the table they end up rolling off and losing a leg, or it’s head. Not a very sturdy project.

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Going to Grandpa’s House

We were supposed to leave last night to go to Grandpa’s house, but after scouts, and the chaos of packing and loading the van (while Kyle was on the phone working out details for a job back at Symantec) we decided to try to get some sleep and leave in the morning instead. We woke the kids up pretty early and Adam was very excited to wear his backpack to go bye bye.

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Before we could actually leave town though, we had to stop off and pick up Debby and Rexton. Jeff couldn’t get the time off to make the trip, and Debby didn’t really want to go alone with the baby so she decided to come along with us.

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A couple of hours down the road, someone asked about Chewy. I thought Kyle had brought him to the car, but I guess Kyle didn’t see him anywhere while we were getting loaded up this morning, so he thought maybe a kid to him to the car. But after questioning the kids it turns out that Chewy didn’t make it to the car at all. We were so far away already that it would have been foolish to turn around to go get him, so since we left Jeff with the key and instructions for feeding Jango and the cat, we had to let him know that Chewy got left behind and was there as well.

We made several stops on our way to Grandpa’s house to give the kids time to wiggle and stretch their legs. We even got to drive through the Virgin River Gorge during the day time! That hasn’t happened in a long time. We usually leave so late that the sun goes down before we get to that stretch of the drive, or we are driving through the night to begin with.

By the way, here is a pretty rock I took a picture of while we were passing by.

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