Our Family – Page 11 – Andelin Adventures

Spa Party

For Girl Scouts we had a spa party tonight. We had the girls help each other put mud masks on, and then we did their nails before they washed the mud off their faces. Chloe looks like she wasn’t too sure what to think about the mud mask.

Stylists

Dinah, Chloe and sometimes Lydia, have taken a fancy to doing my hair. It is kind of a weakness of mine, and they may have figured that out. I enjoy having my hair played with, and so when they are doing my hair, it’s harder for me to put my foot down and insist that they go to bed, or clean their room (for example). Not to mention that when they are playing with my hair, its wiser not to move or get up because then they would end up pulling my hair and that would be painful. So I usually just let them. Here are some pictures of the better hair styles they have come up with:

Park

I took the kids to the park this morning for some outside play time. I was planning on taking Seth on the swings to see how he likes it, but he fell asleep before we got there.

I still let the kids play for a bit before walking back home. Adam ended up getting bored trying to ride his trike home so I asked Ethan to carry it while he walked Chewy. Instead he gave Chewy a ride.

Court of Honor

Ethan received three more merit badges at the court of honor tonight. He received Reading, Wilderness Survival, and Cooking. I was expecting him to be getting three, but I was not expecting cooking. He was supposed to get Archery because he finished it at scout camp. Turns out he finished Cooking at scout camp as well, but they forgot he was supposed to get Archery, so he’ll get it next time. :/

The mayor of Eagle Mountain came to speak to the boys at the court of honor. He talked about all the service that Boy Scouts provide to our community and how awesome that is, then he let us take a group picture of him with all the boys including any cubs that were there.

We left a space for the Archery badge, since that was where we were planning on putting it before we found out about the Cooking badge.

Flower Bed

I got sick of my flower bed, in front of the house, looking like this:

So I decided that it was time to change it up. It used to be one big flower bed. And the boxes with the sprinkler valves was right in the front middle, which made it impossible to plant anything there. When we had the sprinklers fixes a couple of years ago we had the guy MOVE the valves so they wouldn’t be in the flower bed at all. Not it was time to just reclaim the flower bed, and I decided that with his huge corner I wanted to make it tiered.

Here is my foundation for the second and third tiers.

Here, I’ve started filling them with dirt.

Here I’ve got all three tiers laid out and filled with dirt. You can still kind of see some of the foundation stones, but I’m hoping they won’t be that noticeable after planting flowers in there.