Memorial Weekend & More

So I invited more people to our blog, then I don't blog for more than a week. Sorry about that!

Anyway, we had a good Memorial Day weekend. I was sick on Saturday, so I spent the whole day on the couch. Joel and his Dad worked on the basement a little more. Sunday we just hung out. It was nice to just lounge around and not think about going back to work. Monday we got up kind of early and got to work. Joel spent the morning at Home Depot getting things for our backyard and basement. I spent the morning getting ready for the afternoon!

Every year my family gets together at the park and has a barbeque. This year, just as we were pulling up to the park, it started to pour down rain. The temperature dropped about 20 degrees, too. The rain finally stopped a few minutes later, but it was still pretty cold. All the girls huddled together in the pavillion while the boys tried to figure out how to keep the barbeque dry and lit. It was fun to sit and chat with everyone since we haven't gotten together as a family in forever, but it was all short lived. We quickly ate lunch and left. We were all frozen solid and just couldn't take it anymore. I didn't take any pictures, but here is one my mom sent us of Joel eating his double decker hamburger.

We spent the rest of the afternoon doing things around the house. The Harrison's had a little BBQ later that night, so we went over and just hung out for a couple of hours. All in all, it was a good weekend.

This week we have been busy with trying to play catch up with our workouts at the gym, picking out paint colors for the basement (it is a lot more difficult than we expected!), and FINALLY planting our garden. We finished up the garden yesterday and had a lot of fun doing it. It was a lot of hard, hot work, but it was nice to be able to spend a full day outside accomplishing something.

On one of our trips to Home Depot yesterday to get stuff for the garden, we stopped by Wal-Mart and picked Jenna up a little pool to swim in while we worked. She looked so cute in her little swimsuit we could hardly stand it! The water was a little cold, but she still had fun. She keeps begging to get back in the "watey" (I don't know why she calls it that because she really can say "water").

I'm ready!

Testing the water

Isn't this swimsuit the cutest! I love the little cutout. (Maybe not the most modest, but by far the cutest!)

Of course, she wanted to take her clothes off ten minutes after getting in the water.