Catching Up

 Just trying to catch up on some events and stuff. 

So I've been overly proud of Merrick here lately.  At only 40 months old (just shy of 3.5yrs) he has learned to ride his bike without training wheels.  He can start on his own, break and stop.  Not bad for a kid who should be far behind his peers given his setbacks.

 Here's one of Merrick fielding a ground ball and throwing it back.  I'm using a real aluminum bat and a real baseball here, none of that soft stuff for this kid.  He really loves baseball. I'm not sure what happened to the sound on this but it was too hard to hold the camera and hit him a grounder to bother with doing it over.

We took them to Boondocks to play some mini golf.  By the third hole Merrick had lost his ball in the pasture next to the course.  He did hit it pretty far though.  Gavin was sinking puts all night.  They loved it.  We also played some video games for awhile and the boys really loved that.

I finally got to take the Gavman out shooting.  He had so much fun.  He actually hit a balloon on his second shot.  I could not ask for a better son.  He really loved the paintball marker too.  I let him shoot that one by himself and he got a kick out of that. 

Just when I'm puffed up and proud of my boys, I walk into the boys room and see this going on.  Appalling, just appalling. They did not get this behavior from me. 

Hopefully between the guns and their dancing the boys will be able to scare off any would be suitors of Sophia.  "My precious..."

My family means the world to me, in fact, they are my world.  Without them I have nothing, with them I have all that I need.   

Quick Sprinkler fix

Here is just a quick sprinkler fix that's easy to put together when you don't have the means to put in a real sprinkler system.  I was tired of having to set a few sprinklers each time I watered.  I used to use the impact heads that would stake into the ground.  I would have to spend a few minutes making sure that it was properly aligned each time I watered.  After a while the water would loosen up the soil and the stake would shift casing the water to go into the street on onto our driveway and cars.  Needless to say I was tired of this happening.

So I did some research and copied a sprinkler system I found online.  All the materials used were purchased from Home Depot for about $25.00.  It simply consists of a gear driven sprinkler head (an impact head would work fine too) some funny pipe, the necessary fittings, a valve box, and a quick release hose connector. The quick release hose connector is the key.   This allows you to just connect the hose turn the water on and you're done.  The rest is buried and set like a permanent system.  This is kind of a permanent system but instead of piping it all in you just use a regular hose.  Here are some pictures of what it looks like.  If this is something that you would like to do too just let me know if you need any help or advice.

The Fourth's Festivities

 

She takes after her mother. So very beautiful, among other things...

 A good showing this year Kaysville city, Kudos. 

 

(Be very quite I'm hunting a purple polka doted octopus.)

I realize I'm getting older when I pull out the camping floppy hat to stay out of the sun. 

We had another good 4th this year.  Thank you to all who came and hung out with us.  Family and friends is what its all about. 

P.S. The garden is coming in nicely.