One Tired Momma

It's been so long since I have posted that I'm not sure I remember how. We were without Internet at home for about a month since my husband is a do-it-yourselfer and decided to move our radio and tower for our Internet by himself instead of paying them $75 per hour. The problem was that the new house that my husband is building started blocking our signal last October. But we couldn't move the equipment into our new house that didn't even have a complete roof yet. So my husband decided to move it on his own into a temporary home in a box outside. It sounded like a wonderful idea and even worked really well through rain and snow until we got about 12 inches of rain that flooded our $300 radio. So needless to say instead of paying the $75 per hour we got to replace an expensive radio instead. My husband still isn't convinced though that sometimes you just need to hire the experts. Oh, well we'll just tack it onto the everexpanding house building expenses.

What have we been doing the past month?

Trevor has finished preschool for the summer. We all took a trip to the Topeka Zoo for his class field trip. It was so fun! Theo and Trevor loved looking at the animals and riding the train. Trevor has also discovered a love for garage sales. He takes after me and loves to get bargains. He always looks for the free boxes and has found many treasures in them! If we see a garage sale while driving somewhere he always wants to stop--Who can blame him?

Theo is a definite outside boy! He loves to play under the porch which is what we have been doing most of the day lately. He loves dirt, rocks, and the sandbox. At the end of the day he is usually dirty from head to toe. His newest favorite thing to do is ride around in Trevor's little Jeep. He thinks he is so big and holds on very well with the biggest smile. He likes to run the shifter to make it go fast and then he just laughs. I always walk alongside him just in case so in the fast mode I am jogging beside him. Boy, am I out of shape so this is good exercise for me. Theo has also discovered going down slides lately and loves it! I almost forgot Theo's love for tractors. He got to bale his first hay with daddy a couple of weeks ago and has been hooked ever since. If he sees a tractor, he gets so excited and immediately wants a ride. Unfortunately, he doesn't get to ride that often and gets very mad when he doesn't get his way. Luckily the grandparents both have little riding tractors that he loves!

Well, the reason for the title of the post is because I have had 4 kids all week as we got to watch nephews Henry (6) and Luke (4)for the week while their sister Clara competed in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.. All the boys were great, and Theo and Trevor loved having them here. I am just very tired from all the activity from Son Up til Son Down literally!

On Saturday night we all went to the Drive In to see The Battle at the Smithsonian. Trevor loved the movie and of course stayed awake for the whole thing. Luckily Theo was a good boy and fell asleep after about 30 minutes into the movie.

Travis is super busy haying so the boys miss not getting to see their Daddy as much. We will be glad when it rains again so he can get a little break.