Well, onto the rest of the news. We've had a busy last month of traveling and housing projects. Most of us were able to go down to the farm to celebrate Easter. We didn't get to have Andrea's fiance Zach along with us, but we're hoping we get to see him this summer a bit more now that he graduated from college. It was fun to get to see the little band of cousins interact with eachother.
It makes me really excited to see our family continue to grow and I can only hope that all of our kids get to have as much fun with all their cousins at get togethers like this as we did when we were little. I know I speak for all of my siblings when I say that there are a lot of good memories of family get togethers, camping trips and just hanging out at grandma and grandpa's house.
After Easter, we took grandpa Schweitzer's little utility trailer home for a weekend project that Katie has been on me to do for her. Luckily I conned...... I mean....... was able to have my cousin Darren graceously agree to come up and help me for the weekend the following Saturday. We spent a better part of the day getting the clay in my backyard dug up and removed so we could start getting the raised garden in place. Clay you say to yourself.... While yes, I do have grass, the material they used to back fill against our house is clay and it gets really really hard. So all I can say is thanks for coming up and helping me Darren, because if you hadn't I'd still be out there.
I was also lucky enough to persuade Mikaela to come up and watch Sutton for the day. Not only while we were out in the yard, but also for a little in the afternoon as well when Darren, Jamey Kennel and myself went to the golf course for a "quick" 9 holes. Let me just tell you now.... we're not going pro anytime soon. Holy cow I'm bad. But we did have a fun time just getting to hang out and catch up with one another since we don't get to do that very often anymore. I won't post any pictures though... mainly because we couldn't get any good shots through all the tree branches and from the bottom of all the water hazards.
That's all I can really think of for now. I will say on a final note that we're extremely excited for this summer as we anticipate all the activities we have going on. What with weddings, camping and other trips we have planned... it should be quite a busy time. I guess I shouldn't say that we're still looking forward to summer because as of yesterday we had over 100 degree weather. Dang man... where'd spring go?
