Patio

One Saturday morning I went and got groceries while Tyler stayed home with the kiddos.  I returned to see him and the boys in the back yard measuring out the grass with yarn and sticks.  I calmly put away the groceries wondering what dream Tyler was chasing.   He soon filled me in that he wanted to build a porch.  "Ok" i calmly said. "What does that mean?"

Over the years of living in our house i've heard him tell of many "ideas" he had.  Knocking out walls, putting walls up, adding a hot tub, etc etc.  A lot of dreaming. This idea actually sounded attainable with out limited experience of construction.

He showed me a video he had found online and the whole idea sounded amazing.  We had been wanting to do something for our yard and to create a better spot for us to enjoy our yard.  I don't think that either of us knew that this "easy" project would be as much work as it was!

First step was digging.  We didn't have a bobcat to help.  It was all shovel.  Tyler said that we had to dig deep because we needed to do layer of rock and a layer of sand.

We hired a great kid from our church to help us.  He was awesome.  I tried helping out there with Ty and i just wasn't a good fit for us to work together.  I think one of my shovel fills was 1/4 of one of Tylers.  I think i did more harm then good!

Mike and Shelby's family stayed with us for a few weeks while waiting to close on their house.  Mike was awesome to help Tyler with this project.  We owe them help on a porch!

Portland

The end of July our little family went on our first airplane trip together!! We went up to portland to see Tyler's cousin get married.  It was an adventure going up.  Sitting still for that long was hard for Gray- especially because we saved the money and made him a lap child.  Looking back- he did great.  There was just no sitting back and enjoying the ride. Roman loved it.  He was all about the dr pepper that came each flight. :) 

Grayson is lactose intolerant- there was so much anxiety about if the TSA would let us through with his  1/2 gallon of milk- That first trip through security I was so nervous they were going to make me throw it away.  However, they were fabulous about it.  They tested it's vapors and were fine with me taking it.   Immediate relief! 

They were so excited to travel! The entire trip we'd hear a scream of joy and "airplane" when we'd see them.  Often we'd hear people around us laugh because of the excitement these two boys showed for airplanes- the airport was full of them :)

 Getting this guy to sleep was rough-  he missed his nap so he was beyond tired- Tyler was amazing.  He walked up and down the aisle with him until he finally crashed!