Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Reuben Wayne
Tricia started having regular contractions this morning about 1:30am. She let me stay asleep until 3:00, though, before she decided it was time to go. Grandma Dianne came over to stay with the kids (all still sleeping) and we got to the hospital around 4:00. Once they had decided that she was serious about today being the day, they admitted Tricia into Labor and Delivery. By 7:00 she was ready for an epidural, which made things much more comfortable, even though it slowed things down a bit. But by 10:30 the nurse thought she was ready to deliver, so they called in Doctor Willis. Once he came, things went pretty quickly and Reuben was born at 10:52am. He was 10 pounds and 3 ounces, 22 inches long. Baby's blood sugar is low, but other than that everything is fine and both mom and baby are recovering. I'll upload a photo or two as soon as I get home.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Tulip Festival
We take the kids out every year around their birthday for pictures. This year, I took Liv and Anna to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. Tricia isn't really into walking around for hours at a time, so she took Jarom over to Grandma's house for the afternoon. Here's a sampling from this year:
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Garden Boxes: The Saga Continues
Not a whole lot to report, except that the boxes are both built, and now filled with dirt. That completes the construction phase...
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Planter Box
We have a couple of outside projects planned this year. Today was the first Saturday I've had free for a few months, and it was also nice enough weather to be outside. Instead of going on a photo excursion (which I would have enjoyed more), we decided to work on a few of our projects.
First we dug up all the sprinklers on the south side of the house. Then we changed lawn heads for risers with shrub nozzles on them and got everything put back together. When we start watering, we're going to shut those ones off and let the lawn die on that strip. Then later this fall we'll tear it out, till it up, and put some gravel along the side of the house with some shrubs. Today was just the first step.
Next we built the first of two planter boxes. They are after a design Tricia found on a blog she enjoys: Pioneer Woman. We probably could have done both if we hadn't been working on sprinklers all morning instead. Oh well, I suppose we'll have to finish the second another day. A quick trip to Lowes netted us everything we needed: lumber, garden stakes, and water/rust-proof screws.
First we cut the 2x6 boards into the sizes we needed: 8' lengths and 4' lengths:
Then we pre-drilled holes on the 8' lengths:
Once all the holes were done, we built the first layer of the planter box:
Once it was all put together, we carried it over to where we wanted it to end up, and started staking it in place (and attaching it to the stakes with 2-1/2" screws). This is were we did the leveling and squaring up. Once everything was nice and level and square, we were almost done:
The second layer was pretty easy, because everything was already in place. All we had to do was put the boards up and attach them to the stakes:
And in the end, we have our first planter box:
Tricia is thinking about growing some herbs in them. You'll have to ask her which ones because I don't know. But it should be a fun summer, growing something useful and hopefully tasty. Thanks to Tricia's dad for letting us borrow his truck for the trip to Lowes. Thanks to Brian for letting us borrow his miter saw (which made cutting the lumber about a three minute process instead of thirty minutes with my hand-saw). Stay tuned for updates on the progress of the plants and food at the end.
First we dug up all the sprinklers on the south side of the house. Then we changed lawn heads for risers with shrub nozzles on them and got everything put back together. When we start watering, we're going to shut those ones off and let the lawn die on that strip. Then later this fall we'll tear it out, till it up, and put some gravel along the side of the house with some shrubs. Today was just the first step.
Next we built the first of two planter boxes. They are after a design Tricia found on a blog she enjoys: Pioneer Woman. We probably could have done both if we hadn't been working on sprinklers all morning instead. Oh well, I suppose we'll have to finish the second another day. A quick trip to Lowes netted us everything we needed: lumber, garden stakes, and water/rust-proof screws.
First we cut the 2x6 boards into the sizes we needed: 8' lengths and 4' lengths:
Then we pre-drilled holes on the 8' lengths:
Once all the holes were done, we built the first layer of the planter box:
Once it was all put together, we carried it over to where we wanted it to end up, and started staking it in place (and attaching it to the stakes with 2-1/2" screws). This is were we did the leveling and squaring up. Once everything was nice and level and square, we were almost done:
The second layer was pretty easy, because everything was already in place. All we had to do was put the boards up and attach them to the stakes:
And in the end, we have our first planter box:
Tricia is thinking about growing some herbs in them. You'll have to ask her which ones because I don't know. But it should be a fun summer, growing something useful and hopefully tasty. Thanks to Tricia's dad for letting us borrow his truck for the trip to Lowes. Thanks to Brian for letting us borrow his miter saw (which made cutting the lumber about a three minute process instead of thirty minutes with my hand-saw). Stay tuned for updates on the progress of the plants and food at the end.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Copperton Park
We took the kids for a drive yesterday, along the south-western borders of Salt Lake County. They just watched a movie while we drove, for the most part. We drove up Rose Canyon and thought how cool it would be to live over there-deer were just grazing in peoples' yards. The kids thought that was neat. We ended up in Copperton, and let the kids out to play in the park there. I remember that park from Crump family reunions when I was younger. We took this picture of the kids in front of the war memorial there in the park. They found Grandpa Don's name on it.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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