Labor Day Weekend

We had an amazingly productive Labor Day weekend.

It felt soooo good to get so many things done!

Peter was amazing and did a bunch of things on his to do list!

 He helped Joey make this shelf to pass off a requirement for scouts. The shelf is made from the boards Joey broke for his 2nd degree black belt.  The book ends are made from the boards he broke when he earned his 1st degree black belt. 

 He installed a new light fixture in the upstairs bathroom which also involved patching some holes in the wall from the previous fixture. 

 Lily and I supervised as he pruned one of the trees in our front yard. 

He also finished installing new outdoor light fixtures by the front door. You can just see one of them in the above picture. 

Joey and Peter also mowed our lawn as well as our friends' lawn -they were out of town. 

 This project started before Samantha was born.

This is the accent wall in her room. I hope to add "I am a Child of God" to the inside of the big frame and maybe a few other accents here and there. I will also be putting actual pictures of her in the 3 smallest frames. 

By Saturday night, Joey was not feeling well and was running a fever of 102.8 which then spiked to 105.6 on Sunday. Oh that kid does not seem to understand that he does not need to have raging fevers for us to believe he is sick. I called in a favor at work and they called in a prescription because he had the nastiest tonsils and all of the symptoms he usually gets when he has strep throat. He started the medicine on Sunday but was still sick on Tuesday morning and could not go to school. I took him in to the pediatrician and she put him on a new antibiotic. He made it to school on Wednesday but did not show a big difference until that afternoon. I hope he is the only one. You know Joey is sick when he does not spend some part of his day jumping. But, you also know he is doing better when he heads for the trampoline for some good jumping.