Happy Mothers Day!! This year we had a lot of fun! The weekend started off with the normal playing outside in the backyard
since the weather was warm and beautiful.
Then after being outside Brandon and the boys gave me a great mothers day present..
A BUMBO SEAT!!! I have wanted one since Coleton was born but could not justify getting it so the got if for me!
Well i think so?
Someimes i wonder if the boys just got it for themselves.
Either way i love it and it has been so handy having it so far! After naps, we headed down to see Brandon parents, spend the night, and went to church with them. I was really hoping to get a picture with both of the boys for mothers day but ..
Neither of them wanted to take a picture with me!
It was ok because as i looked back at the pictures i realized this is what motherhood really looks like but i am just so glad to have my two little boys!
Happy Mothers Day Everyone!!
Before...
After!
The grass is green, the rocks are layed, and the weeds are gone! We had one of Brandons students that has a bobcat truck come and move all of the rock because it was just taking us to long to do it a barrell at a time! We raked it out but it helped alot! The deal was that after we finished the back yard we could get the BBQ supplies out so here is what Brandon was able to get after everything was done!
Now everything is done, we love what we have and feel so lucky to be here right now!
while Brandon was doing homework for school i was outside between naps and started laying the ground cover! I had to level alot of the gound and remove alot of the huge rocks that we dug out so it was quite the work out for me.
I looked out to find that the hurricane wind had undone most of my work!! i had to go and relay the cover all over again, the ground staples were just not holding it so we had to use alot of rocks to hold it down. By the end of the day, Brandon had done 12 hours of homework and i had spend all day with the kids and finishing the backyard, I can already tell that tomorrow i am going to be so sore but we are now one more week closer to finishing the backyard.
We had all of the rock delivered to the house the night before so it was ready to go (two delivery trucks worth). 
On Saturday morning after the Father/son campout Brandon and his dad went and found us some good looking trees to plant in the front and back of the house!
It was a really hot day, hiting in the 90's, so Coleton stayed cool by playing in the water, 
while the rest of us where hard at work! We had talked to a local company about coming an digging holes for the trees so we would not have to but they never showed so Brandon (and some help from some students) we dug our own holes! Brandons parents were so sweet to come and help, they layed the ground cover in the front while brandon loaded barrell fulls of rock down.
After working in the hot sun for hours we decided to call it a day. We had finished most of the front yard (ground cover layed, tree planted, and rock layed) along with planting the three trees in the backyard (which was much harder because we live on solid volcanic rock so we were pulling bolders out) which made for quite the long day. 
We have so much left to do but we are getting there slowly!
I got everything packed that they would need extra clothes, diapers, first aid kits, snacks, and blankets and off they went.. the camp site was about 20 min away and it was located on flat rock.
That night the ward provided dinner so they sat and talked while coleton made rock piles with other kids from his nursery class. He also liked gathering stray sticks and gave all of them to the first councilor in the bishopic. 
That night after always playing with in a 15 feet radious of brandon, he curled up and went to bed. Since the ground was all rock, they slept in the back of the truck. Brandon had told me before they left that if Coleton kept waking up that they would be coming back early so all night i waited for the phone to ring telling me that they would be coming home but Coleton slept great. 
The next morning they woke up had breakfast loaded up and came home. Coleton cried as they brought him in to the house because he wanted to go back "campin".It makes us much more confident that if we went camping as a family we would have alot of fun. They had great time together and Brandon said he did great, so till next year!
Coleton has alot of fun with Grandpa Cheney, he loves ruff housing with him and suckering him in to giving him sweet treats. They also have alot in common like they both love trains, john deere tractor, and clocks.