A Visit from Family and Some Shots of a Father's Day gift in the making

Part 1 
Jed's mom and two younger brothers came from Idaho for a visit. Jed and I, being the amazing people we are, made them work their tails off the whole time. Note: Jed worked really hard to save up time to take the days off of work and we knew this was it for us, so we had to take advantage of the time. We got a lot finished!

We
sanded, stained and  varnished, or painted a desk and two dressers

 dug a trench and placed a pipe to help stop our pool on our back porch

built shelves for our laundry room

found, dug out, and cleaned a bunch of pretty rocks that are now the border in our front garden

ate lots of food

spilled half of a sam's club sized tub of Ranch dressing

went to Lowe's many many times
cleared out all brush and over grown yuck around our fences
three of us successfully got lots of poison ivy...yep I got a nice shot in the bum
shortened our blinds
taught the boys and lisa how to play uker
were taught how to play nertz (Best game EVER)
played Mexican train many times
played Bang!
and lot's more.....

Dalton was a major trooper!

Thanks guys for coming and helping!!!

If you are wondering, I have been taking a lot of before and after pictures of all of our fun projects and of our house. I really just want to wait until we get curtains in all the rooms, and then I should be ready for you to see this stage of our home! :O)


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Part 2

I don't actually have any pictures of Father's Day uploaded yet, but I wanted to show some of the pictures I took of Dalton. I used his "D" and "A" from in his room and had him hold them. I was wanting to have them printed and put into a picture frame with three slots, but tell me how I am supposed to do that with us only having one car? :O) Plus by the time I gave Dalton the "A" the car died. But here are some of the pictures.