A Memorial Day Countdown

1. Playing hide-and-seek with Grandma and Grandpa.  Andrew has a new set of rules every time we play.  This time the "it" had to touch the "found" player with a ball.  When asked by my dad who made him the king of the house, Andrew squarely looked him in the eye and said "Jesus."  Hard to argue with that kind of alabi.

2. Moving on from hide-and-seek (which grandpa is really good at) we mastered our badmitten skills.  Andrew was seriously in the game.  We even beat Grandma and Grandpa one game out of two (and they were trying)!

3. Making strawberry jam for awesome Pre-K teachers. This is one of the good things about living in a small town. You know how to find everyone.  With the craziness of the end of the school year, I had the best intentions to search out some great end-of-year teacher gifts but just ran out of time.  Until now.  I found some perfect ideas on pinterest.com. We had a great time making the jam - and it was super easy (no cooking kind, recipe right off the pectin label)!  This project gave me the idea to make this a weekly activity...not neccesarily making jam but doing something nice for someone else each week.  Next week, I think we will take some of our gorgeous hydrangeas to the nursing home for Andrew and Ryan to hand out.  I'll let you know how it goes...

Our special teacher berry gifts

4. Wearing high heels and playing hide-and-seek.  The fun didn't stop at Grandma and Grandpa's house!  Andrew and Ryan were running around the house playing hide-and-seek with each other - each in a pair of my heels.  Daddy is SO proud!  (It is a good thing that he was at the country club working non-stop this weekend so he didn't have to witness this!)

5. Painting the walls. We have FINALLY settled on a wall color that we both like for the entry hall and family room.  It has been a BIG looming cloud for a while now, but I can finally finish painting and begin decorating the one place that it has been killing me to see so bare!  I will have to do a reveal of the final to-do when it is complete.

6. Talking to Grandma H. on the phone.  You never know these days if the overly talkative Andrew is going to show up when a phone call is made.  Today he was all about talking to Grandma.  Ryan was right there wanting in on the action too.  He was SO sweet asking to go to Grandma's hous-ch.