We finally have cousins coming to visit and Savannah is so excited. She talks about Isaac all the time. Today she was eating an apple and said she was going to share it with Isaac when he comes. She also plans on marrying him using a rubberband as a wedding ring.

It will be nice to have Ike and Luke here to play with her and even better now that the yard is somewhat done. We bought some sand toys and Annie is in heaven. We are working on "sand stays in the sandbox" rule.

Here's a look at our beautiful grass which Savannah loves. It will be so nice and cool when it warms up. It'll also cut down on the dirt in the house:)
I don't know why she likes it so much, by my little "cracker" plays on this piece of sod all the time. I guess it's just her size.

I finally got around to some sewing. Savannah was so excited when she saw "Hoot" on my sewing table. "That's just like the owl at Holly's work!" She carries it all around and has taken to chewing on the wings. I'm pretty sure they are going to fall off before too long. I'm going to make owls in every color of the rainbow. They are so cute!

Here is something I worked on while the Brooks were visiting. I am pretty proud of myself for being able to do it. The side towers had to be sewn on by hand and my fingers took a beating. I plan on using this for our church bag - lots of room to store snacks, books, crayons, etc. It's a lot of pink, but you can never have too much pink, right?

Well, that's about it for me. Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Rock on

Eighty-six tons of rock, twelve tons of sand, one happy girl!

Savannah could spend the entire day playing outside as long as someone is around to push her on demand. Luckily, Nana and Papa are here to follow orders for one more day.

The elders quorum president arranged to have a bunch of men and a backhoe here to move rock last Saturday. Men started showing up at 7:30 (fifteen total!) and by 9:00 they had leveled half the rock and all of the sand. These are people who had never met us, but showed up because we needed help. I am still in awe of their kindness.

Steve has been hard at work for two weeks assembling the swingset, digging trenches, laying sprinklers and more. What would we do without him?

Jeremy found another use for his quad and Steve thought it looked like fun. That is a piece of a pizza oven conveyer belt they are using to level the ground. Boys and their toys!

Here are a few pics of what we've done so far:

Swingset and sandbox

Before rock

After rock

Fire and horseshoe pits

Who wants to make a reservation???