A Busy Weekend

This last weekend was super busy. Productive, but exhausting. Let's start with Friday. I decided we needed an outside outing. The weather wasn't super warm, but it wasn't freezing, so we went to Wheeler Farm to check out the animals. It was packed. I have never seen it so crowded. There were several school groups there in addition to the normal mom crews. It also got really windy, so we didn't stay too long, but Davin was in heaven with all the ducks running around.
Weston's favorite was still the tractors.
My favorite was having a quick camera to take some pictures. :) We met Ian for lunch after we had visited all the animals, battled the crowded (gross) bathrooms, and stepped in lots of duck poop.

This is from Thursday night I think. Davin was my little waffle making helper. He was so excited that he got to wear the kid apron and help stir.
Friday night I went down to Provo for my long lost friend Lindsey's bridal shower. We were Spanish speaking buddies freshman year at BYU, but then lost contact for several years. We have reconnected lately on our blogs and Facebook. Anyway, it was super fun to visit with her after not seeing her for 7 or 8 years. After her shower I dropped in to visit with another college friend, Lisa. We visited until late. Then I had to drive home in a crazy storm. Strong wind, strong rain, lots of standing water. Let's just say I hydroplaned 4 or 5 times and it was scary. I didn't get home until late. Ian had started ripping out the walls in the den when I got home, but there was no way he was going to be able to finish that night, so we pretty much called it a night and got ourselves to bed.

BEFORE
Saturday was construction day! Luckily we had some friends come to help. There is no way we would have gotten as far as we did without them. Thanks Wilson's, Bayles', and Campos'! The Campos' watched the boys all morning while we were working. It was so nice not having to worry about them.

DEMOLITION
I thought the room looked tiny without walls or furniture. Doesn't make sense, but it did. After we got all the drywall and insulation down we put up heavy duty plastic sheeting along the walls we were insulating to keep the insulation clean and to help seal off the multiple cracks and little holes in the outside walls. Next we put up the insulation.

INSULATION
Finally we did drywall. By the time Ian got back from his 3rd trip to the store with the drywall it was getting late in the afternoon. The guys only had time to get a couple of sheets of drywall up.

DRYWALL
We didn't get quite as far as we were hoping, but it was a productive day and it's coming along. We are on budget so far too, so that's good! By Saturday night Ian and I were both so tired. I slept better than I have in weeks.

Last night we went to Ian's boss, Steve's, house to watch the finale of LOST. It was fun to watch it with Steve and Erin (Steve's wife) and Zack (another co-worker). We put Davin to bed around 9:30, but just tucked Weston in on the couch with Charlotte's Web thinking that he would for sure conk out. Nope. He stayed awake the whole time until we got in the car around 11:45pm. Needless to say everyone is napping right now.

Today was Weston's end of the year class party. It was supposed to be a water party outside, but alas, we woke up to snow this morning, so they just played inside, watched a movie, and had ice cream. I think he still had fun, but I'm looking forward to the whole preschool end of year picnic on Wednesday when the weather is supposed to be a pleasant 75 degrees.