After arriving back in the 'Ham Friday night following our vacation in S.C., we basically crashed. We spent Saturday unpacking and whacking away at the brush and weeds in our yard. You can tell the yard has been cared for in the past, just not recently, so we had to clean out some flower beds and get rid of this crazy vine growing over our fence in the backyard that was about to take over the nice ivy we have growing there too.
Robert trimmed up some shrubbery in the front and back and managed to dig up an incredibly long root system from a sweet gum tree that was cut down but whose roots have still set up residence in our lawn. I think he was able to uproot them with special vigor since once of them was the culprit for tearing up one of his lawn mower blades.
We've discovered the mosquitoes around our house are especially vicious. I was working in jeans and a long sleeve shirt to avoid bites. We're hoping to rid ourselves of them once we get rid of all the old stuff in our flower beds. (If any of you were bitten an abnormally high number of times at our 4th of July cookout, please forgive us!)
After our yard work on Saturday we went to Kyle and Megan Manley's for dinner. We had a blast hanging out with them and especially getting to know Megan better. I'm so glad they're in Bham and look forward to having some fun couple times with them.
We kept the nursery at church today and had to jointly manage NINE 2-year-olds!!! Talk about crazy. I think that's about the best form of birth control we can get. The children were good, but still, that's a lot of kids and craziness all at once. We were both so tired afterwards. I think we've been sleepy all day. After a week with Tallon and then this nursery experience I have a much greater respect for parents and their strength, patience, and stamina.
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