My handsome baby was in his 4th grade play where he played the part of Jim Bridger, a trapper. He said his lines loud and clear and with a lot of enthusiasm. He is quite the actor!
Off to our favorite spring and early summer activity. Cameron loves to play Lacrosse and this year really got aggressive and played hard every game.
Happy Mother's Day to me. I love the bouquet of Yard flowers the boys make for me every year and the display they put it on. This year Braxton was too cool and too tired so he just got up for the giving of the gift, not the gathering. I sure love those boys and am so proud to be their mother and also humbled at the big job it is to be their mother.
The roof over at our rental house was slipping in the front under the chimney, we had a roof guy come look at it and he recommended replacing the roof. Of course, this is a giant project with 3 layers of shingles to scrape off and a new roof of decking to put back on before we started shingling. After 2 full 14 hour days, we knocked that thing out. We had a lot of help from Brent, Cody, my Mom and Dad, Lisa and Neil, Jake and a whole bunch of hired hands in the form of teenage boys. It was probably the hardest project as far as sweat breaking labor we have ever done together. Rain was in the forecast, so we hurried fast and covered it at nights. The finished product turned out great and the rental house once again provided some income for the teenagers at our house and other boys also, but most of all provided 10 boys an opportunity to learn how to work. I feel kids need this so much and maybe I over provide on the work aspect of life, but a busy boy is a happy boy and there is no substitute for hard work. This is the reason Shane and I were inspired to buy Grandma's house and we have had many opportunities to work together over there. In fact, my friend was asking us about it up camping the other day and Cameron said "I like having a rental house, we get to learn a lot of new things, and work hard, and get paid to do it." I told my friend, 'it sounds like it is serving the purpose I intended.' (of course there aren't any pics of me picking up shingles ALL day off the ground, but that was my main job.)
I got to go to Cameron's 4th Grade field trip to American West Heritage center. It was really entertaining and the kids learned a lot.
Sometimes 5:45 A.M. catches up with a young boy.
Both Braxton and Dakota earned special awards at school this year. I am so proud of how hard they work at school.
The annual Memorial day BBQ with the Pilgrim Family.
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