Trip to Lowes

What a cold, misty, rainy, yucky weekend! We decided to tackle some house projects. This week I will be painting the basement, so we prepped by moving all of the furniture to the middle of the room. We're also selling the entertainment center, so we emptied that out. Now the kids like to use it as a pretend ice cream stand. They have all sorts of flavors. Chocolate cake flavor, rainbow, pickle. Actually on Friday, the ice cream truck came to the kids day care and everyone got snow cones. Blythe said she had strawberry and Ethan said he had pickle. And Blythe confirmed that Ethan had pickle flavor. I think they just said the green flavor was pickle, but I could be wrong.

Anyway, we also tackled more of our deck project (replacing the boards with Trex boards). And by "we", I mean Braden. After church yesterday, Braden and Ethan hit up Lowes for boards and also painting supplies. They documented their trip in pictures.

Ethan on the 10th of probably 30 tractors he had to sit on:

Ethan as a police officer:

And finishing up their trip with lunch at, where else but, TACO BELL:

So they had fun on that trip. It was a LONG weekend though with the kids mostly cooped up inside. Add to that that NONE of the kids wanted to nap yesterday and we had ourselves some fun times (I mean, if tantrums, crying, fighting, whining, and meltdowns are your idea of fun).