This week was pretty uneventful. Monday found us at Eisenhower (Nikki's home school) to help re-arrange the schedule for this year. We had Jitsu during the day, and then Ryan worked all night. Monday nights are the hardest for him, he has to work from 5pm to 2am (more like 2:30 by the time he leaves) and then get up for Spanish at 8 the following day. Nikki tries to be nice on Tuesdays....
Tuesday and Wednesday were spent playing with the pups, picking Blackberries from the overgrown backyard, and resting. August has been a tight month for us financially, so instead of going out, our new favorite thing is grilling for dinner!! We are learning a lot about how to make things instead of buying them, which has actually been a lot of fun!!
On that note - Nikki has been trying washing her hair with Baking Soda instead of shampoo. Thanks to a Miss Jill for the tip! Next we will be making a homemade body scrub and Burts Bee Facial Cleanser!
And now we come to Thursday! Anyone who knows Ryan knows that he likes projects, and Thursday he found one!! Here are the supplies, I'll let you guess what he did.....
Anyone? Anyone? Bueler? That's right, he created a HUSKER MAILBOX! It's not quite done yet (The paint takes several days to fully dry)
Tuesday and Wednesday were spent playing with the pups, picking Blackberries from the overgrown backyard, and resting. August has been a tight month for us financially, so instead of going out, our new favorite thing is grilling for dinner!! We are learning a lot about how to make things instead of buying them, which has actually been a lot of fun!!
On that note - Nikki has been trying washing her hair with Baking Soda instead of shampoo. Thanks to a Miss Jill for the tip! Next we will be making a homemade body scrub and Burts Bee Facial Cleanser!
And now we come to Thursday! Anyone who knows Ryan knows that he likes projects, and Thursday he found one!! Here are the supplies, I'll let you guess what he did.....
Anyone? Anyone? Bueler? That's right, he created a HUSKER MAILBOX! It's not quite done yet (The paint takes several days to fully dry)
Ryan was having a little too much fun with the spray paint! :) Here is the (thus-far) finished project!
Nikki's project for the week was to get Rudee smelling a little better. Perfume and Essential oils are apparently bad for dogs, so we had to go the old-fashioned "Bathing" route. The poor guy was NOT amused...
Have you EVER seen a face like that??? Pitiful.....I can just hear it now...."MOM, WHY ARE YOU TAKING PICTURES AND NOT STOPPING THEM????"
The rest of the weekend was spent baking 2 batches of cookies, 2 batches of brownies, and 2 kinds of foccacia bread. A bunch if teacher friends are coming over Monday night for a fondue night, and Nikki was getting ready for dessert. (THE most important course!) The only thing we need now is some berries.....oh wait, we just happen to have a weed in the backyard that produces some! I guess it's time to go pick, enjoy your week! We miss you all!!!
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LOVE the mailbox!!! You could make a business out of that!!
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