Working in the Basement

Hello all!  Things are going great.  I am a little sore/tired today from working in the basement yesterday, but more on that later.  Last Sunday Brooke and I played in our leaf pile in the back yard!  Brooke had a lot of fun and enjoyed throwing the ball into the leaf pile, as well as having me throw it and her chase it around the back yard.  I also spent a little while chasing her around the pile, and jumping on her whenever she'd trip!  It was a lot of fun.

While we were out there she also had to help build the leaf pile as big as possible!

Brooke is a natural born helper, and this past week she helped Monica make pancakes for breakfast!  They were delicious too!  She really likes to add ingredients to the bowl, so Monica would measure things out and then hand the spoon/cup to Brooke to pour in!

Jelly continues to love to crawl under things.  She does sometimes go into her paper bag, but this past week she also figured out how to get underneath... as long as she's having fun.

The King Soopers by our house has a horse that costs a penny to ride.  They also have a big tub of pennies to use to ride the horse.  We let Brooke ride it for the first time on Saturday when we went to get pumpkins.  She liked it some, but didn't stay on for very long.

Once we got back from getting pumpkins it was time to work on the basement.  In case you don't remember, here's how things were progressing.

Ok, Ok, in reality I did do a few more sections than that the week that Monica and Brooke were in Utah.  But I was down in the basement working for almost 8 hours yesterday!  Here is a picture of the basement now!  If you click it it should enlarge, but I'm almost done with the framing all the way around the exterior!!!  That means I'm almost to the point where I can start adding interior walls!  I'm hoping to be a little more diligent this week and do work here and there on various nights and not rely so heavily on Saturday, but we'll see how it goes.

In church today we had a lesson about a talk from this past general conference.  The talk was about making repentance be a positive experience.  It was a really great lesson.  It is important when repenting to make sure that we see our progress and understand that we're becoming more like our Heavenly Father, which are definitely good things!

I think that's a wrap for this week.  I hope everyone is doing fabulous!