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Weekly Happenings: We had a pretty low-key week. Most of our stuff happened during the weekend. 🙂

The Weekly Weather: It was pretty mild with the exception of Thursday night. We had quite a storm come through. Joseph slept through the heaviest of the rain, but woke up during the crazy thunder and lightning. He was pretty scared. I ended up holding him while rocking in the rocker until the storm passed and then snuggling him in bed for a bit before he was willing to go back to his bed.

What Paul’s Been Up To: He. Built. Me. A. Farmhouse. Table. Squeeeeeeee!!!!!!! He spent a few days mulling over the design and then took Friday off to buy materials and build it. I took Joseph to the zoo and to the mall while he was building it so that he didn’t have us underfoot and he could build it inside as opposed to in the garage or in the yard. He wrote up a post on his blog (if you click on the word “blog” it will take you to his blog post about it).

What Sarah’s Been Up To: As aforementioned, I took Joseph to the zoo and then to the mall while Paul was doing his project. I also hosted a party for my friend who is a consultant for the company Thirty-one (a company that sells all sorts of different bags/totes/organizers, etc.). It was fun to get together with some of my girlfriends, eat snacks, and look at really cute and fun stuff. Plus, since Paul was able to finish the table on Friday, I was able to show it off on Saturday at the party. 😉 I also helped Paul move our old table and chairs out to the garage so that someone could come and get them (Paul advertised them on Craigslist on Friday night and someone came and got them Saturday afternoon).

What Joseph’s Been Up To: The two big things that stick out this week are that he was able to be in the same room with me while I was vacuuming (without being scared) and he has stopped screaming/crying when we wash his hair (with anything other than a damp washcloth). Paul has been working with him on the hair-washing, which is great! He still complains a bit, but he doesn’t carry on the way that he used to. We just tell him to close his eyes as we dump the water over his head. 😉

This Week in Pictures:

Bonus Video: Joseph decided that my leg made for a pretty good buckin’ bronco. 😉

Weekly Happenings: Paul took this past Monday off, so we decided to go to the zoo and also the Japanese Tea Gardens. I’m glad we had that fun day, because it made it easier to take the rest of the week easy. 🙂 On Thursday, we had some friends over for dinner, who have a little boy about a year younger than Joseph. Those two played together so well! I love that we’re making good friends here!

The Weekly Weather: Rinse and repeat from last week (minus the rain)…hot, hot, hot!

What Paul’s Been Up To: Besides work, which keeps him pretty busy, he’s been working with his scout, as well as continuing to improve our backyard (with putting borders around the trees in the backyard).

What Sarah’s Been Up To: Piano students, getting the visiting teaching report done, and keeping Joseph entertained was the order of the week. 😉

What Joseph’s Been Up To: Trying to fix owies (I hurt my toe and he told me that putting his Mickey Mouse slippers on my feet would make me feel better. After I showed him they wouldn’t fit, he settled for giving me a hug.) and coming up with cute things to say and do. One thing he told me was that he loved our Roku Box. It may or may not be because of the fact that he realizes that the Roku Box provides him with some of his favorite shows on demand. 😉 Another thing he did was to run around the house telling me that he was Super Joseph and that he was there to rescue me. 🙂

This Week in Pictures:

Weekly Happenings: It seems crazy that the year is already over halfway over. We had a relatively quiet week at home. There was one day that I took Joseph to one of the free kids’ movies that the theater near us offers. Joseph thought it was interesting at first (the big screen, etc.), but lost interest after about 30 minutes. Luckily, since it was free (with the exception of $3.00 spent on popcorn and a drink), I didn’t feel bad about leaving. We also let him swim in the pool one day this week, and then we had some fun with the neighbors on Friday (4th of July). After we had the missionaries over to have dinner with us, we went across the street to shoot off fireworks with the neighbors across the street (who also happen to be a family in our ward). We let Joseph stay up past his bedtime so that he could see some of them after it got dark. We would have stayed out later, but it started to rain. 🙂 The “neighborhood shows” as I like to call them, lasted well past midnight, but luckily Joseph slept through them.

The Weekly Weather: Mostly sunny and warm with a few random thunderstorms here and there. 🙂

What Paul’s Been Up To: Working hard at work and continuing to work hard to keep our house and yards looking nice. Yesterday he bought more fence boards so that he can frame the trees in the backyard like he did the one in the front. 🙂 He also got gardening tape to tie the tomatoes to their supports a bit better.

What Sarah’s Been Up To: Other than piano teaching, keeping Joseph happy, healthy, and entertained and keeping the house (relatively) clean, I’ve been pretty busy with the ward choir and doing my visiting teaching coordination stuff. The end of the month is always busy in that aspect.

What Joseph’s Been Up To: His imaginative play has been through the roof. He will entertain himself for a good hour with his cars, or books, etc. It amazes me. I admit I may have taken a nap during one of the long stretches where he entertained himself. He’s also continually making new friends. He’s such a social little guy. Finally, he has figured out that the show, “Bob, the Builder” is pretty cool. 🙂

This Week in Pictures: