Mulch, mulch and more mulch

We just finished spreading 6 cubic yards of mulch this weekend. We ordered it on Wednesday and it was suppose to come on Friday but it never showed up. So I called and they rescheduled for Saturday morning. Well we came back from Yoga at 11:00 and we had not mulch. So I called again and the people said that the truck that was caring our mulch broke down so they would call another store and have them deliver it. So around 1 o'clock a truck came with our mulch. We were excited but it did not look like very much mulch. So we figured that we would have to order more later. Well about ten minutes later another truck came with our order of mulch. I told them that we had already gotten what we ordered but I said that we wanted more and if they dropped the delivery charge that we would take that mulch. So we ended up getting 6 cubic yards of mulch and it pretty much was enough. We did not have enough to cover behind our shed but that is alright we may run over and get some bags at a later date. So the yard looks great and it took two long days of spreading mulch. D was in charge of putting the mulch in the wheelbarrow and I was in charge of spreading it.

Our next door neighbor helped a lot with Nathan on Saturday and then on Sunday our other neighbor boy helped for a little while before Nathan took his nap. It was a nice weekend so the kids just mostly played outside by themselves or with the neighbors so we mostly worked on the mulch with a little kid distractions thrown in the once in awhile.


Before (you can't really see the beds because of the shadow)

After

Another part

On Wednesday we went to D's basketball recreational league game. The kids were really excited and it was fun to see them enjoy watching their dad play ball. Nathan really liked it and for the first half was pretty content just watching the game but the second half was a little restless so they played ball with some other kids.

There he is taking a shot. Look at his form. Good form D.


Here is the beginning of a fit


Here is Nathan watching the game. Too cute.

We had a ton of rain on Monday and Tuesday of this weekend so everything was wet and the Mallory and Nathan decided to go and play in the puddles and get into the dirt. They had fun and I was glad that Nathan got dirty since he is very particular about some things. He enjoyed it and I am glad he was not screaming at me every time he got a piece of dirt on him.

Here is the mud hole that they were occupying. It now has mulch in it so it will not longer be a mud hole.




I bribed Mallory to pose for me and Nathan came along and started asking her questions.


Mallory also went worm hunting and found lots of worms and let Nathan play with them. He was a little scared but he soon liked touching them which was also another big step for him. He is always scared of bugs/spiders and other moving creatures so it was good to see him interested in touching them. Mallory was sweet because she was acting like the worms mother and would take care of them. We finally had to put them away so that they would not get too hot on the picnic table.

Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-the mulch incident working out in our benefit
-having great neighbors
-a nicely mulched yard
-good weather weekend