Busy, busy

Every 2 weeks, we have a big cleaning weekend where we mop, do sheets, bathtubs, etc. etc. (I'm sure some of you are disgusted that we only do this every 2 weeks, but that is life right now!) and have decided to include the children in our fun.  It is a lot of work to clean the entire house from top to bottom and even though the kids aren't perfect and we have to redo a lot of what they do, it feels better to get some help from them and it teaches them how to clean, so hopefully, someday we won't have to redo their work.  K and Reggie actually had fun last week washing windows:

It was perfect timing since my parents were coming for a visit.  They decided to surprise us and come on Monday instead of Wed., but we were suspicious that they might pull that since we showed up to their house early last summer.  We were nice and ready, but the kids were totally surprised :o).  It was good because they had a few more days to get into the swing of things at our crazy house!  Dad got out of the car and went right to work on the Casita!  We made some good progress this week and just have to hook up the bathroom plumbing and paint and we should be good to go!!!!  The tankless hot water works great, the counter tops look awesome and things are starting to  land in their permanent places, FINALLY.  Poor Ryan finally went to the doctor since his hand goes numb every night.  It got better when he separated his shoulder because he couldn't do anything.  No surprise he has tennis elbow and is supposed to rest, but he keeps working instead.  The pain woke him up this morning :(.
Today, Reggie had the pinewood derby for cub scouts and that was a lot of fun.  His car was in the middle of the pack most of the time and grandpa was very excited about the Hershey chocolate car.  Ainsley found her friends right away and K made friends in an instant, so they were all smiles.

 Ryan helping out....

From there, Ainsley, K and I went to his brother's birthday party.  Ainsley had so much fun playing with his cousin, Natalie.  They will all sleep good tonight!