Beautiful weekend

Friday we got our plants at the FFA plant sale. Valynn had a 1/2 day of school so we went to Wildlife Prairie State Park after Kyra's gymnastics with Chantel and kids (the train picture should have 8 kids, if you look closely you can see one escaping out the back). We were there for close to 4 1/2 hours. The kids had a great time, looking at the animals. It was a cloudy/ rainy day and all of the animals were out. On the way home Kyra fell asleep, she slept from 4:30 until 7:00 the next morning. She was up about three times in the middle of the night but went back to sleep everytime.

Saturday morning Mark started planting the trees that we bought. I'll post pictures later. We have had so much rain this spring that the water table is only 2 feet beneath the surface. As Mark was digging the holes, they were filling in with water. The water table is above our basement floor but so far our basement has remained dry, the sump pump runs every 10 minutes. After the soccer games we went to the Padilla's for supper. The kids did a great job at soccer, Mason says he scored 7 goals, we're not sure about that because the kids were playing at the same time so we didn't see every score. We had a great supper and visit with the Padilla's before heading home. Sunday I read in church and the kids had Sunday school. We then attended family day at what we thought was the last day of soccer but they are playing next Saturday to make up their last game. Mason once again scored quite a few goals and Valynn played the whole game and did a wonderful job on defense. After the soccer games we headed home to get as much done outside as we could. Mark finally got the lawn mowed (most of it, some was too wet to get to). I weeded my flower bed and transplanted some strawberries. We got the kids' flowers planted in their pots. Valynn and Mason do it all on their own which is great.

Tonight we home to get started on the garden before it rains again (right now they are calling for rain tomorrow afternoon). Have a good week!