Go BYU!

We went to the BYU vs UNLV (59-21) game on October 10. It was Lucas's first football game and he LOVED it. Yesterday when we were flipping channels on the TV, he saw a football game and starting yelling "booball" and actually wanted me to stay on that channel so he could watch it.

The whole fam after the game

Cute boy with Mommy

He liked sitting on the stairs because he had a clear view. He kept yelling and cheering and UNLV fans all around us gave him high-fives every time BYU did something good.

He kept yelling "go, go" like the whole game.

It was hard to get pictures of his face because he was leaning into it the whole time, much like this.

Sitting on Daddy's lap at the beginning of the game. He was already yelling and cheering at this point, but he wasn't jumping around quite yet. He loved every minute of it!

Mowing the Lawn

We have finally put the finishing touches on our backyard and all that we needed was a push lawnmower (it isn't a very big yard), so we got a used one and set to work on trimming the very tall grass.
Lucas was very excited about it.

He helped push a lot

Sometimes daddy was faster and would steal the mower and run away with a little guy chasing him.

Put your shoulder to the mower

Seriously hard at work.

I haven't taken official "after" pictures yet, but here are some before pictures to give you reference from the backgrounds of the above pictures as to how much work we did back there.
This was while Jared was putting in the concrete edging and after we ripped out all of the stupid plants that were in there. I have worse before pictures and I will take better after pictures soon.

Worms

This post is kinda gross and kinda funny. The dirt here in Vegas is terrible, so we put in a raised garden bed and bought some dirt, but it still needed some organic help in the form of worms. So we mail ordered some worms. When they first got here, we put them in a bucket to help them recover from the mail. These are pics of Lucas looking at a big bucket of several hundred worms.

Brand New

We have been working on several projects around the house (let's face it, who doesn't have a million projects) so I am going to post some pics of one of our most recent achievements. Sometime I will post more, like the backyard (which is SO close to being finished) and our bedroom (we just need to refinish the our new used furniture). I have before pictures, I just haven't finished taking the after pictures yet.

The ceiling fan from our bedroom:
It works great and we didn't want to just throw it out, but it is boring and therefore kinda ugly in our room.

So, we took it down and decided to see if we could disassemble it and paint it. Jared spray painted all of the metal pieces one at a time and I very carefully painted the blades and bought new light shades for it. We took it down on Sunday and had it all dry and reassembled and put back up by Monday night.
Here is the finished (still working) ceiling fan:

We think it's a big improvement!