Emma on her bike!

We have been so busy painting the back of our house, a deep gray, that it is so nice to just take a step back from that project and enjoy the kids! Anything to keep our minds off the devastation from our Cedar River flooding last week. We were very fortunate that our home was not flooded. But it is so hard to see all the devastation in our city. We live just a few miles from where the river flooded so it is very close to home for us. We were outside Sat. evening and we could smell the sour water when the wind would hit in a certain direction. I can't even imagine the sadness the homeowners must feel. But there were very few people that were hurt which is just amazing and everything that was destroyed can and will be rebuilt. We had a very wet and snowy winter as you can see on our blog so all the rain we have had over the last few weeks just had no place to go. The historical Paramount Theater where Emma had her dance recital was flooded. I have a pic on the blog of her standing in front of it. The good news is that neighbors are helping neighbors and this disaster has brought our community closer.

We have also been working on landscaping our back yard which is turning out to be a bigger and more expensive project than we expected. We bought the kids a 15 ft trampoline and they love it. Of course we had to get the enclosure with it but it has turned out to be a great investment! The kids seem to be in bed early these days...