Home Inspection/Yardwork

Our caseworker came by to inspect our house for the adoption approval. It was good to see her again and get some more ideas of what to do for our house. I get a kick out of learning about baby safety. It's a whole new world for us in some sense, but most of it is just common sense. We have the carbon monoxide detector to install, baby gate, outlet covers, door handle covers, fire extinguisher, and even some cabinet locks to install. We still need to get the window well covers, but we know where we'll buy them. It will just take about a month to save up.

Saturday we ended up working on the yard and other outside projects. I moved about 6 wheel barrow loads of dirt to different areas of the lawn and garden, sprayed some weeds, and even fixed the drain from our roof. Adrienne sprayed even more weeds and did a bunch of laundry. It's always fun to work outside, but it was sure a hot day. Oh, we also installed some brackets in the garage to hang our bikes on (it was like an oven in there).

I forgot to mention a fun night a couple weeks ago. We went with our friends Nate and Liz to "Steel Days" in American Fork. There was an outdoor concert that went on for 3-4 hours and finished with 45 minutes of fireworks. The concert was neat. We got there part way through and A Capella group. There were six guys and it was amazing the full sound that they created. It sounded like they had bass guitars and a drum set with them, but it was all done by voice. The last band was the best though. It was a Beatles tribute band called "The Return". Each member of the band sang EXACTLY like their Beatles counterpart. Paul sounded like Paul, John like John, etc. It sounded just like it was the Beatles 40 years ago. If anyone is interested, you can find them on YouTube. We couldn't stay for the whole fireworks because Nate and Liz had to pick up their kids...but it's probably the best show in the state. You are so close to the fireworks that they take up the whole sky. They've got great patriotic music in the background and the show seemingly goes on forever getting bigger and grander throughout.