What a great weekend we had!  It has rained here the last 3 days in a row and has been completely cloudy, but the sun finally came out today.  We ordered some plants from Sunset Valley and brought them over to Larry and Lea's house to get their lush backyard landscape started.  Everyone pitched in to help and we had about twenty plants in the ground in an hour.  It helped that the ground was nice and moist from all of the rain.  Its amazing how the backyard already looks so much nicer with just these few plants.  It feels great to help my in-laws to have an enjoyable environment to spend their time in.  Pretty soon we will complete their patio and pergola so we can really sit out and enjoy the scenery.  

Family life has been a lot of fun lately with relatively little stress.We went out to enjoy a family dinner at Chuy's followed by ice cream at Austin Scoops.  For the last few weeks, Benjamin had been asking me when we were going to these places, so I thought we would knock them both out on the same night.  I remarked to Lance how easy it is for us now to go out with the two boys and it is even becoming enjoyable.  Leave it to us to feel the need to challenge ourselves once things become manageable.  I'm thinking we should try to enjoy the next three months as much as possible before Sawyer comes along and we adjust all over again to a new challenge when out as a family.  Right now things are about as good as they could get.  Although I know that life will be difficult soon, I have learned to have faith that we will soon adjust again and be back in the groove, a new groove.  I just can't imagine being more blessed in this life.  Thank you, Lord.