Nilsson News

Happy Easter and happy Spring!  This has been a very textbook kind of spring which is actually very rare.  The weather has been warming up very gradually with rainy days interspersed her and there.  The grass is turning green, our tulip and daffodils are ready to burst, there are buds on the trees and...there is watermelon planted in the garden!  Yesterday, Emerson helped me plant 27 watermelon plants and Eliza helped me plant our onions and purple cauliflower. 
Garrett has been very productive and was able to really clean out our sad excuse of a willow tree.  It has never been pruned right and there were huge portions that were just dead.  We hadn't taken care of it until now because we couldn't figure out how to access the specific branches.  Finally, Garrett was able to get up into the tree with his chainsaw and he went to town!  The tree has a new lease on life now! 
Earlier in the week, the boys helped me rip out our kitchen linoleum flooring in preparation to ripping out and re-configuring some cabinets.  That's what Garrett worked on yesterday afternoon and it has opened up the kitchen quite amazingly.  There is now space for our dining room table!  It is still a work in progress so I can show you the progress pictures.

 This cupboard stuck out into the middle of the floor and really took up a lot of space so we wanted to detach it and move it against the wall.

 Hard working boys!

Ta dah!  This thing was very securely attached to the floor.  Can you see those nails?  After this was removed, it revealed how many layers of flooring there really are.  Under our linoleum there is a nice plywood underlayment, under that there are two more layers of linoleum followed by a particle board subfloor.  That's one solid floor!  Hopefully next week we will have some finished photos...

We had some fun Easter festivities with the Harts yesterday.  Egg hunts are really so much fun and you should all mark your calendars for next year so you can join us!  The kids were all great hunters and while they were opening their treasures, the adults played a game of corn hole.  Good times!

Addy sang a beautiful song with her beehive class during sacrament meeting today.  It was quite lovely.  It is amazing how quickly kids grow up.  I didn't believe it went by very quickly when the kids were quite a bit younger and I was immensely sleep deprived (ok. So I'm still very sleep deprived.  Can't seem to figure that one out) and only changed diapers, but things have definitely sped up.  Especially being a member of the church, your kids now grow up over night!  Gotta love life!  Sure love you family!