The Locker Project

For as long as I can remember I have always thought that having real lockers in the kids' room would be a great idea to store all of their junk. We have looked for years until this last summer when my resourceful and extremely persuasive husband found these school lockers in Page, AZ while he was working there. He talked the guy to selling him 5 lockers like the one you see for $15 per locker. Almost a year later we finally spray painted them and put one in our garage for school bags, coats, balls, shoes, etc. Each one of the boys also has one in their room to organize their clothes and shoes. Oh, we gave the other one to Grandma because she liked them so much. We just won't talk about how we got them all the way upstairs because they are very HEAVY. Here are the before and after pictures.

Loving Arizona??? Nah....Just Getting Used To It!

This last weekend we got to tour the job site that Stuart is currently working on. They are building an addition to our local Loop 303 Highway. This includes brand new roadway and over 15 bridges! There are cactus all over in the way of where they will be building the road. They actually take the cactus and transplant them in a nursery and when the job is complete they bring them back and replant them. This one particular cactus was so huge, just look at how small the kids are compared to it! The boys were especially excited to get to stand on all of the equipment! Check out FaceBook for more pictures!

Pine Wood Derby 2009

The boys had a lot of fun at the Pine Wood Derby. There were 19 cars entered in the race! After fine-tuning the wheels of their cars with graphite Tanner ended up taking 2nd Place. Coleman was voted "Best Design". Best of all they had a great time! Coleman's car is the silver one with blue stripes. Tanner's car is Red with yellow flames. By the way...the object on the front of Coleman's car is bullet lead... :)