Lowes, Lowes, and more Lowes

FRIDAY
6 p.m. Off to LOWES to shop for flowers
6:15 p.m. Jasper P has fun going for a ride on the carts in the garden area
6:20 p.m. Mom and Dad are not looking, and Jasper takes a nosedive off the cart into the cement!!!
6:30 p.m. We get Jasper calmed down and he's back on the cart riding again, having fun.

SATURDAY
7 p.m. Off to LOWES
7:15 p.m. We decide not to put Jasper back on the carts in the garden area
7:30 p.m. Adam gets supplies for landscaping projects in backyard

SUNDAY
9:00 a.m. Head to LOWES for more supplies for landscapaing project
2:00 p.m. Landscaping project completed
2:05 p.m. Jasper very happy our LOWES trips are completed for the weekend.

Somewhere between our weekend of LOWES madness, we took time to head to Bill Borseth's SE Polk graduation party (family picture before party in this post) and have a nice BBQ with Grandma Vicki. And Adam completed two really great landscaping projects in the back - great work, honey! Oh, and Jasper still has kind of an "egg" on his forehead from his fall, but he didn't let it stop him at all this weekend!

Tractor Ride

Just like Cozmo, Jasper already LOVES being out on the farm. Gramps took him for a tractor ride, and I think he could have stayed on the tractor forever - he loved it! Jasper's cousin, Sydney, will definitely have to show him the ropes of the farm when he's old enough!

Memorial Day

We visited Grandpa Rick's grave site on Memorial Day. We made flower pots with Jasper's hand print on them to put on Grandpa Rick's and our other family's graves that were out in Waukee. Jasper tried helping with the planting of the flowers in the pots, but mom had to take over - he couldn't quite understand that we were keeping the dirt in the pots and now throwing it around :)

We then had a BBQ over at Grandma Vicki's house with Jason and Noah and even had a suprise guest - cousin Perri and Sandy - showed up to play with us a little bit.

Bedtime Fun

We started a new bedtime routine with Jasper P, which includes reading books before we drift off to sleep. This night, he was a little crazy-man and decided he wanted to 'read' books on his own, get up in his rocking chair with his milk, and laugh at us whenever we tried to pick him up to sit him on our lap and read to him...silly boy!

First Trip Out of State

We made our way on Sunday out to Nebraska to visit the Henrys (rick, shani, isaac, and emma). They remodeled an old one-room schoolhouse and made it into a beautiful home! We left Sunday morning to rode trip it with grams and Great Grandma Doris. At the Henrys, we met up with Becky and Larry, the Wilders, and Shani's parents. We enjoyed lunch, opened presents for isaac's 8th birthday and had fun playing outside.

This was Jasper's first long rode trip and first time out of Iowa. He did really good - slept for half of the trip there. And did not sleep a wink on the way home, but kept occupied with snacks and games with grams. Our next test - a road trip to Colorado in August for Jill Henry's wedding!

A Play Date

Jasper and I met Isabelle and her mom, Melissa (Kiene) Meyer at the Park last weekend. It was a little hotter than we thought it was going to be (87 in mid-May) As you can see on their faces, they were sweaty - it's hard work playing!

Jasper fell a couple times and got a scraped knee - I was not prepared. Note to self: need to get first aid kit for the car. And even though Isabelle and I walked to the top of the "very big" slide, I still couldn't convince her that it was "not scary" to go down. We then headed to DQ for some ice cream. Jasper and I shared a cherry-dip cone - yum! Melissa is about 2 weeks away from welcoming their new baby boy to the world - we're so excited for them!

Walking Brother Cozmo

Jasper has become quite fond of our walks with brother, Cozmo. This time, he even held on to the leash as if he was ready to control Cozmo, "Come on Coz, let's go for a walk!" (yeah, right). Although Jasper does a great job of sitting in the stroller while we walk and laughing if Cozmo chases a fly, hacks up something that he found along our walking route, or chases pine cones.

Jasper has also started to give cozmo a treat to make him go in his kennel in the morning before we leave for work/daycare. It's too cute!