Working Together!

Last Saturday our whole family worked in the yard together. It really was a lot of fun, thanks to Brock. He is pretty creative when it comes to motivating our kids to work. Brock and I raked the majority of the yard, creating about 40 small piles of leaves. This may not sound like much, but believe me, it was a lot of work. Try not to pay attention to our poor lawn. It has problems. Mostly, too many trees shading it all year around. We are trying to improve it!

Brock then partnered us all up. I was with Matthew, Brock was with Ben, and Jessica and Lauren worked together. He said ready...set...go.. and we had to bag 10 piles of leaves as fast as we could. It was pretty competitive. Jessica and Lauren were moving faster than I've ever seen them move. The race was on. Matthew wasn't very happy with me when I left him to go get the camera. It's important to me to document our family working together. Many of you know how hard it is to get your own kids to work. This was a memory worth capturing.

After we finished all the raking and bagging, we played badminton. It was so much fun! I nearly beat Brock. I tried so hard to win! We will defintely have a re-match.