The Day to Day Stuff

Six months seem to go by fast in regards to dental time. I feel like the boys just had a check-up. This is the first time they attempted x-rays: got some on J but not on W.
W getting his cleaning:

Inspecting the goods:

Not liking the whole thing...here comes "the scowl"

J chose to accessorize for his cleaning:


But they both did great and got a clean bill of health-dental health that is.
As for our health in general, ours has been horrible the last week or so. J and W fighting colds, then W caught the stomach flu, then I caught it three days later and it completely wiped me out. Just praying that it alludes Geoff and J. This is the third round for the stomach flu around town and I thought we had avoided it.
I had my second parent/teacher conference at the boys' preschool. Their teacher amazes me. She had three hand-written pages on each of them. And they always are doing fun projects. This week they brought home lots of projects they had been working on for Easter: wheat grass they grew, Easter bags they made, plastic eggs they found at an egg hunt at school, hard-boiled eggs they dyed, and a craft project with colored rice glued onto an egg. I got W to hold still for a moment with his bag that he wrote his name on. Love the expression.

And now his "grumpy" face:

Geoff has been busy taking a Quickbooks class in the evenings after work and putting up our fence in any free time he has. Katy inspecting the work:

Is good.

Of course when we took the chicken wire fence down to start putting the chain link up, the dogs got skunked. Again. The fourth time since we moved here. Katy just knows where to find them and just can't leave them alone apparently. Soon Geoff will be able to go into the de-skunking business professionally from all of the practice!

Now we are back to the dreaded task of researching blinds for our great room. The sun is out longer and we can't go another summer here without something for our big windows. We were looking at Hunter Douglas Architella shades...but the more we think about it...
...we are now considering something like this:


where you can have the shades open even when they are up? Of course they cost more so that will probably be the deciding factor. I hate making such a big decision on a little sample...but wondering if any of you have shades similar to either of these or know someone who does. Curious what the pros/cons are.
Hope you all have a nice Easter. I need to go make some rolls now for an Easter brunch tomorrow. Enjoy!