I Love Pasta!

Good thing Mom put a bib on me or I would have been a mess!

Our Project

I don't want to make excuses for not blogging the last month, but Joel and I have been crazy busy around here.  We have lived in our house for almost 4 years now and have been talking about screening in our back porch since we toured the house the very first time.  We also spent a weekend at my brother's house and saw his new patio stones and thought, "Wow, this would look good on our patio!"  So we decided we have talked about it long enough, and did it!  We recruited some help from great friends (who work for basically nothing) and started on one rainy day.  With a great deadline of the 4th of July where we have lots of house guests, we worked our toochies off!  Poor Charlie was straight up ignored for 2 weeks!  But we do think all the hard work paid off, you be the judge.

And this is what Charlie was up to while we worked! :)

$4195 and 7th Place!

What started out as a little idea at Christmas turned into 28 people in bright orange shirts walking for Autism Speaks!  Our group raised $4195 and ended in 7th place overall.  And just to let you know we weren't 7th out of 10 or something like that, there were over 100 teams!  It was overwhelming and exciting at the same time.  It just amazed us.  We had no idea it would turn into this.  I can't even begin to explain what it felt like.  I can't begin to express our thanks to all who support us.  It really put it all into perspective when you looked around and saw the 1000's of people who are affected by this that were walking that day.  I am so proud of our team.  So proud of our family.  And so very proud of my two little boys!  Thank you everyone!

Our Family

The Majority of Our Family :)

Team Tyson & Charlie!