June 23

One of the things that Riley loves these days is using stickers. He's just gotten the hang of peeling them off of the sheet himself, and he will just fill a sheet of paper with stickers and then color a picture to go with it. Here he's hard at work at today's creation.

Daily patio update:
So when we started this project we were thinking that the buckling was due to a tree root or animals burrowing underneath the patio. Today we found the real answer - poor drainage! Seth had dug down to the dirt layer today and found that the soil is graded towards the house (instead of away from it), there are no weep holes in the foundation of the walls around the patio, so when it rains or snows, there's no place for the water to go. Seth needs the ground to be dry to move on with the project, so he's covered up the entire patio before leaving today (since we were expecting rain... again!).