Weekend Projects

Okay, I know that I am very behind on posting.  I have so many great stories and pictures to share with everyone.  Unfortunately, both girls and I have been very sick.  The good news is we are all much better now and I am ready to catch everyone up!  For time sake I am posting a quickie at the moment, but will come back with more later.  I have such a hard time sitting and typing when the girls and their father are enjoying the outdoors or anything for that matter.  I should be enjoying this time that I have to myself while he is entertaining them, but I do not want to miss anything.  In fact, I was watching them play outside while I sat at the breakfast nook table and realized they were “rescuing” another “baby animal”, which was really a dragonfly.  This comes from their love of the Wonder Pets TV show.  The pool and screened enclosure provides numerous opportunities for them to play rescue.  I will have to do a separate post with pictures of their rescues….My point is that it is hard for me to concentrate on blogging when all of this fun activity is going on outside, so as I said before this is a quickie.

This past weekend “daddy” was very busy building a surprise for the girls.  Some of you may know, with Kelly about to graduate we are in sort of “limbo” at this point in our lives, not knowing if we will be moving for work or staying here etc..it makes home projects difficult because we do not want to waste the time and money if we are moving.  Regardless, we decided the girls needed something fun to play on in the backyard so we invested in a small swing set and “Daddy” put it together this past weekend, with a lot of help from the girls.

Wait, the screw should go right there.

Let us mark these boards for you, okay, start cutting right here.

It's my turn to hammer.

Got to get these screws in order

Look Daddy it's a big "A".

See my balancing act?

Who knew how much fun a slide could be before installation

I am going to balance on this big"V".

What are you doing Daddy? What are you doing Daddy?.....

How much fun to be in the yard all day long!?

Wait Daddy, let me tighten this one bolt and we'll be done.

Yippee the slide is finally done

I want to go"super fast!"

We can fly like SUPERMAN!

Once the swing set was complete, the girls helped “Daddy” plant pansies and petunias in the front yard.  Their friend Claire stopped by when she saw the girls in the yard and she helped them also (unfortunately, she got her pretty dress all dirty, but her mommy didn’t seem to mind).  The girls could not resist picking the flowers off the plants, so there is a lot of green planted, but they will come back, hopefully spread and be beautiful.

Samantha and Daddy preping

more prep by Scarlet

Claire even helped prep

Gotta rake out these roots from the last plants

Whew, this is hard work, I need a break.

Cool! We found a worm!

Let me pick it up, no let me..

Here's one Daddy

Time for water.

we sure love the watering part