Fun in the backyard!

Welcome to summer! It has been a wonderful warm week and we've been busy outside. Setting up the sand was a good idea. Although the boys now come into the house with sand in the strangest of places.



Big E has been busy building a patio area in the backyard. We are going to set up a gazebo (donated by Big E's parents) once the stones once it's finished. In the mean time the boys have enjoyed playing in the sand and pretending to move the stones. :)




Here are pictures of our new-to-us tent trailer. We are excited to have found one and looking forward to using it next weekend for the ward camp. It's an oldy but a goody and Little Dude consistently calls it "the wagon". He is loving ownership of a HUGE wagon...heehee. Other than dusting and some minor screen repairs everything is in pretty good condition considering it is older than I am!

TED=Technology, Entertainment, Design

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/66

Ok...a note about the link above. I don't know if I can properly explain it, but this is a 19 minute presentation given by Sir Ken Robinson. It is worth the downloading time (if you don't have high speed). One blogging friend described it thus: "It's like stand-up comedy combined with information sure to provoke some excellent conversation." She is SO right. Enjoy!

I feel like it's been forever!! :) Big E is busy watching Hockey Finals and I thought I would be productive and get another post out. How do bloggers do it who get on each and every day to type a post?? I haven't a clue and I have no designs on trying to become like them. Here are some pictures of us on some sunny April days. We took advantage by going for walks. Recently our town has invested in walking paths and we have been exploring the paths behind our house that go to the parks and behind the trees.



Here is a video of Munchkin walking. He is becoming quite adept at walking and running. He loves to run with his arms behind him...kinda like he's flying. Too funny to watch!! He loves it if you growl and chase him...hence the reason you hear me doing so! Sorry about the dirt on the lense...I'm going to do something about that...soon....I think....I hope...I promise!!



On Holiday Monday we went to a local water park (indoor). They have a wave pool, 2 kids play areas, 2 large hot tubs, 1 big waterslide and one waterfall/waterslide, 1 lazy river. It's a lovely place to spend a few hours. I meant to take lots of pictures...but forgot the camera in the bag. So, I got one picture of Little Dude and a video of him counting. Right at the end he tells Big E, "You hide, I count." :) Hide and Seek is his new favourite game.




We ate a lovely dinner on our holiday and it included devilled eggs. Several weeks ago I received a devilled egg plate that used to belong to my great grandmother on my mother's side of the family. (Thank you Uncle J!) So we used it and it was so cute I had to take a picture of it...even thought Big E chuckled at me taking a picture of eggs! If you look closely you can see to little yellow chicks (OR just look at the close-up) under each wing of the hen in the middle. Those are the salt and pepper shakers. Honestly, where do you find things like that these days?!? Here are those pics....



And after our lovely holiday was over the weather turned on us with a vengeance. We went from a balmy 22+ to SNOW. That's right, snow. And not just a bit...but it snowed ALL day. It was fine and then the morning had snow and it stayed until this morning. When I left for work this is what it looked like: And remember this is after a full day and night of snowing. I figured it would snow and then be gone before the next day.


When I got home after work it was lovely and green. Still chilly but at least it still looked like spring was one its' way.