Water Fun, Strawberry Pickin' and Skinned Knees at the Park

Bullet point list of our last two days:

Yesterday
*  fun with the pool, home depot bucket and hose. i'm not sure i want to see our water bill for this month.

Today
*  strawberry picking.  i think the novelty has worn out, they were much more excited about it last year. abby hung in there and helped pick, but H&G gave up after about 10 minutes and then proceeded to whine for the next 1/2 hour.  i wasn't finished picking, but i couldn't take much more of the noise noise noise (nor could our unfortunate picking neighbors, i'm sure), so we packed up and left.  couldn't get a picture of them to save my life. this is as good as it was going to get.

* park after strawberry picking. griff fell within 10 seconds of getting there and it was downhill from there. we hung in for about a 1/2 hour, but griff was not having much fun. we packed up and headed home for a hotdog picnic in the backyard....and finally griff forgot about his knees.

Hannah's Room

Hannah has kind of gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to her bedroom. It is by the far the smallest, and her closet is just awful (in other words, unbelievably small).  I had had enough of the thousands of books scattered all over her floor and clothes thrown all over her closet floor because there was no room to hang anything. So.....enter Mike and his tools :-)

I gave him a picture of some wall bookcases and asked him if he could build them for less than $20.....he came through, and well under budget at $9.00 (love the scrap wood pile at Home Depot).  After a bit of paint, he put them up and I couldn't love them more. Hannah likes them, too.

He also installed additional hanging racks in her closet, and took off her closet door. Completely opened it up and almost doubled the space in there. I didn't like having just an open closet, so I reused a piece of wood I had, painted it, and hung some girly fabric from it....Tada and Hannah loves her princess closet.

and the "extra" chandy from our basement project....found a great home in Hannah's bedroom :-)

Ice Cream with Miss Rogers

Abby and her first grade teacher Miss Rogers spent the afternoon together yesterday, having ice cream and a trolly ride around one of the area lakes.  We won it for Abby at her school action.  Abby was THRILLED to spend the afternoon with Miss Rogers. She loves her and is having a hard time not seeing her every day, so this was very exciting for her.  

We are off to swim lessons this morning and then the library. Tomorrow is strawberry picking....will be sure to post pictures!

It's Been a Wet June

I think we are on day 3,476 of rain.....seriously, I'm not sure it can be any more wet here.  We are hoping the sun will come out tomorrow and we will get out of this funk.  We couldn't take it any more today, so even though it was raining, and at times thundering, we were out.  Abby's friend and next door neighbor had apparently had enough too, as she was out in it with us!  We had all the necessities out with us: the infamous orange Home Depot bucket, squirt guns, bikes and bubbles :-)

they were roofing the new house next door (in the rain) and paper and crap kept blowing into our yard. Hannah picked this up and gave me a look like, what the heck?

what happens if i throw my sandles in the bucket....

squirt gun tag

um, my squirt gun is a bit wonky :-)

Guess......

who got her hair cut this afternoon?

ABBY!!!!!!!!!!  And she looks fantastic, don't ya think? She can't stop swooshing it! Now she looks like a 2nd grader :-)

Coolest Kids on the Block

Abby and her friends rode to school in style this morning - in a Fire Truck!  We won it at her school's auction a few weeks ago.  The kids were THRILLED. Enjoy the pictures!

BEACH!

We found ourselves at the beach on Memorial Day. The kids loved it, and they kept repeating how much fun they were having.  It was a bit chilly, but it didn't slow anyone down and they spent most of the time in the water splashing around.  We are ready for summer here...bring on the hot weather!