the Arboretum

Today was such a beautiful day. By 8am I decided it was not going to be a stay inside the house, all day, kind of day. Taking advantage of the beautiful non-life threatening heat, I decided to take the boys to the Arboretum. The weather was perfect when we arrived. Mostly sunny with high clouds and around 80F. We strolled around exploring some gardens we had not ventured into before and were surprised when we happened across some story book play houses we had not seen before.

chasing black birds...

this little squirrel was very playful and I'm convinced was trying to get us to feed him...

from the pages of Peter Pan...

from the pages of Eragon...

from the pages of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish...

from the pages of Alice In Wonderland...

Having a picnic lunch.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Ice Cream

The weather has cooled off considerably. Last week it was 102F + nearly every day with heat indexes around 105F. Today, however, only got into the upper 80's. Woo-Hoo!!!

But hot or cold, we LOVE ice cream. Notice that you can't actually see the ice cream in any of the pictures. The boys inhaled them before I could grab the camera.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Photos from the Fourth

L visits his first fireworks stand

Lil C enjoys a fresh plum purchased at the Farmers Market before the parade starts
L enjoys fresh honey sticks

The parade starts...

really not a lot of excitement at a small town 4th of July parade...

back at home lighting the sparklers he got at the fireworks stand

Lil C was not allowed to hold or go near the sparklers, so he decided to dump out all the chalk...

of course once they were all dumped on the ground he was on to better things.

Hot in the face, riding his broom broom in the cuk de sac.

Independence

For those of you in the States, have a Happy 4th of July!

Friday, July 3, 2009

Surprise!!!

L has been a really good kid lately. An awesome son and big brother, so I knew I had to do something special for him. I called up a friend of mine whose sons are school friends of L and we made arrangements to meet up this week at a local family entertainment venue.

My neighbor also allowed us to take along her son for the fun. L had no idea what was in store though. We told him that our neighbors’ son was coming with us to go to the store to pick up something for his mom. When we got to the place L was floored! He couldn't believe that we tricked him and that his friend was in on the trick. When he saw his buddies from school show up he was over the moon with excitement.

Laser tag was what we went for, Go Karts and Arcade games were an added bonus. After it all we stuck around to have dinner at their restaurant.
What a great way to break up a boring week. :)

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Playdate

Today we hosted a playdate. We made July 4th inspired crafts and ate some yummy snacks.

Corbin was happy to have some of his friends come over.

Cash

Sarah

Braden

Lil C holding a star.

L had zero fun. All the kids were too little. So he hung out in the downstairs closet which has been transformed into a place where he can escape Lil C. C said we should move his bed in here and then he can be like Harry Potter. LOL. ;) But we won't of course.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009