Fabulous weekend

what a great weekend. Fun for all. Beautiful weather. Daddy and Pop framed in the garage - the kids oversaw the construction.

We camped with Bubba and Pop and cousin Blakelyn in our backyard. WE LOVE OUR YARD!!! - we even have a fire pit in the back for roasting marshmallows. You can't even really see the house from where the tent is - well if the lights are off. who needs to drive anywhere?

There was even a petting zoo at the ASU farm campus. Linden's favorite were the Piggies.
And by the end of it we were all as exhausted as these two. Note the skinned shin, knee, face, arms etc. Little boys and summer.

"Tickled Pink"

So John is so in love with this block wall that got built today - the start of the eventual wall to make our garage workshop out of half of our car port. Note the family portrait in the fore-ground also by John.

Letter shower

He loves them so much he even baths in them.

Pruning our crazy ivy

Linden (and Evie) have been helping me prune our unruly ivy. I use clippers and Linden uses his new purple scissors. We've found some amazing rocks under there - huge fossils and petrified wood. We've been told that two owners ago had this amazing rocks garden of collected rocks - so maybe there is more to be uncovered.

see they do like each other.

Found a back pack, found a back pack, found a back pack. . .

. . . in the garage. we unwraped it, to get strapped in, so that I could take a ride. (you know . . to the tune of Clementine)

I really got it out for Evie to ride around in while Linden and I prune the ivy and explore the yard but apparently he remebered it fondly.

Ready. Set. Escape.

we might need a better lock on the back screen door.

The perfect hiding spot

just where you would want your two year old to hang out - at the bottom of the ventilation window to the crawl space to our house - about 2 feet deep and filled with mud, sticks, leaves spiders, lead paint chips etc. But he fits perfectly - I'll give him that.