Fun Times

Cooper likes to climb in the crib with Aly if he gets to her before we do. Aly likes to eat her crib.

Playing at my sister's house. She invited us over for cupcakes and ice cream. Who wants to ride in the car when you can hang on for dear life on top?

 Alyson couldn't reach the floor very well so the boys were more than willing to push her around the room.

And of course, some more landscaping. We rented a friend's bobcat and did a lot more work in the few hours we had it than we could have in an entire day with shovels.

 The boys loved watching daddy in the tractor. He went to get it that morning without telling them where he was going. When he rode around the corner in it (they live a couple streets over so he just drove it here) they were pretty excited. While Jared stopped for lunch the boys hopped in the bucket and Cooper said "take a picture mom!" like he does with everything lately. So of course I did.

 The boys have LOVED the dirt pile in our front yard. They drive their toys all over it. They take their toy four-wheeler and go "rock crawling" like daddy's Blazer.

 Jared leveled out the ground to the left in the picture (that ground was extremely hard, too hard for me to do with the shovel) and then did a little bit along the front. We already had it cleared in the front where we'll put bushes but he cleared some more where the boulders will be going for our wall.

He also brought dirt from a pile in our backyard from when our neighbors leveled their yard and brought some boulders we found in back out to the front to use once we start building our retaining wall. Some of our boulders, the biggest ones in fact, are coming from a couple streets over (across the street from the bobcat owner). The girl's dad has equipment to load the boulders in a dump truck and then they'll bring them to our house, hopefully this week. Once they do that we can finish building the wall and level out the dirt. Anyone know of some free railroad ties or anything else we can use to build some steps? We're going to put some by that basement window on the left so you don't have to jump off the wall to go around that side of the house.