Beautiful spring

Kim played a game with the kids that used glass beads as markers/game pieces and ever since Nixon has been obsessed with his little glass bead

Artistic little girl

I had a dinner with the Supreme Court last week and this is the picture I sent Kim and the Kids in lieu of spending any time with them that evening

An extra child helps mess things up much quicker. Nice jacket Nixon ;)

There weren't a lot of kids at the library this last activity so Nixon was right up front getting into all of the action

Happy boy

They look like such calm children...

"Let's go mom"

It was 29 degrees Celsius (84 F) on Friday so Kim took the kids to the beach

The water is still really low because they have all of the damn gates open, so it was a little muddy. Good thing Nixon insisted on wearing rain boots

Friday evening Kim and I had friends watch the kids and we went on a date! We packed dinner and hiked Tubbs Hill and ate next to the lake

It was really beautiful and peaceful

Then we went to Dockside and shared a Reese Gooey. Soooo amazing!

Home Depot had a spring black Friday sale this last weekend, which means really cheap mulch. We bought 38 bags of mulch (2 cu. feet and 56 lbs each) and spread that out on a few places in our yard

This is what our back "forest" area looked like when we first bought our house. There was no separation between the tree area and the yard. There was some rock in the trees that always got scattered in the grass and it was a little overgrown and ugly.

Another view of the forest area this February

I have spent lots of time building a retaining wall around the forest area, moved lots of dirt in that area to build it up, added fabric to stop weeds, and this weekend covered it in mulch. We are happy with the finished result

We found this huge slug on our back step on Saturday morning

Lyza was fascinated

We did a little shopping together Saturday morning after we got some free shrubs from the City. What a fun shopping cart

Lyza and Nixon helped me plant our new hydrangeas

While I was at Home Depot with Lyza getting mulch Kim and Nixon washed windows outside and washed our patio chairs

He loves bubbles

Lyza asked to run around through the sprinklers. How could we say no?

What a goof

We had our first bon fire of the year

s'mores!

That face says it all

Take care