More Baby-Biking and our yard

The boys have decided it's also fun to make bigger ramps for the baby bikes now, so today after work and before hockey practice we jumped baby bikes for a bit! It's so much fun to watch them fly down the drive and jump those bikes, sometimes even crashing a bit! Mom was a bit worried about the size of the ramp, but I convinced her that the fun is worth the risk in this case!





And finally, a view of our new and much improved front yard! The grass has been coming in well and things are starting to look very green again! Can't wait till next year to make use of our new yard!

Late Night Baby-Biking

So we have a rather unusual pasttime in our house. Our boys have named it "baby-biking," and it's where you hop on one of the plastic three wheelers - the big wheels, the Diego bike, or the garage sale bike, and sail down a hill as fast as you can go! They've managed to work in some spins and turns here and there, sometimes on purpose, sometimes on accident, and tonight they talked me into building a little jump for them! Hope you enjoy the fun time they're having!

Sadness

I got a phone call from a very upset 8 year old this morning, who told me through his crying that mom had "run over George this morning." Our boys are very sad today as our new little kitten ran under the van wheel as they were going to take Ezra to preschool. Poor George is gone, and we'd appreciate your prayers for the boys as we say goodbye to such a fun little kitty.

Carving pumpkins and playing with George

Our fall has definitely been busy, but we found an hour tonight after church, small group, and kids Christmas choir practice to carve our pumpkin and play outside a bit. We had lots of fun digging the guts out of the pumpkin and designing the face, and then I cut it up for us. In the meanwhile Sol, the one kid we KNOW is allergic to cats, spent some time cuddling up to our kitty George. I also threw in a pic Rhonda took last week of George driving the kids car. Pretty talented cat we adopted from Grandma P's litter! Hope your fall is going well!

Sol and his buddy George

Digging out the guts

Ez showing his goofball side

George driving our car

Eli's Star Wars Show

Eli has loved playing with his Star Wars Lego figures, and wanted to put together a short movie for his online audience. What is it with little boys and Star Wars anyhow? Hope you enjoy it, from my getting bigger 6 year old to you!

This was the big weekend - getting our yard all graded off an adding a bunch of dirt to make a much smoother, easier to mow and enjoy type of yard. We began with over a week of cutting down trees, about 8 or 9 in total, plus a myriad of small ones. A lot of chopping wood, and some help from good friends, got us ready to begin this weekend with the grading. My father in law's friend from church brought his bobcat over on Thursday evening and we got started. He was amazing with that thing, turning our yard from something of a dump into a smooth, level place we can plant some new grass and begin to enjoy! He created a nice garden area for Rhonda, leveled out a good spot for me to put my woodpile in the future, and spread a bunch of wood chips under the zip line for safety for the kiddos. He also carved out a spot in back where we hope to put an above ground pool, and is almost done with adding rock to extend our driveway wider and give us extra parking! It's a good chunk of change to get it all done, but it'll sure be well worth it! Oh, and he also set the poles for our bridge across the creek to the fire pit! I'll make sure I get some pics up after we get some grass too!

Me cutting up some firewood

beginning the bobcat work

the boys playing with the downed trees

Grandpa helping Thad drop a tree

adding to the driveway

the new backyardRhonda's garden with the poles in place for the bridge

the front yard

Straight out from our house - MUCH more yard!