weekend warriors

with the warming weather, we are back to yardwork.

On Saturday morning I went to an early class at the gym.  After, we made breakfast and husband took A to set out on some short errands that ended up taking most of the afternoon.  Meanwhile, L and E helped me in the yard.  We collected buckets full of rock to remove it from our topsoil in preparation for seed.  It was tiresome and fairly boring but the girls were good sports and made it fun.  We worked most of the day (and I have a healthy sunburn to prove it), joined by husband in the later afternoon.  We moved rock, moved dirt, moved more rock, etc.  We got a bid on concrete curbing for the flower beds and started building the garden boxes.  As evening came we called it a day, ready to spend some fun time with our girls who had been begging for a family trip to the pool.

We picked up dinner on the way and the girls dove eagerly into the water.  We joined some friends there and the girls raced around with them.  As always, they did laps on the waterslide and we bounced around to the hottub.  The new adventure was L and A finally braved the diving board!  A had tried the past few trips but chickened out.  But this time she made it in, followed quickly by L, and they eagerly raced back in line several times.

We got home past bedtime.  Daddy got the girls showered and into pajamas while I prepared snacks of hot chocolate, watermelon and cookies.  We ate, we cuddled and eventually, we slept.