Weekend Outside

*** Long post... including a bazzillion pictures ***

We loaded up the rock-crawler and Chloe's toy stroller on Friday to take their "kittens" for a ride around the block
(Chloe's are in the basket underneath... they're safer there.)They had a little off-roading adventure over mud piles, gravel pits,tree roots and huge rocks... all this found on the city sidewalks ;-) Spring clean-up anyone?
Stopped to spy some new crocuses growing...
... then roll down their favorite hill.

We took a walking break to just lay down on the warm grass and look at clouds for a bit (Chloe invited me: "Mom, will you ray wiff me and rook at the crouds??") The sun felt so wonderful...

Then we sat very quietly and watched birds hop and hunt for worms and listened to them sing -- our neighborhood seemed peaceful for that fifteen minutes. It was very nice!

Chloe found an ant and just layed right down on the sidewalk to watch it. Evan and I joined her and we ended up digging under old crusty leaf piles to try to find more bugs. We completely lost track of time and after about a half hour, got on our way again with walking.

Back home after an hour and a half "walk" around our block... we were hungry. Evan thought it was a perfect day to eat outside.
He was right. Everybody smile with food in your mouth....

It was one of those days where putting Chloe down for a nap just didn't seem right, so we went to Frontier Park instead :-)

After a few trips down the slides, it was off to the trails to explore and do some real climbing.
Evan climbed every cliff he could find. His shoe fell off in a swampy patch at the bottom of one. He thought that was pretty funny. Chloe actually did these hills too, but since she was with Todd most of the time she's not in any of my climbing pictures.

There is a creek through the park that the kids are always fascinated by. Evan threw about 50 rocks into the creek......while Chloe dug in the sand.

On our way out, Evan grabbed up a stick and found this "lovely relaxing place" to go fishing. ??? He was pretty upset that he put his stick in "four times and couldn't even catch a minnow."
He decided the stick was a keeper anyway.
We were all so tired after being outside for five straight hours. Ahhhh, spring.

Saturday was another day of nice weather. The rock patch in the back yard is where Evan hangs out.
Chloe is his driving buddy now.We didn't even make it all the way around the block. She kept stopping to lay on her truck. I wish I had gotten a picture of it. She hadn't napped in days.
We had a visit with Gramma in the afternoon, and then Sunday was filled with church and a family gathering at my mom's. I'm so glad we at least got to breathe so many hours of fresh spring air before the snow came again (last night).
Today, Chloe is going to sleep :-)

Posted by Bree