The Home Depot

Home Depot has:

• FREE hands-on workshops designed for children ages 5 - 12 offered the 1st Saturday of every month at all The Home Depot stores between 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.• Workshops teach children do-it-yourself skills, tool safety and instill a sense of pride and accomplishment.• All kids get to keep their craft and receive a FREE Kids Workshop Apron, commemorative pin and certificate of achievement.

It wasn't the 1st Saturday of the month but there was a party so we

stopped by. They had the local fire department there with their trucks.

Free Hot Dogs and water! Free building, games and prizes

for all ages.

Mason loved the inside of the fire truck.

He also got a football painted on his cheek. This was after he built his sailboatand then painted it blue followed by a topcoat of red.

Landon chose a birdhouse to build and paint.

Meghan also chose the birdhouse to build and

paint Mom's favorite color, purple!

Hennepin County Fair

How to cool off on a hot summer day

and keep hydrated at the same time!

Weekend

My find on my run... That time of year,

Turtles laying their eggs.

I have to say, it scared the heck out of me. About 1 mile prior

to this I had a field mouse running along side of me. EEK!

First we get some fire wood.

Then we get a toasty fire going....

Find a perfect stick for roasting....

Pull off the branches and sharpen the stick

to get the Marshmallows on.....

or not....

Get the Marshmallows, have a seat, and

just start eating all of them.

not sharing with onyone...

still not sharing his chocolate marshmallows.

Either way, it was a fun time for

everyone until we had to go in to sleep.

Monkeys / Spiders / Dinosaurs

Today we went to Elm Creek Park Reserve to get out of the house,

run off some energy and do some climbing.

Until this year, Mason was pretty skeptical of what he could do.

This year... NO FEAR!!

Mason rock climbingMason and Meghan on the spider web Meghan Saucer swinging

Mason was soo proud to get to the top with the

big kids. I was very surprised.. Never even had a

issue getting down :)

Way high !!

Mason riding dino bones

Family photo (sorry, this is as good as it gets)

Landon crawling under the Dinosaur bones

Mason rope climbing

Meghan rope climbing

Landon going down a "scary" slide.

Landon is going to try the easy way down.

BIG BOY!!

Skate boarding

Pool Time

Summer is here and so is the warm weather.

Landon tries out Mason's jet ski.It was all fun until someone got him wet! Laughing in the water.

We will now spend almost every single night after daycare outside in the pool. The kids can't get enough of it and it gives Mom time to sit down and relax with the kids :)

Who could ask for more.....