Our weekend outside!

We spent practically the whole weekend outside that past weekend. Kris had a couple of projects to work on and so the kids and I helped a little and played alot!

First of all, Kris decided he wanted to trim all the branches off the trees along our fence row in the back yard. We have horrible drainage back there, which we hope to fix eventually. So, cutting down all the branches hanging down from the trees really will help the sun be able to dry the ground up better. Now to do this little job, he had to climb up on a huge ladder.

Or ABOVE the ladder as in this picture.

He had to even stand ON some branches! Yes, I was a nervous wreck!

He spent Friday night till dark and Saturday till about 4 p.m. working on these trees. He was so worn out. Just so I can remember the HUGE difference his hard work made, here are some before and afters.

Before 1

After 1

Before 2

After 2

Before 3

After 3

The kids had a absolute blast playing in the back yard. They were so cute that I couldn't stop taking pictures of them. They both love to swing. Hannah has just really learned to swing herself and Lincoln can not be pushed enough. They played in the little tree house part of the swing set quite a bit. Once I heard Lincoln say when he didn't get his way, "I'm not your friend anymore." I believe Hannah picked this little saying up at school and has used it on her brother several times. Now he has started saying it. What was so funny to me was that the next sentence that came out of his mouth was "I love you Han." They really played well together all weekend and seemed to settle most of their little disputes themselves. I just love how Lincoln calls his sister Han. So cute!

Besides playing in the sandbox alot, they went around collecting all kinds of things in their bowls and buckets--flowers, leaves, rocks, tree bark, etc.

We had lunch outside on their little picnic table. Lincoln was trying to make some kind of face for me here.

So happy! Loving every minute!

They even helped their daddy pick up limbs and put them in the wheel barrow to clean up the back yard.

Finally around 2:30 I decided to see if they wanted to come in and watch a movie so they could rest. They had been outside since 9:00 a.m. and I knew that they would not want to take naps.

It didn't take Lincoln long to fall asleep on his own. He was so tired! My plan worked!

They went back out later and stayed out till after supper. Kris put in a couple of drains on the other side of our house to try to get the water to flow better off our down spouts. That night we grilled kabobs. The weather was perfect. What a great day! This is the big pile of limbs that are in our front yard right now. The city is supposed to come and pick it all up in a week or so.

Sunday Kris got a truck load of mulch and put mulch in all the front flower beds and a few in the back. Several of our neighbors around us commented on how great the trees in the back yard looked! Thanks babe for making the yard look so nice!