Family Fun in the Sun!

Well, it appears that summer has finally reached Seattle!!! The weather has been a scorching 75-80 degrees every day for a week. GORGEOUS! I know all of my friends from the south are laughing at the word scorching, but in Seattle THERE IS NO AIR CONDITIONING because it very rarely gets above 65 degrees (I'm not kidding, by the way. Less than 1% of homes in Seattle have air conditioning. Our house in not in that 1% category. Thank the Lord for great windows).

Anyway, today our family decided to spend our family day in a fun & more economical way. So, we stayed at home enjoying the sun & the back yard we have worked so hard on.

This activity was so exciting to all three of us. For almost two years, Dustin & I (mostly Dustin) have worked so hard on our once pitiful yard to get it into good condition. He built our fence, built a playground, mulched it in, leveled our yard, ripped out 60 bushes (not kidding), made the grass GREEN again, etc. etc. etc. We are SOOOOO pumped about spending this summer enjoying it & not working so hard.

Josiah was really excited, too. I mean, look at the set up the boy has. It is like he has his own little kingdom in our back yard. He loves it.

When he found out that our family was doing nothing but hanging out & playing in the back yard, he was SO excited! We were, too!

Here is Josiah playing in his much-loved sand & water table that Granddaddy & Grandma gave him last year. He spent hours playing in it today.

We also got to enjoy a new toy today. Uncle Chris recently bought Josiah a new beach ball sprinkler from Pottery Barn Kids. We hooked it up & had a ball! HA! Thanks, Uncle Chris!

Daddy & Josiah tortured each other with it when the other wasn't expecting it.

By the end of our day in the sun, Josiah's sand & water table looked more like a mud puddle, but he loved it. He has definitely gotten over his phobia of being dirty.

We even took the time to have a picnic lunch in the grass. Josiah picked the menu: Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, chips, grapes & pears. YUM!!!

By the end of the day we were all tired, wet, hot & sun-burned...well, at least the parents were. We were smart enough to put sunscreen on Josiah, but not bright enough to put it on ourselves.

Thanks to God for a beautiful house & a beautiful yard. Our family had such a wonderful day having fun in the sun!