April is fun

 

The calendar says that Spring is here but the weather sure had not cooperated! We went from cold and snowy to cold, windy and rain!  We have still taken full advantage of the nice days that we have been blessed with! 

Shea had one last birthday celebration at the Dublin Rec Center and that day happened to be 80 degrees!!  It was nice for the kids to wear swimming attire and not worry about freezing to death.  The girls (and Sean, Shawn and Will) had a fun time!  The place is really nice!  The pool area had a small waterfall, lazy river area, large twist slide and a small toad slide.  They swam, played hard, swam and then ate! 

Lazy river was a hit!

Kenlee makes a splash on the tongue of a frog slide!

Our swimmers…

What cute kids, and that Daddy!!! :)

Shea had one last birthday celebration at the Dublin Rec Center and that day happened to be 80 degrees!!  It was nice for the kids to wear swimming attire and not worry about freezing to death.  The girls (and Sean, Shawn and Will) had a fun time!  The place is really nice!  The pool area had a small waterfall, lazy river area, large twist slide and a small toad slide.  They swam, played hard, swam and then ate! 

Whew… Shea’s birthday celebrations are over, for another year!

 

Our annual Spring visitors are back! Mamma and Papa duck.  They come every Spring.  It’s so much fun to watch them roam around.  Our neighbor feeds them but this year they have decided that our fish pond is their personnel bathing area.  I looked out the window and caught them one night.  I ran for the camera and caught this.

Another night I was able to get really close to them.  I had to act fast, the kids were after them!

 

One more update.  We have several trees in our back yard.  The previous home owners planted all of the trees and they were really close together.  A couple had rotted and a few others were being eaten by a boring worm. We really have been nursing them along for a few years.  The ice storm this winter did not help them.  Last weekend we did a massive stick clean up in the woods along with cutting down 7 trees.  We DO plan to plant two new ones and build a picnic shelter (for lack of other words to describe what we have in mind).

Will was more than happy to get his gator out and help us drive wood from the cutting area to the stacking area.  Even if it was only a couple of feet! He didn’t care at all.

Shawn took a few hour break from the welding he was doing on his Hot Rod.  Which is coming along and I will have to do an update!

To do this….

I ran in to get the camera because I had forgotten all week to take a picture of the back yard before all the trees came down.  Here it is!!

Here it is after we were done and cleaned up! Big difference.

We have a massive stick pile now.  We need to roast some hot dogs and make some smores!  Who’s up for joining us???!!!!

 

We hope you are enjoying your Spring and the beautiful days we have been given.  Everyone have a fantastic Easter Weekend!