Summer Days!

We have been busy enjoying summer around here!  The last week has been wonderful since being unpacked and feeling more settled :)

 We finally got sand for our sandbox!!  (The sandbox I found at a garage sale last summer RIGHT before finding out we'd be moving to DC)  The kids are loving it! 

 Gary put in a patio for our table in the backyard!  I'll have to post a "finished product" picture soon, but it looks great and makes an awesome temporary solution for us since we obvioulsy can't put in any fixed structures in the rental house.  The yard is pretty much dirt/sticks/rocks other than the patio... which the boys LOVE but we will hopefully be able to grow some grass (despite the shade) and cut down on the mud :)

 We can also have our own kiddie pool now that we are out of the apartment and have our own little yard!  It has been a HUGE hit! 

 Nathan's FAVORITE outside toy is the squirt bottles!  After lots of practice, he's found his own little way of working them and goes around squirting everyone and everything!  He's hilarious too becuase he'll hand me the squirt bottle and say "peeaaase", wanting me to squirt him all over!  He thinks it's so silly!  I love that boy :)

 In the middle of our "pool time" we always take a break for pospscicles or fudgescicles!  Nathan plops right down on his towel like one of the big boys and knows what's coming!  He finishes off every last bite, it's pretty cute :)

It sure has been HOT!  But we've still been spending a lot of time outside!!  The kids LOVE it!  The rest of our time the kids are enjoying the space here!  It is so nice to be able to have toys in their room, a few in the living room, and the majority downstairs in the basement (aka playroom!)