G&G and Aunt Stacey came to visit us in our new house for the 4th of July weekend. It was such a treat showing them around our new city, taking them to the beach, and giving them a taste of Scooter's Dawg House's famous hot dogs (Y.U.M.) before putting them to work! My Dad and Cam spent 10 hours one day putting up a swing set for the kids in our backyard. We've been wanting one for a couple years and since I've decided we are done moving, we thought why not? So my Dad and Cam slaved away in the scorching 90 degree heat with about 95% humidity putting together the girls' new backyard adventure.
It took about 4 hours for this glider swing to get assembled to this point and it isn't even hanging yet but Syd decided she didn't care and was going to sit and wait on that thing until someone hung it for her to swing on.
The girls were so anxious to break it in so I let them eat their snack on the picnic table portion of the swing set while Daddy and Grandpa put up the rock wall part. Notice how the girls' hair looks wet? Let me introduce you to humidity. So you can only imagine how sweat-drenched Cam and my Dad were :(
Done at LAST! Way to go Daddy and Grandpa!
While the men were sweating outside, Grandma was inside carrying out my idea in putting up this awesome alphabet wall in the kids' playroom in our basement that I saw online a few months ago. Once I mentioned it to my Mom, she took off running with the idea and had a blast collecting all the letters at 4 different craft stores. She then spent time painting them and mod podging paper onto each letter and before the weekend was done, we put it up and were THRILLED with its cuteness factor. Makes you want one too huh?
As if the alphabet wall wasn't enough, my Mom still made time to sew some cute summer dresses for the girls. You see where I get motivation for my tons of projects from?
In between working G&G so hard, we did have some fun. The girls love when Grandpa comes to town because it means Cheetos are in the house.
Grandpa is Syd's favorite person and every time we talk to him on the phone she always asks him, "Grandpa? Where ah you?" To which Grandpa replies by laughing since Sydnee uses that more as a greeting than a question she wants answered. So now that Sydnee is a little older, my Dad asks her the same question sometimes and Syd just looks at me and laughs since she now gets the joke. Mmm, I could just eat her cute face.
And of course Cam being the pyro he is, he insisted I go find some fireworks we could set off at night. Come to find out, every firework in the book is illegal in Ohio (BOO!) so I bought what I thought was a cool fireworks pack of different fire crackers and fireworks but come to find out it was all smoke fireworks. What a let down. It made us miss the Winter's 4th of July fireworks pretty bad :( And living in Indiana where all fireworks are apparently legal.
Can you guess who taught this newborn pyro that if you use your sparkler and light a pop-it with it it'll explode a little more with a little more "oomf"? No? Let me give you a hint... it starts with a "C" and ends in "ameron."
2 comments:
Your family has so much fun! I love that they come down to help you. You are so lucky to have such a supportive family! Swing sets are truly priceless....how did people ever live without them??? And I love the ABC wall. Such a great idea. Tell your parents hello for me!
Looks like you guys had a fun holiday weekend :) I love your Alphabet wall, hopefully your little boy Voge will leave it in tact once he can start moving. I already know that Rock would pull everything down he could touch. I have been thinking about doing something similar with the letter "V" (high up on the wall of course).
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