It's The Little Things/ Nature Walk

Monday felt like the only real "day off" we had on our four day weekend. We wanted to get out of the house. But more than that we needed to get out of the house!
We are finally reaping the benefits of having two kids that don't take naps any more. I know some of you are thinking how could there be benefits to that?! But trust me there are. For starters we left the house at 1:00, typically what I associate to be the start of most kids nap time. Secondly, they didn't get all grumpy and cranky on us because they weren't sleeping like they are used to. I see those as two major perks it really feels like our little family is more "mobile" now and I am loving it. We ended up taking a drive out to an old bridge that is now a scenic area with several trails around it. 

Our amateur photographer daughter snapped this one, not to bad really!

After our time on the bridge we decided to go for a walk on a trail. Which turned into us being super paranoid about poison ivy and the girls touching any 3 or 5 leaf plants.

I really need to educate myself in the poison ivy identifying department.

It was a great time and nobody got poison (added perk)! 
We got home just in time to relax, watching the rain from our porch and a movie.

I love days like this. Definitely the highlight of our weekend.

Memorial Day Weekend Project Wrap-up

Hello again! 
Taking a 3 day blogging break felt a little strange. So it feels good to get back to it this morning. I hope that you had a great, long weekend. We spent most of ours finishing up on some projects and things around the house.

Let's take a look

So, my awesome husband and his friend built this at my in-laws house.

Isn't it GORGEOUS?!


I couldn't be more proud of those two guys.
Now this WAS NOT a weekend project. It took up several weekend and several late nights. Russ got the final touches done on Friday. We are all glad to have this project complete and since then I have "grounded" Russ from biting off any big projects. Unless he wants to build me a pergola for our patio. That, that would be completely fine :)!

With the deck complete we spent Saturday and Sunday putting up some additional privacy fencing in our own yard. This project has been in the works for weeks now and we wanted to get it done. So, I put on some gloves and decided to help. Russ even let me use the nail gun, woo hoo! I absolutely love using power tools (especially saws and nail guns).

While we worked the kids played and played and played. 

 It was a very productive weekend and we were glad to get several projects wrapped up, clean up the house some and kick back our feet and relax.

How was your weekend?