More Garden Fun

It was a HOT "summer-like" day yesterday so we headed to the Gardens for some water fun...

Water fountain rocks...

Then on to the Lily Pad pond - somehow the kids didn't notice that water felt like melted ice...

Tired boys after a fun morning.  This is how I found both of them while I was making their lunch...

Gardens

We love our local Botanical Gardens and usually visit there at least once a week.   We are excited about this summer's new exhibit which has a lot of water features for the hot days.  This morning was a little too cool for the water so we headed to the Children's Garden.  Rachel had her camera and snapped a few pictures of the kids...









My little aliens...poor Brodie's hat got a little smashed as he was trying to put his head in the hole - but he had to do it - just like the big kids did!

 

Phone Dump

A lot of times when we are outside I do not have my camera with me - so I just snap pictures with my phone...

We have had a lot of rain lately, which means we have had a lot of puddle/mud fun lately....and lots of extra laundry!

 

 Brodie loves our friend's dog - he is seriously obsessed!

 Brodie hunting for Easter Eggs...

Thankfully the sun has returned!

Easter Fun

We enjoyed some Easter Fun this morning with our good friends.  We started with an Easter Egg Hunt.  We decided just to do one at our house this year.  The kids were so excited....

 

 Brodie got in on the action a little bit too.....

But mostly just liked to watch the other kids from the best seat in the house...
 
 Enjoying some treats...

Next we headed to our friends for some egg dying fun...

 

After using the hose to wash off dyed hands...the hose got used to make mud which led to splashing mud fun....

 

 Checking out his loot at home!

Papa and Grandma

Papa and Grandma came to visit this past weekend.  They were lucky to exchange the cold and snow of Michigan for the sunny 70's of the South. 

We spent all day Saturday playing outside.  Alex had Grandma working in the garden all morning.  In the afternoon, Alex had to be one of the guys watching MSU basketball. 

Am hoping he was just holding Papa's beer for him....

Brodie was loving bubbles all weekend and attempting to blow them himself...

 Sandbox fun...

 On Saturday night Eric and I got out for a date night.  We enjoyed the beautiful weather and sat outside to eat at Bridge Street.  Papa and Grandma walked the boys to Zen Beri for frozen yogurt after dinner.  

On Sunday we all went to Church and enjoyed a nice brunch at Grill 29 where we were able to sit outside on the patio.  Both boys behaved extremely well. 

Papa and Grandma took Alex fishing on Sunday afternoon.  He was thrilled to catch two fish.  He had about as much fun playing with the worms as he did fishing :). 

 
We had a little rain on Monday, so Grandma entertained the boys inside for a little bit.  Alex got a sword for his prize at the dentist that morning, so he and Grandma had some sword adventures...


Cozy reading time...
 
They stayed until Tuesday morning to help watch the boys so I could get some things done.  We appreciated the extra sets of hands and ran a lot of errands and got a lot of projects around the house done.  It was a great weekend.