Feeling better and our weekend.

Well turns out that on thursday when I posted last, it was just the eye of the storm in regards to our sick household.  Unfortunately T got sick again that night as well as myself.  Sweet Pea and Jeff got sick on saturday.  It ran through our entire household which is believe it or not very rare.

So yesterday we decided we would stay home from church in efforts not to expose anyone else to our germs.  We were feeling better though so we ended up having a family day.   We spent the morning trying to get the germs out of our house.  Rooms were cleaned, laundry was done, floors were scrubbed with bleach.

After the house was done, we went outside!  Here's what J did....

I got some weeding done in the front and when I came around to the back to tackle my very over grown garden, I found this!

T  and our neighbor boy had already weeded 4 of the boxes and finished the last one too.  I was sooo grateful.. I had actually contemplated not planting a garden this year just because of the vast amount of weeds in the garden as you can tell by the over grown herb garden to the right. 

After that was done we set out on an adventure... 

 We walked through the woods......

Sat on logs......

Fanned ourselves with fern leaves....

Waved at camera welding moms.....

 Overcame obstacles in our paths.....

And most of all ran the heck out of that woods swatting the mosquitoes away as we ran.  Seriously... We only lasted about 5 minutes on our nature walk before we bolted.  The mosquitoes were unreal and being crazy spontaneous parents that we are, we forgot about bug spray.  So our walk was postponed until we can remember bug spray....

We decided to go get Mr Freezes from a convenience store and went to the park that was in full sun and therefore scary for mosquitoes.  Then we headed home where we had planned on some pasta salad and barbequed pork chops for supper.  Unfortunately our barbeque is really on it's last legs and would not work for us so we had to improvise.  We did have a fire pit however and a steel grate that we could put our barbeque grates down on.  It worked rather well.

As always whenever we are home, we had a slew of neighborhood children in our yard.  I love that my kids have so many friends close by to play with.  I have a feeling this summer is going to be a fun one for them.  Adding a campfire to the magic of our yard only enhanced the attraction.  It was like I was pied piper or something.  

One of our neighbor girls wanted to take pictures with my camera so the following pictures are just some of the things that went on in our yard last night....

With the campfire going, the kids wanted to eat outside.

 T doesn't like getting his picture taken by neighbor girls....

 Rhino loves this neighbor girl (and her ipod) and she is very sweet to him....

 Apparently we were trying to BBQ one neighbor boy...

mmmm supper!

All in all, we had a wonderful family day.  The kids went to bed late but they went to bed happy.  Since we homeschool, we don't have to be up early for any reason so late bedtimes can happen without consequences... most of the time....