A Swing Set!

Meet the newest addtion to our family. Our Swing Set!!!

I have been saving for over a year...yes, over a year...to buy my kids an awesome swingset. And after all that time, we finally got one. Hurray! The boys absolutely love it!!

I wanted to give the boys the swing set for Easter, but it just didn't work out that way, so they got it a week later. You see, I decided to buy the set from Costco, however, there isn't a Costco around here, so Grandma and Grandpa Sutherland were nice enough to buy it for us over in Bellevue, and then drive it over here in their truck.

The whole week before they arrived, Kallen would talk about his Swing Set non-stop and mentioned he couldn't wait for Grandma and Grandpa to bring it. It was pretty cute. And when they arrived, Kallen was sooo excited. He couldn't wait for us to put it up for him. The set came in 6 boxes and took a very long time to assemble. My Dad was such a trooper and spent his entire weekend putting the thing up with Tyson and I. We really do owe him a lot! How long do you think it took us to put this sucker up? 5 hours? 8 hours? 10 hours? Nope. It took us over 16 hours! Can you believe it? It was crazy, but it really wasn't that bad. Plus, all that work was worth it to see the smiles on my little boy's faces.

Kallen was so excited to be the first one down the slide.

Weston loves his swing and pretty much everything else on the swing set. In fact, this surprised me, because I didn't think he would be able to do much else but swing. However, he can get up and down the ladder to the fort area all by himself and will even go down the slide sometimes. This use to be a scary thing for me, but he has gotten pretty good at it, so it doesn't scare me as much anymore.

We actually have had both of our families visit us since we got the set. All the cousins loved it.

Can't you tell from the smiles?

I am so glad we got our kids a swing set. It has been wonderful. They play outside on it every day and it is so much fun to spend time with them playing up in the fort or going down the slide with them. Sometimes it gets a little old pushing them over and over on the swing, but it is worth it to hear their laughter and see their bright smiles.

Easter...It's About Time

I know, I know...Easter was over 2 months ago, but I'm finally posting some pictures. Maybe if I'm really on fire this week, I'll make two posts and not just one...but if I were you, I wouldn't keep my figures crossed.

We had a lot of fun this Easter. Kallen loved painting his Easter Eggs and probably could have dyed tons more, but I limited him to a dozen.

Waiting patiently for the eggs to dye.

Let me introduce you to Kallen's cheesy smile. It has been appearing in our pictures for the past few months and just won't go away. Oh well, at least Kallen will let me take his picture now. A few months ago, he wouldn't even let me do that. So I guess I'll take the cheesy smile over no smile at all. :)

The proud kid with his finished product.

Here is the loot. The Easter bunny was sure nice this year. Kallen got a lawn mower, which he absolutely LOVES! Weston got a swing...which he couldn't care less about. At least one kid was happy right? Speaking of that swing, I wonder what it goes to? You'll find out later.

Weston wasn't that into the loot, however he thought the Easter basket grass was the coolest thing ever.

Like I said, Kallen loved his lawn mower. As soon as he saw that the Easter Bunny had brought him one, he ignored everything else and mowed our entire house. It took some serious convincing on my part to get him to look at the other things in his basket and to start the Easter Egg hunt...Reeses Peanut Putter Cups helped get him focussed a little. However, his heart just wasn't into it and he soon was back mowing everything on site in no time.

Notice the cheesy smile again.