Ready for waterpark fun!!

This is our 3rd summer with Roaring Springs season passes. Trust me if you live in Boise you have to be around water if you want to be outside!!

There are the girls coming down the big yellow slide

I like to call them little caterpillars. The girls hauling their mats to the top of the BIG yellow slide.
Here are the babies just hanging out in the shade while their sisters play. They did Great.

Our Garden

When you ask what I got for Mothers day... I will tell you I got dirt! Lots of it!! We really wanted to make a garden this year so for that is what we did mothers day weekend. Aaron built the box out of old pallets and we bought lots of dirt to fill it with. We planted beans, cantaloupe, watermelon, peppers, strawberries, broccoli, tomatoes, and much more. We are trying something different with the tomatoes this year, we have heard that they do really well if you hang them upside down to lessen the stress on the branches... well we will keep you all posted on how they do.

First experience with Goat Heads

Remember the bike trailer I talked about in the last post? Well it, as well as my bike, are out of commission for the time being. Aaron has been riding his bike everywhere and taking the girls with him in the bike trailer, they love it! So last Monday while Aaron was home for Memorial day I decided it was my turn to give it a try. We live about 1 1/2 miles away from the canal which has a dirt trail next to it. I walk the canal trail quite often, but have never taken my bike on it. Actually now that I think about it I don't think I have ever seen anyone ride their bike on the canal... for good reason. We made it about a mile on the trail when I started to hear a funny noise and when I looked back I realized that a tire on the bike trailer was flat! I was now about 2 1/2 to 3 miles away from home! Upon closer inspection of the tires they (2 on the trailer and 2 on the bike) were laden with goat heads. For those of you who don't know what goat heads are, they are very hard round balls with many thorns on them. Hannah had not brought shoes and it was about 90 degrees out and we were still at least a mile from the trail head. Luckily before we left I had thought to throw my phone in the trailer just in case. So I called Aaron and on the second try he answered the phone and picked us up at the trail head. We later found out that all 4 tires need to be replaced... I don't think we will be riding on the canal again.

Garage Sale Treasures...

A couple weekends back a couple friends and I decided that with garage sale season here we should head out and look for some good deals... Well we definitely found some! With gas prices so high we decide that we should just take a little car so my friend Angela came and picked Stephanie and I up at 6:30am in her little Honda Civic we did not really plan on buying anything big, but then again we never do... Well we hit some great deals and were determined to pack and repack until we made things fit. We ended up with 3 kids bikes, two plastic baby gates, diapers, a bike trailer, a scooter, among many other big items Needless to say the car was packed to the hilt!! At one sale the guy tied the trunk shut with string and then sent the string with us in case we made anymore big purchases. When we were leaving one subdivision we saw a push mower up against a light pole that had a free sign on it... how can you pass up free? The funny thing is that recently Aaron has really wanted one of these. He has researched them and has been pleading his case. One of the main reasons he wanted one is so he could mow the lawn at 6am (yea right!!) without waking the neighbors and still have his Saturday free to spend with the family. The crazy thing is that A. our lawn mower works just fine. and B. one of these push mowers new is upwards $200 (remember folks... it does not have a motor!!) I told Steph and Ang that I had to get it... we had to find a way to get it into our already maxed out space... and with determined friends at my side... we did it... I held the mower part on my lap and we stuck the handle out the window (can you say Beverly hill billies?). When we got close to home I called Aaron so he could come out and take a picture of his new present. You would have thought he won the lottery he was so excited. He helped me unload what was mine (among my purchases was a $400 trek bike trailer/ stroller for $25) and immediately started mowing. I told my friends that they would probably see the mower at our church rummage sale in a couple weeks, but for once (the first time in 9 years of marriage) my dear husband was right... It is GREAT!! It mows the lawn well, you can mow in your bare feet (at 6am if you prefer although that has not been done yet) and it is so easy to push. So we are now on the look out for more motor less push mowers (preferably free) for envious neighbors.