We've had the major task looming over us to clear out the garden area in the back yard to get it ready for a REAL garden next spring. Its been the dumping ground for yard clippings, fall leaves, and chopped down trees for years at Shaun's house. On Saturday the weather was phenomenal! In fact, I dare say it was the best weather of all time in the State of Utah that day. BEAUTIFUL! We took the kids to Chubbys to have a cheeseburger, and then came home to clear the garden! We did it in a jiffy with everyone working together. Afterwards, I took the girls to Hula class and came back to Kai and Shaun using axes and saws chopping down trees! They were both in hog heaven. We decided to have a little fire pit to burn some of the massive pile of leaves that we had and some of the dead wood that night. It turned out to be one of the funnest nights we've had!
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| Camping in the backyard! |
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| The girls were SO sophisticated at our campfire with their fancy fans |
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| Skip the hot dogs...Went right for the marshmallows! |
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| Awe! How Sweet:) |
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| Why use a stick when you can use a 6 hot dog cooker thinger |
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| Sheez I Love this girl! |
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| Shaun and his impression of Tom Hanks in Castaway ....FIRE!! |
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| Give me a kiss Kaibo! |
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| And even more yummy sugar! |
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| To quote Kai..."Shaun is connecting with the spirits" |
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It was only a matter of time before the shirts came off...crazy boys!
Kai was on LEAF DUTY, which meant that he had to add a hand full of leaves from the pile to the fire every so often so that we could start burning through the HUGE pile that we made.
Shaun had to finally say, lay off of Leaf duty for a minute Kaibo...we're smoking out the neighborhood! |
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| Shaun's version of "Put another log on the fire" |
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| And another... |
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| Kai and Shaun SO proud of their fire and their awesome work of chopping trees down |
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| LULU! You are so crazy cute! |
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| Lucy bailed on the fire to jump on the tramp |
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Time to put out the fire...Kai is pretty worried about the amount smoke billowing over the fence and into the neighborhood...It was a flippin miracle that we didn't get the fire dept called with the amount of smoke that was looming across the street. Woopsie!
What a fun night of fire, Shaun and Lulu Hula dancing around the fire, eating amazing hot dogs,
my kids making me smores left and right.
And just enjoying being together:) |
