big weekend

saturday morning, the big swingset was delivered for jake. he was incredibly excited and we played on it for over an hour until it was lunch time. L's family was in town for the big event and we ordered chinese for lunch from wah mei. yum!

after lunch, my father-in-law and i went to lowe's to make purchases for the big garden. all the details about setting up the garden can be found at my garden blog where i'll be journaling everything i do for the garden in order to look back on it next spring when i'm planning for next year.

sunday after church (and just after lunch), we got a call from our friends in the neighborhood that they were having a cookout. we were kind of full, but we wanted to hang out with them and to let the kids play together (they have a 3 y.o. boy and a 1 y.o. girl) so we went on over. the kids had a big time together on a water slide and then playing in a rock bed and we got a little more stuffed. it served as dinner though.

when we got home, we took care of a few around the house (and garden) things and then settled in on the couch to watch a netflix - the recent movie 'the queen'. it was pretty good and an interesting portrayal of the interplay between the british government and the royals and some strategic maneuvering therein.

the best part of the weekend was spending so much time outside, not worrying about the clocks (or even the depressing nats losses!) or assignments. just good time spent with family.

(pictures as soon as possible!)