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We finished off Spring break with a round of mini-golf

Old is new again

I updated some old patio chairs Jason's sister gave us over 5 years ago, despite my attempt of painting them once it did not take and peeled badly, so I decided to turn the 4 chairs into 2 benches.  I cut an arm off of each of them and stained one bench to look brand new for the front porch and stained one to look shabby for the back yard.  I am pretty proud of the end results of both of them.

Does the tradition continue?

Now that Harrison is 10 years old the tradition of mowing the lawn is passed down from father to son.  The hatred and loathing of mowing the lawn was and is the mindset my dear husband has had most of his life about mowing the lawn and now he has decided to pass it on to our son, with all his wonderful, loving fatherly ways I am keeping my fingers crossed that the tradition of despising yard work has stopped dead in it's tracks right now. During his mowing when Harrison took the gloves off I made him wear (Mom alert: so he would not get blisters) in the middle of mowing I thought he was done, but he kept going and after he completed the entire front yard I asked what he thought about mowing and he said; "I loved it!"

 Hmmm, must run in the family, I come from a line of yard lovers, my father is VERY proud of his lawn and we recently found out his father was also very proud of his lawn.  So I think that Jason can teach Harrison anyway he wants and Harrison will have that pride no matter what because he was born with it,  YEAH!

Zippin and Climbin through Spring Break

What an awesome day!  We spent the entire day at the U.S. National Whitewater Center, the kids and I did lots of zip lining and crossing over cables of 20 to 60 feet in the air. 

I am impressed with my kids and their incredible physical and mental strength as well as their thirst for adventure.  I was so impressed that they both climbed a rope ladder over 32 feet high and jumped down to zip line for 100 feet more than once with no fear at all and walked on cables that were 60 feet in the air to finish to a zip line of 250 feet across the gorge.  Mom and Dad were such sports following us, watching and taking photos, so glad they could be here to see the kids have such fun.

It was quite the day and it was so awesome but could have been so  much better if our enthusiastic Daddy was with us because I know he would have loved every bit of it as well.  Maybe next time we will ride the rapids and Harrison will be able to get to the kayaking that he wanted to do so bad.