Yard Clean Up and a Good Friend

This weekend we had really nice weather and we were finally able to get out and clean up all the limbs and debris from the December ice storm. Okay, Jeff did most of the work but we were all outside. We couldn't have been outside more than three minutes when Emily was already "taking a break" and having a drink and a snack. Her latest thing is to tell me "I do lots of hard work" and I guess this was one of those times. Here are a few photos: break time (before the work even started); raking; sitting in the limbs rowing her boat.

A bit later we were out front cleaning a flower bed when she spotted her good buddy who lives two houses down. We haven't seen him in probably a month and Emily has been talking about missing him. So when she saw him she literally ran to him yelling his name and wrapped her arms around him. I'm not sure what this little guy thought about it, but he complied. They played for a bit then he had to leave. But later in the afternoon when we were out back playing on the swingset, he and his mommy came over and the kids got to play for another hour or so. They played on the swingset, played catch and played with Emily's new hula hoop. And our neighbor played with Zack, our dog. Zack loved having another little person to play with. Here are some photos of the kids playing. It was a nice weekend, we all enjoyed getting some fresh air and we are forecast to have a 70 degree day today. And then snow possible tonight and later in the week!! But we'll take the nice days when we can get them...especially in January!