Cheap Fun

Sweety recently had a birthday and received the following presents. I'm pretty sure they didn't cost the giver a whole lot, but the combination was gold. The boys spent several days enjoying them, imensly. I'm thinking the Whoppers weren't terribly clean by the time they were eaten, but oh well! No one died!

Thanks for all the fun, present givers!

Sweety Turns Five!

Thanks, Amy, for letting me shamelessly steal photos off you and immediately re-post them here. You make my life easy. (Click here to see her original post)

On his birthday we celebrated with family.

He LOVED the work gloves from Grandpa B. He didn't take them off until bedtime!

Smarty's doing his best to look tough here. ;)

A few days later, we hosted a party for all of Sweety's friends. I couldn't figure out what activity to do, at Sweety's party, that wouldn't turn into a dirty mess in our backyard. Finally Ben suggested that we just embrace the mud that is our yard, so we did. We had a BLAST!

 Ben is brilliant at cake decor. Sweety loved the trucks.

After presents and cake, we gave everyone a bucket, started the hose, and turned them loose on our dirt pile out back. We had mud holes, a slip 'n slide, a splash pool, and after a while, Ben turned a hose on our slide for good measure. It seems like there was something for everyone, and I think we all had a fantastic time!

Boys and Their Toys

Ben's customized soda can smasher cracks me up.

Way to recycle, baby. This makes all that money spent on shelving completely worth it, right?

My little movers

In case you can't tell, Sweety is driving the green truck and towing Smarty on his broken-down motorcycle, followed by his broken-down F-16.

Smarty just wasn't having good luck with vehicles that day. Good thing Sweety was there to save the day!

Clever boys.