House Full of Munchkins

Bluebonnets - it’s that time of year in TX where we drag our kids to fire ant infested fields of bluebonnets, expect them to sit nicely for pictures and try to convince them it is fun

The truth is that of the hundreds of pictures we take of the kids most of them end up like this.

Two of them watching the lawn crew at the arboretum and one who found a stick and wants to show us.

This picture just makes me smile.

One of the things that drew us to this house was the sense of community in the neighborhood. I love that we can walk to the park and the pool and that we have such great neighbors.

At the park for a picnic dinner…Evelyn heard the ice cream truck

Reid and the big slide. It will be fun to see him return to this park when he is grown and watch him when he realizes it was not the slide that was big, but that he was little

Such a perfect evening

Not even close to the excitement of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods but when you are 4, 2 and 1 it was pretty fun

Milo got tired on the way home so he rode in the bottom basket of the stroller

Reid was there too but he was not interested in sitting for a photograph - he wanted to run and explore

While the TX part of the family was at the arboretum Chris and Luke were busy making bottle rockets and flying kites in MN.

Here they are making their rockets at Leonardo’s Basement.

Chris using the glue gun. He has since asked for one for his birthday.

Lucas building his creation

Ready to launch

I’m pretty sure this should be captioned “Enough with the pictures, let’s blow it up”

Up they go!

And then it was on to kite flying

And some more rocket launching. I believe Chris said it went 650 feet!

Covered with cupcake at a friend’s birthday party

All cleaned up and in her sun hat

Only Daddy makes her smile like this

Just a few pictures from the arboretum during the Dallas Blooms festival.

On the day the boys headed back to MN we met up with some friends for a morning in the park.

Launching a rocket

Tree full of munchkins

Add one sister

Reid wanted to get up there too but we all decided that wouldn’t be a very good idea.

The boys were itching to get out on a bike ride so Aubrey took them along our trails while the little kids and I hung out a little closer to home.

Evelyn spots the guys on their way home

I thought it was funny they were all in red

Big bike, little bike

Reid trying to figure out what the pedals are for