Summer is HERE! YEAH!!!!!!!

We have been waiting and waiting and waiting for summer. We love garage sale-ing, the sprinkler, breaking out the kiddie pool, lemonade and sunshine. After a looooooooooooong, rainy winter we've been just waiting to have some nice temperatures. Well, it looks like it might finally be here.

So, the other day we went to the "river water" (the Willamette River) to let the dogs play for awhile. As we were heading home, we saw a FREE sign (can't pass those up) and found a pink nylon bag that I thought had a chair in it. Come to find out, it had this cool cabana in it. So we popped it up and have been playing in it ever since.

Here's Cody, eating a carrot, and Caitlin drawing pictures in the cabana.

We have a blanket out there (thanks Brenda) as well as a bean bag chair, all in the name of comfort. We pretend that we live somewhere that has sunshine all year long. ha, ha, ha

We also broke out the kiddie pool. Caitlin gets to play in it first, but inevitably the dogs end up either drinking out of it, or getting their toys out of it (usually Caitlin throws them in). The water is always FREEZING too. I don't know how we can handle that cold when we are little. I sure don't do well with it now.

Casey is just learning how to retrieve from the pool without getting really wet. She always runs around the pool a few times until we say, "go get it, go on, go get it" then she starts to figure out we're not getting it for her.
We are also excited about our strawberries!

We are actually going to get a few this year. Every year we get a few more. Caitlin always ends up picking them before they are fully ripe, unless we watch her like a hawk! (I think we will even take her strawberry picking this year. Last year, blueberry picking was a big hit.)

Lastly, I had to post a few pictures of Cody and his carrot.

I was talking to my Dad on the phone while Cody was gnawing on this piece of carrot. He was trying to crawl and not lose his carrot. He kept sticking it in his mouth and then getting on his hands and knees. Of course I didn't have the camera ready and only got these two photos, but isn't he cute?