10 July 2013

Our Haiku Fan has arrived! Zipline makes the house a home!

Our Haiki Fan arrived!  Brent and Cole immediately went to task to install it!  We LOVE it!  http://www.haikufan.com/
I was really hoping for the cocoa and black, but they were out.  We went with white and I think I like it better.  It blends into the ceiling, it's sleek, stylish and it pumps out the air!




On a side note...think I've mentioned it before...someday I will have grown-up furniture in the living room.  We would love to have nice craftsman style furniture but YIKES!  Have you seen the prices on that pretty furniture?  We will have to save for a bit. 

Cole posted on facebook "A house isn't a home until you have a zipline in the backyard".  I looked in the back and saw the results of Brent and Cole's hard work installing a zipline:

The word is out and kids appear when they see us outside.  The rules are: 8 years old and a parent release.  It's a pretty decent zipline for a backyard.  It goes from the garage:
 To the back corner of our lot:






04 July 2013

Happy Fourth of July!

We celebrated and played today!  It was GREAT!  My folks have an awesome, big backyard.  Our tradition has always been to fill the yard with blowup water toys and then BBQ.  Thank you to both sides of the family who hosted us and made it a magical day!





After a big BBQ we headed up to Aunt Amy and Uncle Carl's house for more swimming and hamburgers.  The kids kept saying "Take my picture doing this"...

 The pictures in the neon green tubes were my favorite:








 And then there is always this favorite game:



Our fourth was sandwiched between a massive 4 day swim meet.  The kids did well--success!