Wordless Wednesday

Old Sand - New Sand

When Andrew and Kenny were growing up we actually had a huge square sand box in the back yard for them and the swingset around it.  Last year I decided that I didn't want that for Jonathon.  I just wanted a little sandbox that he could sit in and play and we could cover it up at night.

After searching we found a little crabby sand box out by the road for garbage. It just needed to be pounded out and it was fine.  Jonathon received sand for his 2nd birthday from Uncle John(my bro) and he was very very happy.  He loves his sandbox. 

  

And then there wasn't any sand!  When we opened up crabby this Spring it was full of petrified worms!  Ok ok so I cleaned them all out ~ Disgusting don't want any part of worms ~ then it rained ~ and we went out to play ~ crabby was full of petrified worms on top ~ live worms crawling through EVERYWHERE!! ~ I draw the line when I have to take out more than 20 ~ we dumped crabby!

Now Uncle John works out of state.  He is located in Texas.  Jonathon sent Uncle John a picture of empty crabby and told him to come home that he needed more sand PLEASE!!!!

Ask and you shall receive!!!!!

Look what showed up at our house on Friday afternoon ~ Remember Uncle John is out of state.

And look what showed up right after the sand was delivered........

UNCLE JOHN!!!!!!!

What a wonderful surprise for Jonathon to get sand only days after asking Uncle John and the best surprise for Uncle John to be on a trip to Michigan and able to stop in and say Hi!!  My boys have the best Uncle in the world!  Thanks brother for being a great Uncle and brother!!!  Love you bunches!!!!!!

So then we had to move the sand from point A to point B

                                                                           Point A  (a very happy little boy)

                                                                      Point B

And even though Kenny did a superb job helping out this would have taken us all weekend to finish so I called in a favor.

                                                                   So our good friend Mr. Randy came with his tractor and moved the sand from Point A to Point B for us.  And daddy helped too.

                                                And here it is ~ our new sand!

Special Day Today

With Jonathon turning 2 this summer I wanted to find him a swingset.

Years ago we had a nice wooden one, but decided to give it to our 2 neices and 1 nephew(triplets) when they turned 2 because their mom and dad couldn't afford one and Andrew and Kenny said it would be ok to give it away. So that was about 5 years ago. We also thought(THOUGHT)(LOL) we were done having children.

So even though I saved some items from when Andrew and Kenny were younger, I don't have a sandbox or a swingset or a swimming pool. My first goal was to find Jonathon a swingset by his birthday in July.

I have been searching online through freecycle and craigslist. Not having any luck. I decided to try again a few days ago and I finally found a swingset. The gentleman was asking 75.00. It is a huge wooden swingset and he stated that it needed to be hauled away on a 18ft. long trailer.......

I packed everyone up after school on Thursday and we drove the 30 minutes to go check it out. And Gilbert met me there on his way home from work.

We bought it...For 50.00!

Gilbert and our friend Randy are on their way right now to go pick it up. I hope they don't run into any problems and are able to get it on the trailer. Otherwise they have tools with them to dismantle it.

I am very excited for Jonathon and can't wait to take him outside to play later.
Will update later with pictures.