Our Picture Perfect Saturday

Saturday May 9th was a great day. It was one of those days you imagine all days will be like before you actually started your family and realized that all to often life gets filled up with bills, chores, have to's and do it's or elses. Maybe that's why it was such a perfect day.

It started outside with weeding the flower bed in the front. The Creeping Jenny had crept over everything and our bed was a mass of light green vines. We happily weeded while the girls rode bikes and Sophie started darting traffic.

We then jumped in the car and headed to our local wally world to buy the girls a pool. We went up and down the isles perusing all their summer goodies, lawn chairs, grills and flowers. Abby then picked out a zebra pool and we were off to pump up the summer magic. (Abby had been wearing her swimsuit since the night before) We came home, grabbed the kids something to eat and we were off to Abby's first T-ball game.

For any parents out there that haven't yet started their kids in their local city's rec teams let me recommend T-ball. Skip soccer all together watching 5 year olds play ball is much more enjoyable then watching them chase a soccer ball in a large mass. Abby started out playing first base it was hilarious, kids running this way and that, like I said much more enjoyable for the sideline fans. Abby was sure her team won (they don't keep score) and by the end of the game every parent of a purple dragon knew Abby's name (she's the only girl)

After T-ball we treated ourselves to a lunch of Cafe Rio. We got the usual, Rob downed a large chicken enchilada and the girls and I shared a pork salad.

Home brought more outside fun. The girls played in their pool for hours. Sophie stood shaking most of the time with her purple lips and chin quivering as she smiled and said "wee", at one point she pulled her little bike over to the pool and sat next to it splashing the water with her little cold hands.

More weeding and thoughts of painting the fence continued throughout the afternoon. We ended the evening with Robby cooking himself "a big old juicy steak"

We did eventually go inside and leave our happy outdoor Saturday when I realized part of what made that Saturday so great was the fact that Robby was at home (usually he works on Saturdays) I didn't do a lick of housework and we spent the entire day as a family with few fits or whines. Here's to hopefully many more picturesque summer Saturdays.