Digging and building all in the same week!

So, on one of the hottest days of the summer, so far, I thought it would be fun to take the kids over to the Skirball Center, with my sister-in-law Angie, and try to score standby tickets for the Noah's Ark exhibit. We put our names on the list then did some other random stuff while we waited. It turned out that a group ahead of us, maybe 5 slots up, had a huge group and they took the last tickets. We then went to the digging exhibit and played there for a while. The kids enjoyed it and then we were so hot that when Angie suggested Yogurtland...we could not refuse! We will eventually get in there. We've been before and it is so cool we want to go again. Maybe we'll have better luck next time. We still had fun.

Last week I waited around the house for my VERY BIG package to come in the mail. It finally came. We cleared some space and began to put all the pieces together. We would not have been able to finish this without the help of Rachel and Darrin. Jeff's sister and husband were in town and they were so nice to actually want to help us build it. We had some set backs, like one part didn't have all the holes pre-cut and we used the wrong hardware in some spots...but after we fixed it we ended up with this...