A Break in the Rain

It's been raining non-stop for days, so when we finally got a little break between storms today we immediately headed outside to find some puddles and get a little fresh air.

I found a pair of brand new rainboots in the top of Simon's closet while I was on my Spring Cleaning purge the other day, and luckily they were exactly the size that he needed for right now. He was SO eager to put them on, but once he had them on it took him awhile to adjust to walking in boots.

Let's just pretend this is one of those awkward supermodel poses and not that he's having trouble walking, okay?

Puddles, puddles, everywhere.

This one looked exceptionally good for a taste test.

Sawyer hunted down the muddiest puddles he could find, naturally.

I walked around the yard and checked on the garden. It looks like Spring has sprung! Last year's strawberries are coming back, even though we thought we dug them all up. I'll have to save these and relocate them since we're planning on using this garden bed for other veggies this year. The strawberries are getting moved to a bigger bed to accommodate all of the little hands that are eager to pick berries and fill their tummies.

The new nectarine tree is in bloom, and the new leaves are starting to emerge. I never realized that nectarine blossoms were such a pretty color!

This is what the apricot tree looked like last week before the rain began. Now there are hardly any blossoms left, and the leaves are starting to bud.

Simon found more puddle bliss at the bottom of the slide.

These two spent their time getting all of their sillies out on the trampoline. They would have stayed outside all afternoon, but it started to sprinkle again, and they remembered how cold it was after they played outside in the rain the other day...

Sawyer couldn't have been any happier to be completely drenched, and Sutton was frozen and anxious to get into some warm, dry clothes!