Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Wanna ride?

We spent most of the day on Saturday working outside. We mowed the lawn, weed-whipped, picked up some brush, Andy worked in the garage, the girls played outside...It was a beautiful day to be outside and enjoying the Great Outdoors. When we got the lawn all done, Andy had the brilliant idea to mow trails through our woods for the girls and their power-wheels. We have a section of woods that we never use. The rest of the land is either yard or pasture for the horses and calves, but this part never gets used. Well, we ended that.

We made several trails for the girls that wind through the woods, criss-crossing eachother and coming out into several different areas of the yard. When they got up from their afternoon rests they were SO excited! We haven't been able to keep them off the trails since. The power-wheels are getting a good workout, but they've also just walked the trails and sometimes have done a combination of both (usually walking to get one of us after getting one of the vehicles stuck on a tree due to inattentive driving) Now I don't want people to assume all they do is ride their power-wheels. They have bikes that get just as much use and provide a "work-out" too. Trust me, these girls don't lack in physical activity.





4 comments:

My Busy Boys said...

Sounds like alot of work! You can come help us. The work we did do in the yard- we fixed by buying a bigger house. It's beautiful but took up my yard. Now we are starting again.
Love ya

Carol said...

That looks SO FUN!!!! My boys would be out there like that too...seriously, someday, I'm bringing my boys to Wisconsin and they & your girls will definitely be fast friends.

You know that house-swapping show? I forget the official name of it but 2 families kinda trade lives for awhile (or am I confusing Wife Swap?) anyway...it would totally be fun to "trade" lives with you guys for just a week or two--you could come here & enjoy the perks of living close to museums, zoos, beaches, shopping, civilization : ) with your family and mine could experience life in the country. : ) I guess it's the Country Mouse/City Mouse story. Anyway...so fun!

Mom In Progress said...

Those are the coolest! Any kid would be in heaven with those. What a fun time. Heck I'd have fun playing too. ;)

Candid Carrie said...

You are in a different part of Wisconsin than we are, we've haven't got that much blooming going on in our neighborhood. Our little vehilces still have their snow tires.