As I posted a while ago, there is dry lake bed near us with some sand dunes around it. We go exploring there every so often and the kids love it. They find all kinds of garbage, uh, I mean, treasure to collect. As you can see above, the lake bed area is a huge expanse of flatness. Out more in the middle there isn't even any brush and the ground is cracked and dry. Surrounding it are a bunch of small dunes.
The boys have a blast running up and down them, digging around searching for something cool.
Although it is tricky to climb up--one foot up, two feet down....
Maggie didn't have much freedom here as every time she caught hold of some sand she tried to eat it. This is about the extent of her sand contact...
Some of the "treasure" tyler dug up. Tyler believes they are from a big war because they have bullet holes (people practice shooting out here for fun sometimes...)
Of course, after it is all over there is more sand in their clothes and shoes (and hence my car) than we left at the dunes! I did my friend's toes last week--nothing extravagant but cute nonetheless.
For my last "incident" I will start by saying that Sundays are a very busy, hectic day for our house. Eric is gone at meetings from 9 a.m. to noon, then we have church from 1-4, then Eric stays after for meetings until about 5:30. I am crazy trying make Primary run smoothly, and have morning branch council meetings ever other week. Don't get me wrong, I love to serve, but it is just a busy day. As I was getting some things ready to go, I hear a crash in the laundry room--Tyler had tried to get some Jelly Belly's off of a shelf, knocked the shelf down and an entire bottle of balsamic vinegar crashed all over the floor. Now this was no regular size bottle--this was a COSTCO size bottle--enormous.
It was WAY worse than the picture--it was very thick, splashed all over the walls, garbage can, anything surrounding it, and as you can see about half of it went UNDERNEATH the washer and dryer! Ugh! Our laundry room is tiny so you can't just push things aside--I had to move the dryer out of the room, rearrange things, and on and on. It took me 2 hours to get it all cleaned up! I didn't realize how sticky it would get--my shoes kept sticking to the floor. I almost suffocated to death on the fumes. I sopped it up with a sponge for a while, then used paper towels, then hand scrubbed it all with cleaner, then finally mopped the floor twice. But I managed to get it done. And the silver lining is that I found 2 rogue socks that had snuck behind the washer. Of course they were black with vinegar...
As I posted a while ago, there is dry lake bed near us with some sand dunes around it. We go exploring there every so often and the kids love it. They find all kinds of garbage, uh, I mean, treasure to collect. As you can see above, the lake bed area is a huge expanse of flatness. Out more in the middle there isn't even any brush and the ground is cracked and dry. Surrounding it are a bunch of small dunes.
The boys have a blast running up and down them, digging around searching for something cool.
Although it is tricky to climb up--one foot up, two feet down....
Maggie didn't have much freedom here as every time she caught hold of some sand she tried to eat it. This is about the extent of her sand contact...
Some of the "treasure" tyler dug up. Tyler believes they are from a big war because they have bullet holes (people practice shooting out here for fun sometimes...)
Of course, after it is all over there is more sand in their clothes and shoes (and hence my car) than we left at the dunes! I did my friend's toes last week--nothing extravagant but cute nonetheless.
For my last "incident" I will start by saying that Sundays are a very busy, hectic day for our house. Eric is gone at meetings from 9 a.m. to noon, then we have church from 1-4, then Eric stays after for meetings until about 5:30. I am crazy trying make Primary run smoothly, and have morning branch council meetings ever other week. Don't get me wrong, I love to serve, but it is just a busy day. As I was getting some things ready to go, I hear a crash in the laundry room--Tyler had tried to get some Jelly Belly's off of a shelf, knocked the shelf down and an entire bottle of balsamic vinegar crashed all over the floor. Now this was no regular size bottle--this was a COSTCO size bottle--enormous.
It was WAY worse than the picture--it was very thick, splashed all over the walls, garbage can, anything surrounding it, and as you can see about half of it went UNDERNEATH the washer and dryer! Ugh! Our laundry room is tiny so you can't just push things aside--I had to move the dryer out of the room, rearrange things, and on and on. It took me 2 hours to get it all cleaned up! I didn't realize how sticky it would get--my shoes kept sticking to the floor. I almost suffocated to death on the fumes. I sopped it up with a sponge for a while, then used paper towels, then hand scrubbed it all with cleaner, then finally mopped the floor twice. But I managed to get it done. And the silver lining is that I found 2 rogue socks that had snuck behind the washer. Of course they were black with vinegar...
2 comments:
I'm so happy you are finding some fun things for your family to do out there in the desert... A dry lake bed wouldn't thrill me, but for the boys, it looks like heaven!!! How fun to dig up such "treasures". It surely would have been much nicer if Tyler had just spilled the entire jar of jelly beans instead of the vinegar... I wouldn't even mind helping you clean up that delicious "mess"!!
Oh my heck!!! I don't even know what to say about that mess! I am just glad that it was your house and not mine! :)
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