Technic Catamaran...

This is some of my favourite moments: Building Lego with my kiddos! They helped me build this cool Lego Technic catamaran recently. Riaan absolutely loved it! The catamaran has many working parts and it actually floats!

 Riaan helping with the boat's construction.

 Floating in the bathtub - just before we bathed Rusty.

Eliza and Riaan playing with the Technic catamatan. :)

Outdoor Work...

It's been a challenging few weeks globally, and with all the depressing news I've lost interest in maintaining this blog of late. However, I will continue and hopefully my posts can brighten someone's day! :)

We've had several lovely days - interspersed with stormy, rainy days - which have allowed us to spend time outside working on various garden projects. We recently put up a raised garden bed to allow us to grow our own vegetables! We are excited about this little project. We have also put up a mounted flower bed on the fence and Riaan's bird house that he made back in November finally has a home!

I'm sure I'll be putting up more photos as the plants (still to be planted) begin to grow! We're excited for summer!

 Mounted flower bed.

 Raised garden bed.

 Filling it with our own compost and top soil.

 Ready to be planted with veggies!

I've also been working on filling this flower bed with pebbles.

Backyard Birds...

A northern cardinal (back) and a junco enjoy some scattered bird seed. :)

Cherry Ghost Fun...

We drove past the Cherry Ghost the other day and Riaan wanted to know why it was called the "Cherry Ghost." I told him that I didn't know why, to which he replied, "I think it's because of the white marshmallows that are in the hot chocolate. Ghosts are white and so are marshmallows." This kid! 😄

Beautiful Sunday...

We had a beautiful Sunday here last week. (23rd February.) We spent lots of time playing outside with the kiddos and also had a picnic tea outside in the afternoon. A group of horse-riders were also out enjoying the sunshine - as pictured here. I even went for a nice little cycle later in the day!

 Eliza enjoying playing outside.

 Painting the bird house.

 Riaan brought his Hot Wheels track outside...

 And Eliza's slide came outside, too! :)

 Horse-riders going around the corner.

 Looking up and watching the clouds blow by.

Cycling a little later in the day. :)

Father-Son Time...

Riaan helped me do the grocery shopping last Saturday morning. I then took him out to our favourite coffee shop, the Cherry Ghost, for a cup of hot chocolate. I'm trying to be more intentional about building into our children's lives as they get older. Special coffee/ice cream dates mean a lot to our kiddos - and to us as parents, as well. :)

Tapping the Maple Tree...

Candace's parents popped around a week or so ago and drilled a couple of holes into our maple tree. We are now catching the maple sap in buckets and have already boiled a batch down into maple syrup - which we enjoyed on pancakes for lunch over this past weekend! There are so many useful resources that God gifts us through his amazing creation!

 Attachment and pipe coming out of our tree.

The maple sap flows into the bucket.