backyard playtime

Today our good friends Chip and Margaret stopped by on their bicycles bringing with them some tasty venison brats for lunch, so we ended this Labor day weekend with a good old fashioned back yard cookout. The girls kept themselves busy with playing in their sandbox, climbing up and down the back steps, meandering aimlessly through the yard and fighting over who was going to sit in the chair (photo above). Anna proved herself able to eat a corn on the cob thoroughly and with great efficiency. Both girls managed to find all the dirtiest spots in the yard and got themselves as grungy as they could possibly be, but then isn't that what playing outdoors in the summertime is all about.