Mercedes and the Girls

Brad is hard at work getting a shed built for our riding lawnmower to reside in. It was wedged in our garage all winter and it needs to go! Brad has some awesome plans for the backyard, and it will be fun to see them take shape. Fun mainly because he does most of the grunty manual labor around here.

Today he was building walls, and Mac and Leiden wanted to help. (Notice the winter coats. It's the 30th of April. And we are SO tired of it.) Mac with a hammer? Super scary.



Leiden with a hammer? A little less scary, but somehow much more incongruous.



Mimi stayed away from hammers--perish the thought. Later in the day we were down to little jackets over long sleeves, and Mimi came out and crawled through the newly growing strawberry patch. I can't believe she crawled on her knees through the rocks, which surround the strawberry plants. --As an aside, we are excited about these strawberries. They are either everbearing or 'day neutral', because they were fruiting well into September last year. That means hopefully strawberries soon!



Mimi loves the phone, and after dropping mine, which now has a blown out speaker, she is relegated to the play phone only. She doesn't mind too much.