outdoor seating

It was HOT today. Those are words I haven't said in a long time! I think it topped off around 87, but it felt much warmer than that. The girls had red checks and frizzy hair all day!

Along with the warm weather comes....the picnic table! Since Daddy stained the deck this weekend, we are now able to sit outside on our furniture and enjoy the warm weather.

It also means we get to EAT outside! Not only do the girls think it's fun, but I love that it is so EASY to clean up meals! I think that as long as it's not raining we will be eating 3 meals a day on the deck. Hopefully that means I only have to see my mop occasionally this summer!

The day kept getting warmer and warmer and while I already had shorts for the girls, I neglected to get sunscreen! I was kind of nervous being outside today, but we stayed in the shade as much as we could and the sun was actually not out very much.

Since lunch was such a success, we had to have dinner outside too (poor Daddy was working late and missed out on our yummy outdoor meal).

Homemade BBQ chicken pizza. (Of course I needed a cold beverage!)  The girls enjoyed waving at all the airplanes that went by. They also talked to the geese and ducks in our pond. It was very nice dinner entertainment.

Little Pie was a little distracted with the neighbor kids playing soccer. Check out those curls!! I usually wet her hair in the morning to get it curly, but today the humid air took it to a new level! I'm so glad that it appears as if she did NOT inherit my hair.

There is a downside of eating outside; random debris landing in your apple sauce.

I put off turning our air conditioning on all day; it sort of felt silly turning it on in May (especially since we will likely have our heat on by Friday). However, when I went upstairs to get the bath ready it was 84 degrees up there. Even with all the fans blowing, I still needed to turn the air on so the girls wouldn't melt. That is the one thing I don't like about this house; it gets so hot so fast and no matter if you have every window open and every fan going, it still can't cool off.

I'm looking forward to more outdoor meals! (Cleanup was such a breeze today!)

Question of the season: How will the girls handle thunderstorms? So far they still seem to be oblivious.