Unschooling Mamas on the Town

Once a month, local unschooling moms gather for a night out. I am so grateful for this lively and beautiful group of women...we shared a lovely meal and thoughtful conversations.

And now have a new favorite restaurant in Longmont!

We celebrated two birthdays...

And one of the mamas baked two pies for the birthday girls...yum yum! It was a great night. Thankful to have a support network full of amazing women...and also for a night out before this babe makes an appearance.

Play Play Play

We have been scouring Craigslist for the past month...looking for the perfect play structure for the girls. We've found many...but the prices were anywhere from $200 to $5,000. We knew we didn't want to spend much, so we just kept on the hunt.

However, this weekend we found one in Lyons that was in pretty rough shape, but they were only asking $60 for it. We offered $40 and they accepted!

Matt had to disassemble the entire thing, cut it in half, and bring it home to re-build it.

That same day, he found some scrap Trex decking to re-do the main deck of the playhouse. Score! It's times like this that I am REALLY in awe of my husband's amazing skills. He reconfigured the structure to fit around the existing trees and made it fit perfectly in our little backyard...which was no small task.

This is how the girls feel about their new playground! Thank you Daddy!

Endless hours of fun...a trapeze bar, 2 swings, a rope climb, a slide, and a fort. Even more fun will be had when we add the sand to the lower sandbox area! Praising God for this blessing.

In The Backyard

And now from the back patio! One of the things that sold us on this house was the great patio off the back and the big french doors that opened to it from the kitchen. We LOVE eating outside and have thoroughly enjoyed our time spent with friends and family out there so far. Now that we're back in Longmont, we're just minutes away from our good friends Kris and Natalie...which makes us very happy!

We've had fun with my family...and we look forward to Matt's mom and my sister coming out in June after Baby J is born! More deck fun to be had...

We have a nice little yard with a firepit...it's already been used several times and we love it. You can see Bella using the Sky View app...it's our new favorite thing to outside at night.

A light weekend lunch in the sunshine...

And some hammock time with Daddy!

We love having the space to run and play...

...and kick the soccer ball! Bella is starting soccer next week and she couldn't be more thrilled. In my next post, I'll show you another addition to our backyard that the girls are crazy about :) Happy Spring everyone!