This Weekend in Busytown

We had one of those weekends that seemed to be over before it started and kept us moving the whole time. After a long week of 12+ hour days (including working on his supposed day off Friday), Bruce was itching to get the shelf for Finn’s closet put together, so he worked in the garage for most of the day. The boys were pretty good about playing while I made some preparations for Finn’s upcoming birthday party.

By Saturday afternoon, frustration was running high — Bruce because the shelf was not coming together as nicely as he had planned and me because, well, 12+ hour days for Bruce mean the same for me and I was needing a break from the madness. Bruce decided to take the boys off my hands and get started on our vegetable garden. It meant he got to use his tiller, which makes him happy. Finn helped out with the digger.

Bruce finally gets to use his tiller again

The ground was pretty well prepared by Sunday, but we had a native garden tour to go to (trying to get more ideas for our yard) and our friends Rob and Juliet had given us their tickets to the Angel game so we had a busy day ahead. The garden tour was really good; the last house, in particular, was spectacular. The boys were not all that interested, but they did find some entertaining things. Finn made himself right at home at this house in La Canada, for instance.

Finn makes himself at home

Then we were off to Anaheim for the game. The seats were great!

Great seats!

Ezra and Finn don’t know much about baseball, but they did enjoy the peanuts and ice cream.

Finn likes peanuts

Ice cream at the game

When asked if they had fun at the game, Ezra replied, “Yes! The ice cream was so yummy!”

When we got home, I took off for Trader Joe’s and the boys started working in the garden. They had to put up a little fence as a reminder that there are plants trying to grow.

Starting the vegetable garden

By the time I got back, they had planted everything and made signs where the seeds were. These are Ezra’s signs.

Ezra's signs

And this one is Finn’s (it says Radish). He hasn’t really written letters before, so this is very exciting!

Finn's sign -- Radish

Ezra was also hard at work on a mud pie.

Ezra's mud

Once the pie was formed, he gathered sawdust from the driveway to use as sprinkles.

Gathering "sprinkles"

Ezra makes Finn a mud pie (with sprinkles)

He was making a cake for Finn.