Breakfast in the park for a change of pace….
Running in the grass while it’s still cool…
Walking the trails for a long ways….
Chatting with the ducks who came a-callin’….
I only had one question for our quacky friends:
“Are you related to Uncle Si? Cause I totally want to meet him.”
Some days Isaiah’s Arthrogryposis causes him pain,
so Lizzie is always up for giving him a piggy back ride.
But the highlight of the day was breakin’ the rules.
The crazy thing was that just yesterday I whispered to the Lord,
“Where is a splash pad?
It would be so fun if we could find one for
free.”
And lo and behold, there it was.
We’d been to this park before,
but never in splash pad season…
so I had completely forgotten…
Only thing was that
we had our clothes on.
But ya’ know…
there are just some days we must break the
“if-you-go-in-the-water-in-your-clothes-you-will-get-the-car -upholstery-all-wet-and-besides-we-have-errands-to-run-after-how-would-it-look-to-see-a-bunch-of-soaked-kids-walking-together”
rule..
Cause,
quite frankly,
life is short…
and there are only so many opportunities
to go to a {free} splash pad…
And their expressions tell the story…..
Ruby and I even tried the splash pad,
but she said she actually liked the “no splash pads ever” rule.
haha.
Maybe someday she’ll change her mind.
Um…that looks so fun! I was sweating my face off in the garden (a community garden plot- so not in my backyard) today and I may or may not of splashed myself with the house. No one was around and I was dying so….there's no proof. 🙂
KK
Haha. I love that you splashed yourself. However, if I had been nearby, I would have been more than happy to help out. =)
Looks like a great plan to me! You dry very quickly here anyways!
http://phoenix.about.com/od/publicswimmingpools/ss/splash_2.htm
This link has a list of free splash pads in the area!
I love the link. Thank you. We are going to check some of the out in the next few weeks. I never would have thought of googling it. Thank you!
Looks like a fun time and you clothes and cars dry quickly here this time of year! Here is a link of other free splash pads in the area.
http://phoenix.about.com/od/publicswimmingpools/ss/splash_2.htm
All right, now you did it. You twisted my arm to the breaking point! I WANNA BE THERE! That looked like so much fun! Love the getting wet with your clothes on. So hot anyway it will just evaporate. Course it was cold until 4 pm and then it heated up.
Girlfriend, I could not handle living where you live. No thank you. xo
haha…love it. Nothing better than a splash pad!
Seriously fun.
haha…love it. Nothing better than a splash pad!
Awesome! Tonight we had milkshakes for dinner cause daddy was at a business meeting and Sonic had 1/2 off shakes all day 🙂
You and I would get along really well. =)
love your bending the rules so that everyone can have a good time! fun memories! 😀
It was definitely a memory maker.
She'll change her mind – and breaking the rules is almost always good (at least sometimes!)
hugs – thanks for being REAL –
aus and co.
Because of being so medically fragile, we pray that she will continue to join in the fun…at least we'll keep trying! Bless you Aus.
Awesome linny! I bet they had a blast!
Wish you had joined us.
Oh, we so would have gotten wet! I would have had them run around until they were dry again. It looks like so much fun.
I would have let them run around to dry, but it was getting really hot, the over 100's kind…so I opted to just let us all go home wet. But you're right, otherwise it would have been easy to dry them off.
You're family is precious! Just discovered your blog. Love the work you're doing 🙂
Thank you Rachel. Feel free to stop by Our Place Called Simplicity anytime.
Looks like SO much fun!
I'm so glad I had my camera and could capture the fun.
Love your story. We also went to a splash pad recently while on vacation, and much to my brother's (our host) surprise/shock/dismay my kids were on the splash pad, fully dressed, and well, fully soaked….without reguard to our afternoon schedule. So nice to know that we are not the only 'rule breakers'!
Haha. Perfect. Life's too short to not bend the rules some.