Treehouses.

Yesterday was an "up and down" kind of day.  It started out pretty good, hit a rough spot in the middle, then ended well.  Because of the rough spot in the middle, I did not get a chance to blog yesterday.  I'll get to that in a minute, but for now, I'll tell you about the good part. 

A former neighbor of ours, Amanda, and her kids, Isaac and Ally, are in town for spring break.  Along with our other neighbors, Becky and Tina, we all took our kids to the Botanical Gardens to see the treehouse exhibit.  Even though it was a bit chilly, the kids had a great time wandering through the gardens to each treehouse and climbing into them.  I was amazed at how high some of them were and how fearless the kids were. 

Here's Claire in the first treehouse.  She was not too sure of all of it to start and needed help getting down. . .

Grace enjoyed every minute of climbing into the treehouses.  Claire, on the other hand, would hestitate at each one. . .

We arrived at the Gardens a little later than our neighbors because of Tyler's nap, so here are the girls walking hand and hand searching for their friends. . .

Walking through the woods to get to the next treehouse. . .

The treehouse in the middle of the woods. . .

After so many treehouses, all the kids enjoyed playing with the water for a minute. . .

Then, they climbed on the rocket for a group picture. . .

Last, but not least, here's how my little guy enjoyed the Gardens.  All snug in his stroller, eating his giraffe. . .

We had such a great morning, I had hoped to have a quiet afternoon and get all these pictures on the blog yesterday.  Our computer had something else in mind though.  The short of it is our computer died again.  Last time, our hard drive crashed.  Fortunately, this time all of our data was in tact, but the computer is a goner.  Needlesstosay, we're computer shopping today.