July in Christmas

Some people celebrate Christmas in July, but we are currently celebrating "July in Christmas". With the temperatures in the upper 70's this week, it certainly has felt like summer. I think we'll see winter come again tomorrow, so we spent all morning playing outside. We spent most of the time in the sandbox. I think I mentioned that they are laying new water pipes on our street. Well, we also laid pipes in the sandbox. We used sticks as pipes and had to dig up the "road" to get to the pipes. I hope the contractors do a better job than we did. Somehow, we kept having to dig up our pipes again and re-lay them.

As you can see from the picture, our sandbox looks like a Tonka commercial. We have a Tonka dumptruck, Tonka crane, Tonka front loader and a Tonka Jr. dumptruck. With all those, plus our shovels and hoes, there almost wasn't room for the boys. The real problem came when Scooter decided to bring a real pipe into the sandbox. It was quite funny to watch them manuver through all that stuff.

Of course, one advantage to it not being July is there is no humidity and there are no mosquitoes. Plus, when do you get to play in a big pile of leaves in July? That was the other big activity of the day around here. We threw all the leaves in the air and watched them fall again. Sorry Daddy -- you'll have to rake your piles again! :)

Just to prove that it really is December, here is a picture of the boys visiting with Santa Claus. Santa visits our local library each year. It is the best thing in the world because the crowds are small, and I can take as many pictures as I want with my own camera. Plus, "free" is much better than paying Mall prices. The boys are wearing their jammies because it is part of the library's monthly "pajamarama" evening storytime series.