Oh, ya know...

Things are happening at the Simpson house!  As you know, we moved into a new house in February and with a new house (read: built in 2013) comes a lot of work.  Let me elaborate.  Lennar built our neighborhood of 18 homes (among zillions of other homes in zillions of other neighborhoods) and they do a great job building these homes.  The homes in our neighborhood all came with an upgraded granite kitchen (including most appliances), tank-less water heater, fancy alarm system and keyless entry and a cool irrigation system.  What Lennar does not give you is flooring, window treatments, fireplace (well, they can do that as an upgrade, but we bought our house too late in the construction process for that - gah!), a backyard and in the case of our particular home, a good front yard. 

So, little by little we have been doing all of the above and a few extras.  It’ll take a while before our house is complete (house warming party 2015?!), but we are making progress and currently underway is our backyard.  Being able to play, BBQ, entertain, enjoy s ‘mores and other such backyard activities await us and we cannot be more excited.  I will post the entire “before and after” story once it is completed, but here are a few pics of the recent progress! 

This is the "giant sandbox" phase.

In other home and neighborhood news, three babies were born this summer in our neighborhood, so the kid count goes to somewhere around 25.  Crazy, right?!  Here are a few recent pics of some of the neighborhood fun!

Want the kids to sit still?  Let them eat cake!

S 'mores!

This is Avery nailing the long jump at a birthday party.  Mad skills!

Waiting in line for the javelin...littlest in line really close to a friend.

And, finally, some more pictures (of shenanigans, of course).  Okay, I'm retiring "shenanigans."  I've typed it too much and now it's not fun.

Legoland on my lunch break to visit this sweet group.

The CUTENESS!

Look closely.  Avery is totally schooling Jeff on how to dig a hole.

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(note: when she says "eat in her playroom" she means play with her little kitchen and "make" and "eat" things.  She could do that for hours on end!)