Loving the summer

We are all incredibly enjoying summer!  Whether we are at home or at the cabin, you can normally find the Heuer's outside.  Two weekends ago we were at home and filled the weekend up with a sleepover for Emma, working on our soon-to-be 4 season porch, picking strawberries, a graduation party, dinner dates, biking, church, and outside!  Whew!

Emma has been missing her school friends a bit lately (actually, ending school is quite tough on the girl as she loves it and her friends there) so we invited her friend Lauryn over for a sleepover on Friday night.  Instantly the girls were giggling, running, and having a great time. They played outside a lot and played with Emma's Lego playsets even more.  They played so well together I rarely knew the girls were over.  Emma was sad to see Lauryn go on Saturday morning, but she was happy to help out Tim and Evan in the backyard working on the porch.

Tim and I have been talking about screening in our deck for awhile.  There were pros and cons with that, so we decided to build an unattached three season porch off our deck.  Tim enjoyed designing and doing the work and because I know someone that can get a good deal on windows and doors, we decided to go or it.  Evan has been excited for the building project and being able to help Daddy and Emma has been excited to have a bit more space to get away from her brother.  :-)

As this is only a Heuer project, it will take a few weeks (or a month or two or three) before it is done but we are excited and looking forward to it nonetheless. Everyone is chipping in:

Evan was busy helping Tim mix the cement

Notice the hands??  Or mittens that is?

He HAD to wear working gloves since Tim was, but we couldn't find his at the moment.

The site of our future 4 season porch.

Emma enjoyed helping too when Lauryn left.

The next big event of the past few weekends?? Evan learned how to ride a bike without training wheels!  He has been excited for awhile for us to take the training wheels and two weekends ago we did it!  It took him a few tries, but he picked it up pretty quickly!

We had him ride Emma's old bike at first, since the training wheels were already off that one.  He wasn't a huge fan of that, but his excitement to try and ride the two wheeler won out.

Sunday though, Tim took off the training wheels on his own bike.  He was even happier!

He likes to ride on the grass as he goes a little slower and it doesn't hurt if he falls.

The last excitement of two weekends ago?? Making a strawberry pie with our own strawberries from our own garden!  YUM!

Evan has been my little helper in our strawberry patch and helps pick them every other day. So, when he made the suggestion to make a pie, I couldn't turn him down. And, who doesn't love strawberry pie?!

So - that's that.  Tales of two weekends ago. :-)