Our New 'Backyard'

As I have mentioned several times, we have very limited space in this apartment and no yard. Our complex had a very old tennis/basketball court that was fenced in right next to our apartment. Unfortunately, in March they decided to tear it down.  I was really sad because it was the easiest way to get our boys outside.  There was no shade and there were cracks everywhere, but the boys could run around and throw things with a fence to keep everything enclosed.  It has taken until this last week, but they finally removed all the concrete and we now have dirt!  We asked if they were going to put in a new court, but they said that are just doing grass.  That would be good, except so many people around here have dogs, it will just become a pooping yard.  People are not very good about picking up after their dogs.  Hopefully it will be nice to some grass, I just don't want to clean up dog crap from my kids' shoes every time we try to play.

Before most of the demolition.  They had already taken the net, fence, and basketball goals down.

It looked like this for a good solid month at least.  Nice and safe for children.

We now have lovely dirt!  Damon was again nervous about playing in the dirt, but he had shoes on this time so he warmed up much faster!

Kyler likes to dump the dirt on the sidewalk.  I think after I made him clean it up the third time he caught on and kept the dirt with the dirt!

Very carefully he picked up the rocks and began throwing them.  He has never had a problem throwing rocks at a pond, but for some reason he was unsure this time.

Climbing the 'big' mountain

Of course we had to find the BIG rocks/clumps of dirt!

It took two boys to shove that one in the bucket.

Building a tent in their room with Daddy

 A rare picture of me with one of the boys

And the dreaded pregnancy pics.  This is me at 36 weeks.  I am measuring 'normal' this time around so no one can tell me that I don't look big!

I hope my children appreciate these pictures later because I hate taking pictures of me!