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Where in the World? My Backyard

 Spring time in our backyard

When Ed and I were looking at houses during our first year of marriage, we were looking for a lifetime house. Not our dream house…we knew we wouldn’t be able to find a house of our dreams. We were looking for a house where we could raise our kids; a house in a nice neighborhood, close to a playground, with plenty of room for a family. One of the reasons we bought our house is because of the beautiful backyard.

 Lily and Emmy ran through the sprinkler last weekend;
it was summer weather in May!

Our backyard still needs a lot of work; it doesn’t have fancy landscaping and the grass is patchy in areas, but we love it anyway. It’s a great place to have a backyard party, to sit out on the patio with a beer, or to sit around the fire pit on a chilly night.

Who’s having more fun?
Blowing bubbles at Emmy’s last birthday party.
Our backyard is just a typical backyard in the middle of the suburbs, and sometime I feel like we don’t take full advantage of playing outside. This summer, I want to spend as much time in our beautiful backyard as we can. Sometimes we forgot how lucky we are to have this great place to visit, right outside our own back door.
Lily and Emmy playing in their new sand and water table last summer.


Share your backyard with us! What’s right outside your back door? Or link up any place you’d like…where in the world have you been?

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If Only My Sisters Had Blogs…

…then I might have written a post or two last weekend while my sisters were visiting. But they don’t blog, and so we did things like planting flowers, and sitting on the patio, and flying kites.

 My little sister holding Lily when she was six months old
Memorial Day, 2005

For more memories, visit LT at A Day With Two for Take Me Back Tuesday!

A Day With Two


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P.S. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see my backyard for “Where in the World?” You’ll be able to link up your posts, too…where in the world have you been?