The rest of the weekend (in a nutshell!)

Even though the genius weather forecasters predicted rain for the entire Labor Day weekend, we saw brilliant sunshine pretty much all Saturday through Monday, with temps in the mid-70s. Perfect weather, in my book. When you've got an active young child and you're given the gift of this kind of weather, it means you spend a big chunk of time at the park, which is what we did.

We are blessed with an abundance of beautiful parks where we live. We probably have at least 30 great parks to visit, all of them with their own special appeal. I think we ended up hitting five or six of them over three days. These days, the number one thing Emma wants to do at the park is ride her bike. So we got plenty of that in.


Emma got her "big girl" bike for Christmas. When we first took the bike out this spring, she was pretty cautious and I would walk at a medium pace beside her. Now she's so confident that I really have to go at a slow jog to keep up with her (not that I can't use the exercise!)


Today, we headed to a park we'd never visited before...it was lovely. The park is built around a lake and we walked around the entire thing.


Emma does spend a lot of her park time on the swings. I've probably taken 100 photos of her swinging and I've never been totally happy with any of them. Capturing the perfect picture of a child on a moving swing is difficult at best. But here's my latest attempt.


This picture might have been the one if Emma had been looking at the camera smiling. But there's always one little thing that keeps me from snapping the elusive perfect swing photo...maybe someday.

Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend as much as we did!