Spring Is Finally Here To Stay

Central Texas is a pretty warm place. We usually have to wear coats about 10 - 12 days a year, and light jackets for a bit more. This year has been unseasonably cold. It snowed three times and we had a lot of overnight temperatures in the 30s and 40s. Our highs are now finally above 70 and we even hit 86 degrees one day. Boogs and I have been taking advantage of the gorgeous weather to spend time outside.

The basketball court is the perfect place to hang out on a sunny afternoon before dinner.

We have also added a couple of hammocks to the backyard. They are the perfect spots for reading, relaxing, snoozing and hanging out. At first, we only had the green hammock. I was using it on a Saturday morning. I went inside to get some tea and when I came back out my hammock had been hijacked. Boogs was all settled in with a blanket and a book.

When he got up to go inside for a minute, Daddy came out and stole the hammock from him.

I decided enough was enough. I logged on to Amazon and searched for a two person hammock with a hammock stand. A few days later this beauty came in. Boogs and I have enjoyed hanging out together reading books in the new hammock. There is definitely room for two and it gives us a way for each of us to have our own hammock.

Boogs even takes his hedgehog in the hammock with him while he reads books.

We found a shady spot for the hammock stand. Boogs sometimes takes a snack outside while he hangs out in the hammock.

We took a leisurely 3.5 mile walk on the Brushy Creek Hike and Bike trail on Saturday morning.

It has been quite a while since we have walked on this trail. I reminded Boogs of the time he did a picture scavenger hunt on this trail. He did not remember it. We also used this area to take nature photos that looked like letters for our Alphabet in Nature book we tried to make. Sadly, I think we are still missing 6 letters even though we started about 9 years ago.

This is such a fun area to explore. Surprisingly, Boogs stayed dry the entire time. He didn't even get his feet wet.

I told him to sit in the field of bluebonnets for this year's bluebonnet picture. He was not impressed with the sad little field of bluebonnets.

We challenged each other to a flip contest on the bars.

Boogs won!

Later, we found a better field of bluebonnets for one more picture.

Boogs had fun playing on the playscape for awhile.

He has gotten so tall. He used to have tons of room over his head when he walked through here.

He told me he wanted to jump off of the big rock. It is about 8ft off the ground. I talked him into sitting down on the little ledge on the right side of the rock to jump off. I really did not feel like dealing with any broken bones.

We wandered over to the sandbox at Champion Park. Boogs played around in the sand remembering how much fun he used to have here. We spent HOURS in that sandbox when he was little. Boogs has decided that he has outgrown the desire to play in sandboxes.

 With our recent rains, there was actually water flowing in the creek.

 Everything was so pretty and green.

 It was a long walk back to the car.

I thought it was interesting that the park has added "see say point read" stations near the sandbox. It was kind of neat to see the suggestions.

Hopefully we will have Spring weather for a couple of weeks before our temperature soars into the hot zone.

Happy Easter!

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