Well, here I am in sunny Phoenix and I am spending the entire day catching up on my emails and reading everyone's blog. I got the best Mother's Day present EVER from all of my children, their spouses and Mike. They surprised me with a boxed swingset/playhouse and then spent the next 8 hours putting it together. It was so much fun watching them work together. I was mostly inside the house watching the grandchildren, thus keeping them out of the way. We took several excursions to check on the progress. They VERY best part was the JOY in the faces of the grandkids when it was done and they got to play on it. (Note: so far we've logged in two injuries....) And the coolest part (as Sarah pointed out) is that there is nothing to pickup when they are through playing with it. It will be so nice to have something for them to go play on when they come for their Sunday dinners. Note: pictures to follow when I get home to my real computer. (I am using Mike's laptop and having a heck of a time typing on it. I keep running all of my words together.

Now I have to figure out a way to zero landscape the area so that it will be easy to take care of.