Saturday: work hard, play hard

I'm too lazy to catch up our whole week right now, because Saturday's post will be long enough. Here's how it went...

Kenny and I woke up early to start on the weeding. Our plan was to rid our yard of the jungle that is quickly overtaking us. We got up at 6 to go out there. Not only were our kids still sleeping, but it's not quite so hot yet. (This week has been extremely hot! It was in the 90's all week, with a heat index of between 100 and 110!) But we got quite a bit done. I was in and out because of the kids, but they were outside with us quite a bit too. They got so tired from watching us work they had to come in and relax to a movie.

hahaha oh the life of a child; play and rest, play and rest. After lunch, showers, and naps we headed out for the rest of the day.

We drove out to Belleville (40 min. away) to drop off a Book of Mormon to a lady Kenny works with. While there we stopped at Eckerts to pick our own peaches. They drove us out in this wagon, being pulled by a tractor.

I'm not sure if Kenny ate more, or picked more. He was in heaven! They were the juiciest, sweetest peaches I've ever had though. Perfection on a tree! We both talked of having some peach trees in our yard someday.

Tyler was really excited about picking his own fruit. We kept having to remind him to ask us if it was a good one before he picked it. He would have had the bottom half of those trees cleaned off pretty quickly if we didn't watch closely :)

After that we went to Cahokia Mounds. The Visitor's Center was closed, so we just went up Monk's Mound, the biggest one and checked out the area. It was a big city inhabited from between A.D. 700 and 1400, with its peak around A.D. 1050 and 1200. The mounds are still here.

You had to climb a lot of stairs to get to the top. This set below was only half of them.

But there are no mountains to obstruct any view, so you can see forever in all directions. Below you can see downtown St. Louis.

And the cutest little girl too :)

After stopping for dinner and a few groceries, we came home to quickly do baths, scriptures and bed. Then Kenny and I each enjoyed a big bowl of fresh peaches with brown sugar and milk. My favorite :). It was a long, wonderful day.