Tragedy Struck

How could such a nice beautiful day that consisted of this.........

Rusty, isn't he the cutest little guy you have ever seen.

Sliding down the slide into the pool, on of my favorite summer past times. Jocelyn, Kaden, Kennedy, and Kaylee(on the swing)

The gang, Cole, Kennedy, Jocelyn, Kaden, Kaylee, and Jessie

One more picture of the cutie pie!!! I just couldn't resist.

End in tragedy.(or at least to a three year old, and our check book) I know what you're all thinking, no one got hurt!!! Thank goodness. The kids had a fun morning playing the back yard with our good friends Rich and Allison's kids, while Allison and I visited. They played for about a hour and half. Then fast forward five hours. Being the forgetful and not so smart person I am, I forgot to roll up the umbrella to our patio set. Can you imagine where this is going? Well, the wind decided to pick up around four. I was sitting in the living room when I her Jocelyn yelling, "No, my umbrella, no, my table." My heart sank and I ran into the back yard to see the table on it's side, chairs scattered around the yard, and the umbrella nowhere to be seen. Panic set in, where did the umbrella go, and after double checking the back yard, I ran out to the front. I looked to my right and then to my left. I spotted it lying in my neighbors front yard. I ran to it grabbed it and attempted to carry it back to my house. This was not a easy task, since the wind was still blowing and I couldn't get the dang thing to roll in. I finally got it rolled in and it's now sitting in the garage waiting for Cris to get home and look at it. Jocelyn is still hysterical at this point crying "my umbrella broke my table broke I can't sit outside any more." I then go outside to clean up the mess. It was quite the mess, glass was everywhere. I didn't get pictures of the mess but this in my garbage can after the clean up.

Here is "Jocelyn's" poor table and chairs, looking really lonely without the umbrella and glass.

It will probably cost $100 to get new glass, and we'll have to see if the umbrella is fixable, if not it will be another $100. Dang wind! You think that I'd remember to roll it up. After all we have had many trampoline incidences till we learned to tie it down.

On a side note, anyone know how to get glass out of the grass without picking it up one piece at a time?