Surprise Fort

Last week we took the kids to the park after dinner. We played freeze tag as a family and it was one of the most fun evenings I've had.
One time everyone was frozen except Neely, and of course Jess, who was it. Neely was our only hope, and we called out to her for help. She ran the other way, laughing at us over her shoulder. Totally left us hangin'.
She got what was comin' to her a second later. Ha.
We were laughing so hard, and even got some rare exercise. I love the pic above, of Neely about to be frozen. She kind of seemed to understand that we had to freeze and not move sometimes, but wasn't sure when it was supposed to happen. So she'd just randomly stop running and hold perfectly still, which is when she'd often end up getting caught, like in the pic above.

Grammy and Grampy came by this weekend with a surprise for Cason. Grammy had repainted doll houses for Paige and Lily, so she decided Cason needed something too. They built, and Grammy painted, an AWESOME fort for his superheroes. They unveiled it, and he was obviously happy, but we didn't get to see his usual awesome response to gifts, because I think he wasn't sure what it was for at first.

But once he found out, he was really happy.
The thing is so cool. It has 2 slides, one which leads to the outside, a firepole, and even what Jess calls a multimedia command center on the right side of the bottom floor.
He also got a locking treasure chest, but Neely sort of took it over.
Grammy set guys up along the roof of the fort, so the guys could shoot them down.
It's getting lots of use.