Where there is a "Will" (and Wyatt and Ben") There is a Way!

Piggy backing off my last post of not having many accessible parks and trails the boys have become quite creative this week!  A couple days ago we had our own driving range in the back yard!

With an empty lot next to us they have lots of space to do this!  Now their challenge is to hit it over the neighbors fence on the other side of the lot!  And they have met their challenge a few times!!! Thankfully the neighbor is nice and said she would just throw the balls over when she sees them.

Another creative idea they have done is is their own gym/American Ninja Warrior obstacle course.  The boys are obsessed with this show. So they decided to create their own gym (THE FIERCE GYM) and make it an obstacle course!  Click on their names below and you can watch each one run through them! Oh, I should mention, Will and Wyatt don't quite make it through the tube run at the end but it is quite comical! 

First we have Ben running through the course!  Then we have Wyatt!  And last but not least, Will!  

I am pretty proud of these boys for being so creative.  They have had lots of fun with it.  They have a course at the neighbors too that includes their 6 foot fence!  I haven't seen them do it yet but I can only imagine!!!  :)  

So, even though in my last post I was complaining about the parks and recreation...or lack there of we have found the positive in it and created our own! Who knows...we may have the next American Ninja Warrior Champion on our hands!  

Cheers to fitness!!!!!

Parks and Recreation...maybe?

Living here in Oklahoma we are quickly learning there just isn't the parks, lakes and trail systems that Minnesota has. We all are really missing them.  Minnesota is so abundant of trails and lakes and parks that no matter which way you turn you have one.  Here in Oklahoma, you have to drive at least 30 minutes...sometimes more...to find a park or lake and some trails.  And...those are mostly State Parks. Which aren't bad, just not your run-of-the-mill parks that Minnesota has.

The boys and I have had to become creative with finding things to do that don't always cost money.  Where we spend most of our time is our neighborhood pool but I even think they might be getting a little bored of that.  Other than that we have been to the roller rink, movies, shopping (costs money), skating at the rink, walking down to the creek to look for craw fish, turtles and what ever fun "boy" stuff we can find. and then just going on bike rides, roller blading, and running on the trails we do have in our neighborhood. These are the best trails we have found yet.

We will continue to search for some fun (free) parks and lakes to go to as we have made it an adventure!  But in the mean time...we are missing the Land of 10,000 lakes!!!

I scream...You scream...We all scream for...Snow Cones???

Yes, snow cones.  There is a snow cone (or shaved ice as they say here) stand about every few miles!  So cool to see all the different ones!  In Minnesota we have Dairy Queens every few miles, but here it is snow cone stands!  Here are three of them that we pass a lot. 

 So on hot hot days we all scream for snow cones here in Oklahoma!