April 7

Since there's rain in the forecast later this week, I encouraged the brositos to go outside and play catch this afternoon.

So they grabbed Brady's new ball and headed out back.

Then they came back inside a little later and announced, with great determination, that they were going to build a boat. In the yard by the pool.   

I didn't think much of it at the time because... a boat? In the yard? 

But after Isaac went to the gym, they drove over to Lowe's together and returned with wood --a lot of wood-- and several blue buckets. And screws. 

And then they literally built a raft. They picked it up and lowered it into the hot tub to confirm that it would float. It did, but they still want to add more buckets to add to the buoyancy. So that's tomorrow's project.

But I'm impressed with their ingenuity. And I'm grateful that God blessed them with creativity and a desire to get things done. (And yeah, I'm also grateful that they didn't spend the whole day playing video games. And I think it's a little funny that they built a boat when there's rain a'comin'.)