today, ruby & backyard lights.

In honor of Ruby's 3rd birthday {July 9th}, we {all 11 of us} ran a little errand to Home Depot to buy some things needed to build a bigger sand box.

We decided to turn the existing sand box that now resides in our {cottage} vegetable garden into a pumpkin patch.



This means that my little hard working elves and the master slave driver are going to move tons of sand to the new and bigger sand box under our little avocado tree out back.

This way we figured that the 'littles' wouldn't be tempted to pick all our new fruits and veggies while they're on that side of the house-- especially our new {ripe & unripe} tomatoes.

And as any good Mommy would, I figured that with a new and improved sand box we had to add Target to our errand in order to buy some new sand toys for our birthday girl & siblings. I wanted to spread the fun around.



And of course, while shopping in Target and since our anniversary is coming up soon, Chris & I invested in some outdoor patio string lights with the big bulbs to add some night time ambiance for our back yard date nights... oooh la la!