Free Comic Book Day, Bike Rides and May the Fourth Be With You

I bet you're beginning to wonder where we get all this time on the weekends.  The wonderful thing about our life is that The Hubbs is able to be Mr. Homemaker Dude while The Princess is in school and I'm at work.  That really cuts down on the encroachment of errand-running into family time.

This was another big weekend.  Somebody may have kind of bought two new mountain bikes with a recent unexpected bonus from work (no names mentioned...ahem).  And that somebody may have done so on Sunday of last week, just before five solid days of rain.  Yeah.

Our new his-and-hers Schwinn Sidewinder 26" mountain bikes

So...guess what we wanted to do when we woke up on Saturday to find the sun shining cheerfully through our windows?

There's The Hubbs, towing The Princess on my new bike, giving it a shot.
You see, I've always towed her in the past, so this is his maiden voyage.
Next order of business: find a couple more trailer hitches so we can hook
her up to any of our full-sized bikes with the tandem trailer.  Because,
let's face it, he probably doesn't want to keep riding the
hot pink chick bike. :)

Batgirl, ladies and gentlemen,
complete with hot pink cape!

In honor of Free Comic Book Day (the first Saturday in May each year),
we dressed up in our comic-y finest: Captain America, Wonder Woman
and, of course Batgirl, and toured the local libraries and comic book
shops to collect all the free comics we could get our grubby grabbers on.

In the end, we got 21 free comics.  My only regret is passing on the Hello
Kitty book at our first stop.  Never did find another copy, and it looked
so cute!  And that's our puppy, Sookie, photobombing in the upper left
corner.

After a yummy, homemade pancake breakfast, we
headed out to Wally World this morning for a staple
or two.  Doesn't The Princess look extremely
sophisticated in this very grown-up helmet?

On our way home from swimming, we stopped at a small nature preserve
area that we've only been to once before.  It's a nice, short trail that's great
for certain little girls who need to blow off some steam.
What I want to know is this: who determines what is a weed?
Because this dandelion is pretty.

Trees are getting ready to spread their leaves and throw some shade.

Certain little girls, blowing off steam. :)

Pretty little yellow flowers in a marshy area.

Moss is so cool if you look at it up close.

Birch log

Dainty little flowers

This nature preserve has an old foundation in the middle of it.  Not sure
if these flowers were left over from previous landscaping, or if they're
growing there wildly.  Either way, they're pretty.

And this is from our front yard - our first tulip
bloom of the year!

Last but not least, here's our own little Jedi wishing you a very happy
Star Wars Day with her light saber.  

Happy Geekend, y'all!  It's not every year we have Free Comic Book Day and Star Wars Day back-to-back, so I hope you were all able to take advantage.  May the Fourth be with you!