I have to share what our kids did for about four hours today. As background, Bradley is an official Cub Scout this year, and at the meeting on Tuesday night they learned how to hammer nails into wood, and all the boys made their very own tool boxes. It was really pretty cool.

So today Brad asked his daddy if he could hammer some wood, now that he has experience. Jeff said, Sure, why not?

So he and Bailey gathered up some wood and started hammering. In a little while, McKenzie and RileyGrace showed up, and soon it was a veritable wood-working frenzy in the garage. They built a little bed for one of the stuffed animals. At one point, I came out and they literally had a structure going up, with walls and a roof beam.

This structure soon ended up in my front yard, and a lemonade stand was born.

As you can see, it wasn't long before they had gotten the attention of several neighbors. Amazing how many kids show up when lemonade is available. It doesn't hurt to live in a neighborhood where kids outnumber grownups by about 30% either.

At one point I counted no less than 12 kids in my front yard. They were just hanging out, having some lemonade. It was so cute, I just about couldn't stand it.

These four have been raised together. They had no chance but to be friends, because they are thrown together so often. But the fact is that they seek each other out constantly, and I love it. They can have fun doing just about anything together.

I think we've got many years to enjoy watching them grow up together. Who knows what adventures the future holds?

Especially with these two...