Easter and Spring 2013

Easter Egg Hunting 

Spring Concert 2013

Kitchen, Color Run and More...

Depsite the lack of blogging, lots has been happening in our lives lately!  I am nearing the end of my over-1-year-long kitchen up-do project.  My dad came over a couple weekends ago and put up the rest of the tile.  Now I have to grout it and it will officially be done.  And, truthfully, it makes the rest of my house look pretty shabby, so we may be looking at up-doing a couple other rooms in the house!  :)

The kids have been enjoying the really nice weather by playing in the sand and riding bikes.  Carter loves finding lizards in the sand! 

On October 6 my sister and I and some friends ran in the Color Run in Lawrence.  It was a blast!! This race was the funnest, not-boring-est race I've ever done!  It was also a real confidence booster as I finished in 24 minutes!  (Only 3 minutes behind my speedy sister!!)  I'm pretty sure it was not a full 3.1 miles, but it sure was worth the drive to Lawrence!!

(Jamie, Brandi, me, Erica)

(me & Tiff)

Living Life

Blogging has obviously slowed down some.  We are just living life.  And loving life.  Carter so far has not once begged to stay home from school, but is enjoying his days off.  Gemma is getting louder and louder and finding her voice as well as her words.  She adores her brother, "Ky", as she calls him, and follows him everywhere trying to do just as he does.  

I am gearing up for some much needed fall cleaning and hopefully purging.  We have accumulated too much stuff over time and it's time we pare down.  Plus the weather's nicer so that makes it a little easier.  :)

Halloween will soon be here - I should start working on the kids' costumes.  I think they should be Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, but since I showed him a picture on Pintrest of Fred and Wilma Flinstone, that's Carter's pick.  Either way, a couple of bath towels should make for some fairly easy costumes.  

Additions

We have two new critters on the farm:

The grey striped one is Cowboy (guess who named that one?) and the yellow one is Firecracker (Carter has since renamed him Firework.  I still call him Firecracker)

 They are loved to death - quite literally.  

 They are fought over

 And loved some more.

 They like their corner outside.  :)

Yes, loved to the death.  

Thanks Grandma Donna and Papa Dave.  You've made two grandkids very happy indeed.  I'm not sure about the cats, though...

Spectators

Carter is playing T-Ball this summer.  When we first thought about signing him up, we talked about how this was going to cost Mom & Dad money and that if he started it, he was going to play the whole time.  Did he really, really want to play?  Oh, yes.  He sure did.  The first night of practice - "I'm NOT playing."  Great.  But, much to my surprise, he walked out on that field with his glove and bat and never looked back.  He is loving T-Ball!!  He mostly pays attention and really spends less time playing in the dirt than some other kids on his team!  :)  Jeremy's parents have faithfully attended all the practices, just because they love watching him so much!!

Gemma love the practice to.  She's working on her sneaky skills - she tries so hard to sneak by you to get out on the field with the boys and the one girl on the team!!  But most times, she's pretty content to sit in the dugout next to her Daddy.  I can usually be found sitting in the stands, trying not to yell too much.  It's only T-Ball practice, after all!!

His first game is on Thursday - and he can't wait.  But not because he gets to play ball, but because he knows that Papa Dave and Grandma Donna are bringing something with them, that will come home with us.  Stay tuned... :)

Slippery

Carter has been asking since spring break if we could get out his slip n' slide.  I finally let him do it on Monday.  It was a great day for it.  Since the sprinkler was not a big hit with my kids, this seemed to go over much better.  A good time was had by all!

Sahara

Memorial weekend brings a tradition that has been going on for 4 or 5 years now.  We get together with a couple other families and go camping.  The first year we camped at Garrison Beach, then over the years, Tuttle Creek has been up and made it pretty yucky, so we ventured to other places such as Carnahan Cove and Milford Lake.  This year we went back to Garrison.  Saturday was hot and windy, which didn't bother us too much, as were in the water most of the day.  But come evening, the wind was practically unbearable!  The sand was blowing in your face, pelting the backs of your legs and during the night was blowing IN the tent. I think it was pretty much unanimous to never camp there again.  Yes, it was that bad.  

But, we did have fun - here's the proof.  

Posing Contest: 

 Gemma has decided that yes, she could be friends with the sand.

 Carter and his friend AJ - very much the outdoorsmen...

 They were building teepees and "fires" all day.  

 

 Gemma and Emmett (who is about 3 weeks younger than her) played together, but they didn't like it.  :)