Car Tires + Phone = Bad News

I had some fun photos on my phone camera to post... however, I ran over the phone with the car.  The phone was unrecoverable so thankfully the plan that the hubby bought included insurance on the phone of some sort.  I have a new one for minimal cost.  However, all of the photos are gone.  Oh well.

So, here's the fun around here:
 - Visit to Iowa to see my parents for a few days and visit with Abby and family.
 - Swimming fun
 - Hosted our annual block party which is always great fun and some chaos.
 - Baby shower for our sweet friend, Darcey, whose little one is arriving in a month.
 - Swimming.  Did I mention that?
 - Garden is growing.  As in I could possibly have a large number of tomatoes, beans and cucumbers in a month or so.  I will be ecstatic if my efforts at growing things pays off.

Off for more summer fun and hopefully a few photos :+)

Hit the Ball... Drag the Bag

My dad used to say, "that's the name of the game: hit the ball, drag the bag."  For mother's day I requested a family bike ride and golf.  The boys love their little bags, and seriously, isn't it just cuteness to see the little shoulder straps on them?

Happy Mothers' Day to me: they like golfing and biking, too.

Friends

Jonathan was invited to a friend's birthday party... pirate fun was had by all!

Our school had a road race and we met several friends there to run in the rainy, COLD race.  Another mother and I helped with the course directing and while I was course directing... our boys got spray painted hair :+)

Cousins.  All kinds of fun.

Our new pet, Lizzie

I'm not so much of an animal lover, but the little furry creatures are growing on me.  It has been mentioned before that Jonathan loves animals.  Caleb likes them, too.  They've been hoping and hoping for a pet, so we got a guinea pig.  She's actually quite a gem of a pet.  She likes to be held, she doesn't bite, she resides in her cage unless being held and she poops inside the cage.  An all around gem of a pet.

 Two very happy little boys

Photo Dump

It snowed at the end of April.  That's some craziness for here.  The only fun we had with the last snowfall was when it was melting... see the attempt at dam construction below.

From the zoo to you:

Jonathan's budding career as an author:

Play date with school friends, Jack and Ethan:

My ideas

I get these ideas... then they get a little bigger... and a little bigger.  And, God bless the man I married: he likes my ideas and goes with them and moves things and sets things up.  He's basically awesome.  I wanted to do an Easter Egg Hunt for our neighbors, then I decided it would be fun to invite our small group since they all live quite close to us, then I wanted to have brunch... The end result was a fantastic (and quite chaotic) time with lots of neighbors and lots of kids and lots of food.

And, here we are: actually all smiling, ready to leave for Easter church service.  It is nothing short of a miracle that the precariously perched camera didn't crash to the ground AND that I managed to get us all in the shot with the timer.

Grammie and Grampie's Egg Hunt

My mother and father brought some fun stuff for an egg hunt for their four grandsons when they came a couple of weeks ago.  What fun!