Grant's Farm

The boys and I joined Uncle Josh, Baylen Colton, Ashley, Kyle, Nicki, and Caiden for a trip to Grant's Farm last Friday.  The weather was awesome and everyone had a great time!  Levi was scared of the goats at first, but all the other boys like it.  We rode the Carousel, checked out the rest of the animals, fed the Llama's and then the adults enjoyed a nice cold beer compliments of Anheuser Busch!  What an awesome morning (the afternoon became terrible, but I'll make a separate post for that)! 

Josh, Colton and Baylen 

Will, Max, me and Levi 

Nicki, Caiden and Kyle 

On the "train" ride, Will, Levi and Max 

Ashley helping scared Levi try to feed the goats. 

Max of course was fearless of the goats!  He loves animals! 

Will..he's not sure what the think, but did it anyway! 

Colton and Baylen loved feeding the goats! 

Crammed in a stroller, Max, Levi and Will 

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Levi and Ashley...Levi was scared of the Carousel at first also, but once it started he liked it! 

Will, he wasn't scared and then when it started he became scared and Ashley had to put her arms around him!

Checking out the Elephant!  Levi, Will and Max 

Max feeding the Llama! 

Will and Levi waiting for the "train"! 

Max, Levi and Will waiting for the "train"!

Fun in the Sun!

Since it was very warm this afternoon, Dale and I decided to turn on the sprinkler and see what the boys would do.  Max loved it at first sight, Will loved it after investigating it for a minute or two, Levi was very skeptical and once he touched it stayed far, far away!  Will and Max played in the sprinkler forever.  They ran under it, ran their hands through it, sat on it and even drank it!  Meanwhile Levi was off in his own little dry and comfortable world playing with trucks and swinging.  They then all played in the sandbox while Daddy grilled dinner.  It was a great afternoon outside in the hot sun!

Max, Will and Levi

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A Mother's Day Surprise!

First I will share my real Mother's Day Surprise!  The boys each gave me a card, some flowers for the Barn, and a Magnolia Tree for the Barn.  The boys helped Dale plant the flowers and the tree and I look forward to watching my tree bloom year after year!  Ok, now to my other surprise!

I know this is quite disgusting, but I wanted to post a picture of my Mother’s Day surprise. I want the boys to remember the stories of their childhood! In a perfect world I would want them to look back and say “You are so wonderful to put up with us, you’re the best mom in the world”, but I know better. They’ll see this and just laugh, but that’s okay I am actually laughing too! You can’t have kids without a good poop story or two!


Anyway, I go in the boys room Sunday morning looking forward to the “mornin’” greetings I usually get, but instead when I open the door Will is completely naked and there are turds scattered around the room. Some were smeared into the carpet, there were smears on their sheets and of course there were smears on all of the boy’s hands and feet! As we are cleaning up I see a toy nail on the floor when I picked it up I realized that it must have been the tool of choice to do the smearing. Ahhhh…the joys of motherhood!

A Mother's Day Project!

Friday we took advantage of the nice weather and did a Mother’s Day project outside.  We painted vases for all of their grandma’s.  They painted with brushes, sponges and their hands.  Of course paint landed on much more than just the vases, but they had fun and made their grandma’s beautiful vases!  We later went to the store where they picked out bright pink and white roses to fill the vases.

Levi, Will and Max 

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The finished project (without the roses we added later that day)! 

Two Year Stats!

The boys had their 2 year check-up today.  They are all doing well and it is just amazing how far they have come since they were born and weren't even on the growth chart.  Here are their 2 year stats!

Will
Height  36"  90%                       
Weight  25 lb. 6 oz.   25%

Max
Height  35.5"  75%
Weight  28lb.   50%

Levi
Height  35"   Between 50-75%
Weight  23lb. 6 oz.    Between 5-10%

Planting a Vegtable Garden!

We planted our first vegetable garden yesterday.  It was so much fun!  We planted sweet corn, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, beets, carrots, onions, tomatoes, and peppers.  We hope to add eggplant and green beans in the next few weeks.  The boys helped plant the onions and tomatoes.  They had fun, but our onion row may be crooked as they were just kind of sticking them where they wanted.  Max picked the tomato plants as we were planing them, but we finally got them all planted as they should be.  Hopefully we will get lots of home grown vegetables this summer!

Dale using his new tractor and disc to get the garden ready! 

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Dale planting sweet corn. 

Me, Levi and Will planting onions. 

Max planting onions. 

Levi workin'! 

Will showing Dale his onion! 

Max "helping" Dale plant tomatoes! 

The finished garden!  hopefully in a few weeks we will start to see some progress!