Adventures

As tired as I have been for the past few weeks, I sure have enjoyed how much fun my little guys bring to our lives. A few weeks ago, my parents came for a visit and then took Samuel to the ranch in Utah with them (after I kept them busy rearranging furniture, pulling weeds, helping with a garage sale, and entertaining the kids). I'm so proud of Sam and how good he did while he was gone. Here's what he says about his trip: "I droove (past tense of drive) the John Deere tractor (he really did drive it all by himself!). I went to a round up and saw JW (my cousin's son, who is 5). Grandpa gave me rides on the ATV. I rode a horse named Rusty and chased a goose. I gave the red ants bread and watched them carry it." He also came home saying we should name our baby Kelli, after my cousin that he played with. He got to hang out with all my cousins...I was jealous! But, I don't think riding around in a bouncy water truck or standing out on the range all day while pregnant would have been good for me.


And here is a picture of my dad and my uncle (both in their 60's) working together at the ranch. Yes, that's my dad standing on the scoop of a tractor cutting tree branches with a chainsaw. It exemplifies the crazy things brothers come up with together, or just how males think in general. On one of last week's rainiest days, my husband was installing an electrical outlet in the backyard, and this week, he was fixing the weedwhacker with rain and thunder all around him. And his guy friends are always so proud to hear about these stunts.

We had our anniversary this week. My bouquet of flowers even had a butterfly in it, so Jeremy did good.
We went for a walk in the woods with our kids...even though it only lasted 45 minutes at the most, Sam thought it was an adventure and was already planning our next walk--"Can we go on another walk today? Like when my baby is born and I'm 9 or 10?"

Today, we went to some garage sales as a family. The excuse was to look for things for the baby girl. Here's what we bought:
(Not pictured, rack for Jeremy's car, banana bread, 2 lemonades, and a Starbucks coffee that was used to lure Jeremy out of the house at 7 am). As you can see, no little girl stuff. We did find an awesome bike for Sam ($5) and he was riding it without training wheels on his first try--I was so proud!
Here's some other park pictures--this time there weren't any renegade 2 year olds bullying my kids, just some shady characters asking to borrow Jeremy's cell phone.





(Evan's hair is not sticking up because of the static electricity on the slide, it always looks like that. I guess I need to cut it or something.) It was crazy that I thought about grabbing sunscreen and brought hats to the park and we had to leave an hour later as a huge thunderstorm suddenly hit.

And tonight, I had to take a picture of Evan (it was his birthday today, by the way--we celebrated with my parents last week and will celebrate tomorrow with Jeremy's parents) inspecting the sliding drawer of the dishwasher...he is so intrigued with how it works. This time he even brought his toy drill with him. I said to Sam, "I think Evan wants to be Handy Manny when he grows up. Sam replied, "OR Spiderman." I guess he knows his brother better than I do.
Happy Birthday Evan!