Happy Easter... sorry I'm late

The best thing about Easter this year was having my Dad here to celebrate with us. The boys especially had fun playing with papa.

Dave and Emily came over too. Sweet shirt Dave!
I painted those, and they turned out pretty good, if I do say so.
Can you see the egg in the bushes? Cause Trey can't.

Roomba Baby

I love our roomba. So do the boys. We make Trey do "The Roomba Dance" every time before we turn it on. Smith follows the roomba around the room like a little puppy. So then we thought maybe he could ride it...

I love Ikea

I pretty much want to buy everything I see there, every time we go. We went there the other day, just for fun. We had no intention of buying anything, but I just can't get out of there for less the hundred dollars. Yikes!



This time we got, amongst other things, a play mat with roads on it for Trey, and a bunch of train stuff for his birthday coming up. We also got this sweet vid of Nate and Trey playing on the shopping carts. Nate is such a good role model.

Chillin

I’m way behind on the blog. I’ve got lots on to catch up on, so check back soon. For now here is a pic of Smith chillin’ at home.

My sweat crazy wife in the spring.

So at some point this morning I rolled over to snuggle my sweet Julie but she was gone. I thought that she had moved to get away from my snoring, but that was not the case. Julie had become fed up with the lovely song of a morning spring Robin. So she decided that It needed to DIE or the next best thing to fly far away. What did she do you ask? Well pre-dawn she went out side and gathered up a bunch of rocks and went on a sleep deprived rage to kill all the nice birds that sang. Julie was able to move the bird from one tree in the yard to the next tree. She did this dance for a few minutes until it flew away. Julie proudly announced that the bird was inches from certain death. Julie will be armed with my paintball gun next time some stupid bird come ah callin'.


NOTE: First of all I would like to thank Nate for contributing to our blog. Even if the first story he shares makes me sound like a crazy person.

Second I would like to point out that same bird has been showing up at my window at 5:30 AM for a week! And I don't think that 5:30 is an appropriate time of day to be woken up any day of the week, least of all on a Sunday. --julie

Have a Picky Eater?

Why not try sauerkraut?
It's fun to eat,
and tastes great!
Even though he made lots of weird faces, and often had to close his eyes as he took a bite, he willingly ate two plates of the stuff. It was like watching fear factor. I knew he didn't like it, but he just kept going.

Before...

These are my before shots. Hopefully in 4 or 5 months I will get to post a picture of a large, green, weed free and successful garden with baskets and baskets of delicious vegetables that my family just can't wait to gobble up.

I like to try a few unusual things each year, just for fun. This year I picked purple carrots, cheese squash, and red yard long bean (the pods will actually get up to 3 feet long!).

Here's the rest of the menu: Sweet onions, scallions, butternut squash, cucumbers, crookneck, zucchini, beans, and carrots. In additions to the seeds above, I plan to plant a few tomatoes and peppers.