Kids!!!

Oh how I love those babies of mine!  They CAN be so sweet and loving and other times they might just send me to the mad house one day!  But its the sweet moments they have through out the day that I will always remember and remind me that in the end its all worth it!  We have been doing really well lately.  Kids are happy and healthy.  Its been nice outside, so we've been out to the park a lot.  We've also had a couple nice hot sunny days where I can get out our teeny-tiny little pool that nobody wants to sit in, just stand in.  We also have a little water table the Elliott loves.  I will have to get the camera out next time we play out on the back deck.  But for now, here are some recent photos that I took while we were at the park one day a couple weeks ago...

                                                      

      Sure do love these guys!!

xoxoxo

Footprints...

Last weekend Steve's dad and step-mom, Clayton and Rose, as well as Steve's brother, Mike, came to visit last weekend.  It was a wonderful visit, the kids had lots of fun getting to know their "Omah and Opah" and their "Uncle Mike".  And I had fun cooking and baking for a big crowd.  Making cinnamon buns, baked fench toast, and homemade donuts (oh they were heaven, hehe) just to name a few things!  Along with our visitors they also brought with them a turkey, a giant 25 pound turkey!  It was wonderful to have a turkey dinner, with all the fixings, in May!  But there was a lot of left overs, alot!  We couldn't possibly eat it all, and sadly I forgot to throw the 2 ziplock bags full of turkey in the freezer.  So as I was cleaning out the fridge I discovered the turkey and thought I should probably throw it out since it had been sitting in there for a while.  Instead of taking it out of the ziplock bags and throwing it in the compost, where it belongs (because we all know how fun that can be!) I just tossed them in the garbage (I know, I know, i'm horrible and lazy, but honestly lets face it people, it GROSS!!  lol).  As the garbage started to fill up over the next couple of days, Steve decides to put the garbage out on our back deck and thinks to himself he will later place it in the locked shed.  Well, that didn't happen!  The next morning Steve gets up to find that some animal had gotten into the garbage bag and went right for the turkey!  I was in the shower at the time, so Steve had kindly cleaned it all up for me, what a sweet guy, :)   But it had left a small grease stain on the deck.  I poured some water over it to try to clean it up, but that didn't work so well.  So, this morning when I woke up, I came to find that the animal had returned last night!  It must have thought it found a gold mind with all that turkey!  I never did get to see our little friend, but it gave it self away.  There were these cute little foodprints all over the deck, must have been from the turkey grease!  We're pretty sure it was a raccoon...