Stinking Seagulls!!!!

Today we went to the river and fed the ducks and geese. Jeff's brother was here this week and we had a ton of bread that they got to feed the birds but we never made it to the river while they were here. Anyway the kids and I went today and it was quite an event. Lincoln got attacked by 2 geese(okay they just bit his little fingers and hurt his feelings). Carson kept saying that the ducks were all telling eachother super funny jokes because it sounded like they were laughing so hard. And I was innocently standing by a huge pine tree in the shade when a stinking seagull dive bombed me with his poo. That is right he dropped a load right on my back, I felt a thump and then some warmth and I turned to the kids and asked if there was poo on me, and as they were totally grossing out they admitted to the mess. They would not help me clean it off because they thought it was too yucky. Thank you very much, I have been pooped on by a bird!!

Summer Fun

This is what we do for the month of June. We play lots of T-Ball. It is pretty fun to watch, the skills of the kids are definitely still developing, but the comedy is never ending!! Carson is obviously ready to kill the ball, and he actually is quite a good hitter!!

I never thought I was the mother who would wish to destroy her kids with embarrassing pictures, but we are always after Carson to get his finger out of his nose, so when I got ready to snap this shot and this is what I saw I could not resist! Sorry Carson.

Maycee played softball this year instead of T-Ball. The girls pitch to each other and so it made hitting the ball quite a challenge. I think she got a piece of this one though!!

Due to the lack of hits in the game, she was always found in the outfield squatting of sitting on her tail. Her coach always was yelling to her,"Maycee, get up. This one is coming right to you" She never stood up!

I went to take the garbage out yesterday and I found this Caterpillar scooting across the ground. I told the kids to go get a branch from the tree for it to crawl on and they found caterpillar number 2. We put them in our little bug habitat and now they are hanging upside down making a cocoon or something, I will definitely update everyone to let ya know if we get a butterfly out of these puppies or not.

HOLY COW!!! Who knew we had a splash park in Rexburg?? SWEET. For all of you who are as sheltered as me, you must head over there as soon as possible. The kids had so much fun and it is free. This picture is a little blurry, but here is Maycee shooting down the water slide...

When Lincoln finally got brave enough to run through the water he thought it was awesome. He wanted to go sit on all the water shooting up. That can't feel too good in the bum crack?

And here is Carson, livin it up of course. He has a way of making anything he does adventurous. He is lots of fun to watch, ya never know what he is gonna do!

Poo in a box

I am sorry I do not have a picture for this story, and I hope none of you will think I am totally yucky, but this is a great story that made me laugh HARD and now every time I think of it I laugh again. A couple of days ago we went to see Jeff at work (out in the middle of nowhere, with no bathroom). Well anyway, Lincoln came over to me and he had to go potty, number 2, if ya know what I mean. I tried to explain to him that there was no bathroom and that he needed to try to hold it for a minute till we could go. He started to dance and said he needed to go now! I turned to Jeff and asked him what we could do in this situation and he looked around the job sight and focused in on an empty cultured stone box, it is about as tall as Lincoln and pretty wide and inside of that was an empty cement bag. He said"put him in the box and have him poop in the bag" So I informed Lincoln of the plan and picked him up to try to load him up into his new "bathroom". I guess he did not like the idea because he held on screaming, trying to fight his way back out of the box. I looked at Jeff, who had started digging a hole in a nearby pile of dirt, and he said "poop in this hole Lincoln". Lincoln said "no" and then poooped in his pants. Not good! Here is the best part...Jeff was less than impressed and he started to scold Lincoln by shouting, in all seriousness..."LINCOLN, IF I TELL YOU TO GET IN THE BOX AND POOP IN THE BAG, THEN GET IN THE BOX AND POOP IN THE BAG!!". I tried hard not to bust up, but for obvious reasons, my laughter came out and all I could say was" Honestly, did you just say that?"
It was so funny and now everyone in the house will randomly say"If I tell you to get in the box and poop in the bag, than get in the box and poop in the bag". We are very easily amused in this house!

Well isn't that nice.

Today was the "Daddy Daughter" date, and since I am now an activity day leader I was able to be there with this dazzling duo. We had a picnic theme, if you can tell from the picture though it was an inside picnic, when it is 45 degrees outside and 50 mph wind it makes picnicing not so nice outside. They all still had fun though, there was food, potato sack races, 3 legged races, dad's painting the girls fingernails, and some girls painting the dads fingernails, and painting t-shirts. Rock on. I remember the daddy dates back from when I was small, so I hope this memory will last as long for these 2.

Oh what a day!!! Lincoln turns 3 years old. WHAT?? He was so cute, he got to wake up and open his presents in his spider man jammies. We got him a few things that he liked, but what he really wanted was a motorcycle. From the time he could talk he has told us he wanted one. We told him that he would have to learn to ride a bike without training wheels first(knowing that by the time he could do that he would have forgotten about that promise)but when he took off on his bike a couple weeks ago he quickly reminded us that now he could have a motorcycle. Needless to say, he did not get one for his birthday. I had asked him if he had a good birthday and if he liked all of his presents, and he looked at me with puppy dog eyes and said"Mom you know all I wanted was a motorcycle." Well alrighty then, talk about breaking my heart!

Ya know you are getting old when a bird flies into a tree and it keeps your attention for 20 minutes. But honestly this bird looks like he belongs in the jungle. He was in the tree in my front yard in the freezing summer weather here, and he had such a good time. We loved him, but he flew away darnit. Seriously, does anyone know what it is?

And last of all my dad was here this week and it was very good to see him again, now I have got to hear the kids ask all day, "Where do you think Grandpa is right now?" They sure liked him.

Poop on Walmart!!

Sometimes there are the days you go to Walmart and when you are finished you have to ask "Why did I choose to go there?". Today was that day! I got up early in the morning and had a lot to do before kindergarten got out. So I ran my errands and had to do some major grocery shopping. I had Lincoln and Liz with me and they were actually really good. However I went to check out, my cart so full things were spilling over the sides, and what did I find?? There were 2 express lanes open(I was definately not a candidate for that) and 2 other checkstands were open, IN THE WHOLE STORE. To top it off, my guy(employee) at my checkstand happened to be about 80 years old, and he wanted to talk about each of my items, I wanted to tell him to zip it and speed up. He also double bagged every single bag, are we not trying to save the world, and he asked me "how I made out",WHAT?? No I do not want to make out with you old man. From the time I got into the line until I had paid, it was 24 minutes. Honestly! I am sorry to complain so much, but I know everyone feels the same way as me when it comes to checking out at the store. Right?

Lincoln Rides A Bike

Last week Lincoln decided he wanted to try riding his bike without training wheels. So Jeff took them off and he took off down the road, he never even crashed. He is still only 2 years old. It is really cute to see his little legs peddling so fast. He is pretty amazing.

Good Times!

I was looking through some photos and I found this one and I thought it was so cute and I knew it should be there on my blog. I had someone recently ask me to fill out a "survey" type thing on my blog, but I decided to switch it up a little. We made some books in young womans a while ago called the All about me books. So here is what I will do... Ya list 5 things you love and then 5 things you don't love. Anyone who thinks this would make a fun blog entry for them is welcome to do this too...
5 things I love
1. My family! That is why I had to have this cute picture on the page.
2. My house: Some people live in cardboard boxes, so even though I hate my diamond carpet, I love having a roof over my head.
3. Girls night out: Can you really ever laugh as hard as when you are with a bunch of giggling girls?
4. Public School: Don't get me wrong, I love spending time with my kids, but I also love that I can send them to school and they learn how to spell. I would be a terrible home schooler!
5. Brownies: Enough Said!

5 things I don't love
1. Road Rage: Is there anything more uncomfortable than being in a car with someone who is sure to get you killed.
2. War: I think we were all taught when we were 2 years old not to hit!
3. Contention: I like when we have love at home.
4. Stinky feet: I think we should all smell like beautiful flowers!
5. Liars: May the liar be thrust down to hell.

The boys in our house all went to the Father/Son campout this weekend. Jeff forgot to bring the camera, but Carson drew this picture and when I asked him about it he said it was Daddy, Carson and Lincoln all on their trip. (Please note the outstanding detail, they all have nipples and a bellybutton.) They had a great time, they had a fire, ate dinner, made breakfast, played games and when they left Jeff took them fishing. I asked Carson if he put the worm on the hook all by himself, and he said "No, those worms were like OUCH, OOOHH, OH, that hurts" all the while squirming with pain himself. And the good part about them being gone is that me and Maycee got to have a girls night out with my mom and sister etc. We all went to dinner and shopping. Good times!!!