Laughing

 
I can't remember what the girls said they were laughing about but as you can see by this picture, they were enjoying themselves.

K-9

 
We got to see K-9 trials this weekend. My cousin has been a K-9 policeman for 4 years but we have never been able to see this so we were really excited to watch. It happened all day so we were only able to catch a glimpse of the competition. We got to see his dog search for a person in a box (to catch his scent). He did a great job! The kids loved watching it and him.

Ladybug

 
I guess when things are macro, everything is, including the dust. This was inside the "White Shadow."

Dendelion

Dendelion a photo by S.Car on Flickr.

Only a Boy Named Carter

 
There's an old Sunday school song called "Only a Boy Named David." It's a catchy little song about one of David's most famous acts, when he slew the giant. Sometimes I think Carter could rival him in the rock-throwing skill. He doesn't levitate the rock "round and round" in a sling above his head but he does like to throw them. Sometime I should just get a chair, plant myself with a good book and test the longevity of this sport. I think he could go for quite a while.

Flower Power

 

Spring

 
It is absolutely the most beautiful time of the year to live around here. The blossoms are out everywhere. There are beautiful clouds in the sky. The heat is not insufferable at this point. We love spring!

I didn't get a lot of time with Kim when she visited. We tried to make the most of it. I was able to stay in Newport with her one evening. It was nice to hang out and not have anything pulling at us, her work nor my children. She finally got to meet my children and see my home. We kept joking about how we actually had a gas station (what with living in Podunk). Thanks sooo much to my loving and generous husband for allowing such things to take place. I came home to a very clean and freshly painted room.

Friday Night Lights

This was what it was like the night before I left through the snow. It was worth all the weather to get to Newport. Though it was unusually cold there too, it was a beautiful hotel and quality time with my friend.

Heard it through the grapevine

This is what it looked like on Saturday morning. It was absolutely beautiful.

Bunny

 
We saw this guy (or gal) on our walk yesterday. Actually, we saw two of them. They were hanging around together.

Kenny-Cat

 
Kenny-Cat had a fun weekend. She got to spend the night at her friend's house. From there she and her friend went to a birthday party where they got to bounce around. Then that evening she and I went to buy her reward for not sucking her fingers for 2 weeks now. We had a lot of fun together on the ride to and from the store. She introduced me to a game called "Piggle." Piggle involves rhyming words together.

This picture was taken on our family "hike" today at a preserve. Our family had lots of fun walking around. We got to see a couple jack rabbits, livestock and lots of cow "plops" as Avery calls it.

Valentine's Lunch

 
The C-dawg and I brought lunch for the girls for Valentine's Day. Friday we had lunch with Avery. It's been a full week of being at school. We were also able to do lunch duty one day too. Carter liked playing soccer with a 1st grader and Avery had fun playing on the playground.

More projects

 
 
Here are some more projects Blake had handed in. They are so creative!

Heli

 
 
This is Blake's 3rd year of this fun class assignment. The students are suppose to write in the voice of their parents excusing them from handing in their homework on time. He grades their writing, the medium on which it's written and the delivery, among other things. It's always a fun time in our house for this assignment. Our kids are on the lookout all day for the shenanigans of Blake's students. Some of the things delivered this year, and in no particular order, were a tire, toilet seat, calf milk bottle, an animal of the feline persuasion (which we returned, much to the children's chagrin), and what you see pictured here, a backpack delivered by helicopter.

Sunset

 This is when nothing can really capture the beauty that God created.

Slide

 
The weather has been absolutely beautiful here. We went to the park the other day to kick off the weekend.

heliotrope

 
This was seen on our hike the other day. It kind of looks like a cotton ball.

Fun Guy vs. fungi

 
The C-dawg and I went on a hiking trip Friday. We were so excited to have a day with just the two of us. Often after we drop the kiddos and daddy off at school he says something like, "It's just you and me mommy." We had to pack for our "big" hike. We don't like to go hungry. We got some cappuccino made, packed a granola bar and some graham crackers and we were on our way. There's an oak preserve that our family likes to frequent while the weather is nice. Along the trails are numbers which probably indicate a point of interest but we've never figured out what they are suggesting we pause for. The kids just like to find the numbers along the path. Carter was rather impatient of all my picture taking but I managed to get a few. He humors me for awhile and then he just wants to run around. We had a great morning together.

Snowflake

 
A couple weeks ago we had a Snowflake breakfast at our church. We had a yummy breakfast and a few crafts to do. One of the crafts involved forming grated soap with some water into a "snowball." Inside the children got to put a special little toy inside so after many uses of the soap ball they will discover their toy.