Grammy's card for Rowyn


Cooper's card for Rowyn, the boy loves his scissors.

Lumpy's card for Rowyn. She was sure to use each marker and cover every inch of the card.

Riley's card to Rowyn. You may have to click to see the detail.

Rowyn's Party

We celebrated Rowyn's 1st birthday today at our house.

She didn't know what to think of her cupcake, but after a taste of the frosting, she figured it out.

Red Neck Sandbox

Before we got the sandbox finished, our kids and the neighbors all had fun playing with the sand in the back of Clyde's truck. Red neck.

Jumpin' Jane's

Riley and her Daisy Scouts had their end of the year party at Jumpin' Jane's and siblings were invited, as well. Riley had a wonderful experience in Daisy Scouts and I hope she'll do it again next year. She had an awesome leader, Nicole, who was great with the girls; fun, kind, creative, outgoing, engaging.

Olivia, Riley, and Camdyn with her usual wonderful smile.

Weeeeee!!

Toot, toot, chugga, chugga, big pink car.
Look Mom, no hands!


Riley and Olivia again.
Notice Brecker the Wrecker sans her two front teeth!

Cooper's Big K Graduation

Wow, nice picture Lump.

Just gets better...


Getting into his part.

Move over 1st grade...here comes Cooper Flynn!

Cooper with his teacher Mrs. Young. Love her!

Portrait Innovations -- Take 1

I scheduled an appointment with Portrait Innovations for Rowyn to get her 1st birthday pictures taken. I bought her a special outfit, fixed her hair, and I was just putting my shoes on to head out the door.

Then I heard a scream.

I found her in the toy room, with blood dripping from her lip...all over her outfit.

No Camdyn wasn't guilty, this time anyway. Rowyn was pushing the Scooby Doo Mystery Machine and it slid out from her and she pushed her new front teeth through her bottom lip.

Unbelievable. So, pictures were rescheduled for Thursday.

The Flaming Fireballs

Cooper's first year of AYSO...and his first win.

Yeah, not quite how the goalie works, but whatever.

Soccer

Riley and Cooper started their first year of AYSO this week. Riley is yellow and black and they've decided on the team name, "Hawkeyes". Cooper is orange and black and his team name is "The Flaming Fireballs". My mom made them each a card for their soccer debut...and they were too cute not to share.

Riley's first game was last night (which I missed because I was working) and she scored the first goal of the season!

The Animals

That's Aunt Judy. She's in her 70's, but you'd never guess it to see her climb those fences! She's feeding a 10-day-old calf.

Jack the Jackass again. Not a nice boy.

One of the twin bulls


...and his brother.

The Farm Continued...

Meet Jack. Jack wasn't very welcoming, in fact, he charged at us, hee-hawing, nostrils flaring, and scared the Holy BeJesus out of the kids (and mom).

The farm had all kinds of old tractors, the kids each took turns "driving" them.

Got Milk?

A Day on the Farm

We went to Hanover today to visit Clyde's mom's grave and to stop and see the calves at his aunt Judy's farm.

The kids got to feed the calves their bottles. To say they were excited would be an understatement.

Madsen

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Sleepy Time Girl

Camdyn was in the kitchen eating a fruit snack. When we could no longer hear her, we decided we'd better check on her.

There, we found her on the stool.

fast asleep.

(her black nail is courtesy of her slamming it in the door in the other day)

Mother's Day

Camdyn and I were in the living room when she yelled, "Ducks!"...I looked out the window to see a mom leading her ducklings through our yard. I think Mrs. Duck needs to share her secret for keeping her babies in line. God knows mine are all over the place anytime we go out.

Hydrant Flushing

They flushed the hydrant today out in front of our house...two little girls were mesmerized.

Starbucks Via

My sister brought these with her when we were in St. Louis, and until then I had never tried them. I'm hooked! Easy peasy, lemon squeezy to make coffee on the go. Add the packet to 8 oz of hot water and you're good to go. I generally use them at work, where the doctors tend to make water with a hint of coffee.

Riley asked me last night if this means we won't be able to eat bacon on Sunday for breakfast. I reassured her that she won't be getting Swine Flu from eating pork and then broke it to her that the bacon we eat is turkey anyway.

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