A Frog Hunt

Here is a video of what a typical evening looks like for Baby A. 

We eat dinner and head outside to play for a while. 

The first thing she does is hunt for frogs! 

Fishing

One Sunday after church we all headed to a nearby pond to do some fishing. 

You guys really have no idea how much Scooter loves fishing. 

Not a day goes by that he isn't talking about it. And he is good at it too. 

I snapped this shot quickly and knew I would have fun editing it. 

I managed to capture the sweet simple beauty of this precious little girl. 

And wouldn't you know, she loves to fish too. 

We didn't catch any big fish but it was still fun to catch something. 

Baby A even liked holding them and then throwing them back in the water. 

It's pretty obvious by these pictures that I was there to take pics and not fish. 

Rascal isn't in to fishing so he stayed back with Granny. 

After awhile Baby A decided to go explore with her Paw. 

They found a great place to build a fort. 

Frog Hunter

Baby A might love to have her nails painted and make up put on but this girl LOVES her frogs!! 

She knows where to find them (she learned from her brothers), puts them in a bucket and carries them around talking to them. This one (above pic) she tried to tickle and then hugged (GASP!!) him. I wanted to scrub her with hand sanitizer..... so gross! 

One day she peddled her trike up to me and said I got a surprise for you mom. She opened the front compartment and this is what I saw!!!! Yes I screamed! This bullfrog was injured but still very much alive and she was just riding him all over the place talking to him. 

And if these pictures aren't enough proof for you, here is a video and you might laugh at my reaction too! 

Random Catch Up

Well as you can see blogging has already taken a back seat for me and I am quite sure it will remain that way because summer break is around the corner and I am soaking up the time with my kids during this gorgeous weather. So you may see me here daily or you may see me here one day with several posts trying to play catch up.

Here is a little bit of what we have been up to lately:

Sweet Scooter graduates from 5th grade this year. Next year he will be in middle school and I am trying to figure out where on earth time went?? It feels like he was just starting kindergarten. 

Baby A came into my room one day and sighed very dramatically. Then she said " Mom! There are no girl clothes only boy dress up clothes! All I have are tutus!" 

Such a drama queen :) 

We remedied this problem and she loves her princess dress now

I love this picture of Lucy. She looks like a fluffy floor rug. She was one tired puppy! 

We had the stomach bug hit our house a few weeks ago and it was a LONG week for me. Friday came and everyone was well so Baby A and I took the day and turned it into a fun girls day. We did hair, make-up, nails, and we got Starbucks. It was much needed for both of us. 

Baby A likes to dress her self a lot of the times. I don't fight that battle when we are staying at home. 

Just look at this wild outfit. 

Baby A and Tim had a daddy daughter date and went to get a drink at Dairy Queen. Funny fact: Baby A calls root beer "Root Bayer" with her southern accent. I love it! 

She may get root beer with daddy but when she's with mommy we get Starbucks. She loves the kids vanilla steamer but calls it "white mocha steamer" because I get a white chocolate mocha. 

After Tim's surgery he couldn't blow his nose, sneeze, lift heavy things or cut the grass for 6 weeks. That meant that I had to learn to mow the grass. I must admit it was fun and I only got stuck in a rut or ditch 3 times. lol He had a great doctor visit last week and is now able to return to all normal activities. 

I have been dressing up our front porch and I love these beautiful blooms! 

The boy shave been hunting mud bugs in the ditch. Grosses me out!!! 

This dog cracks me up the way she just makes herself at home. Just look at the way she chose to lay/sit

This girl is sassy but not in a bratty way, in fact it's really kinda cute. 

That smile just says it all!!!! I love that picture.

Easter Sunday when we got home that night Lucy passed out and I think this totally captured how we all felt! It was a busy weekend but oh so much fun. I will post pictures in a separate post. 

Took some time for myself and got my hair cut. I am in the process of growing it back long but we added some fun layers. I am loving the low maintenance. 

Me: Baby A, Are you being nice to Lucy? 

A: Yes, I am!........well she was growling a little bit...

Her smile explains it all!

We got started on our garden last week. Baby A and I love all things gardening. 

She loved helping me get all the veggies at the nursery. 

Our goods from our first visit...... we ended up going back to get more veggies. 

I bought me a big sun hat because I am so fearful of skin cancer. 

Plus my part in my hair always gets burned. 

Our garden last year was maybe 6 feet by 5 feet 

We have had it this size for 2 years and it really was a great start for us beginner gardeners. This year we felt we were ready to expand our garden so expand it we did! 

Our garden this year is 25 feet by 25 feet and we have 15 things planted. We are hoping we have a great harvest this year and I plan to conquer canning this year too. 

Here's the layout of our garden this year: 

As always I am sure that we will have things we learn from this year. Each year we learn something else and I know this year will be no different. I will be updating on it some this summer and letting you guys know how it does. 

Ok that's it for now. More to come later. 

Spring Break Part 2

On Wednesday of the kids spring break we woke up to REALLY cool temps but we bundled up once again and headed to the Botanic Gardens.

Baby A asked for Elsa braids (from the movie Frozen) and had her purse packed full and her baby ready to go. 

We got there shortly after they opened and that coupled with the cold temps made it where we had the whole place to ourselves. 

Our Botanic Garden has a really cool kids area that we basically spend all our time at. We bought a membership this time so we plan to visit it quite often this summer. 

The Music House 

Can you spot Rascal in the loft window?? 

The Fairy Tale House 

Oh sweet Rascal, He still takes such good care of his sister. 

And he is such a goof ball! 

The Bird Tree House 

The Chicken Coup 

The Worm Hill with tunnels 

Dress up the scarecrow

Here is a video of them playing the percussion:

Thursday I thought it was going to rain but it turned out to be gorgeous so we made last minute plans to picnic at the park with friends and ended up staying there for a good 3 hours or more.

Friday we stayed home and the kids got ready to head to Granny's and spend the night so I could have date night with Tim for my birthday. It was the perfect way to end a perfect week. 

Now we count down the weeks until summer break when we can do more of this kind of stuff! 

Less than six weeks to go!