Week in review

Pretty busy week, actually.  Lots of appointments and a lot of rain made for an interesting week.  I will review it in pictures....  :)

Kids sitting at "their" tables at the yard sale....selling their own toys, books, and whatevers to earn money to take on vacation to Montana next month!

They made $120 on the first day!

Colton found an old bluetooth of ours and wears it EVERYWHERE, anticipating someones phone call :)

We were up EARLY EARLY on Monday morning this week.  It was a gorgeous day (the calm before the storm) and we hit the skate park early at 8a.m. before the serious older kids got there.  We had free reign of the park for 2 hours!!   The boys LOVE this!

Yard sale item.  Parker revereted back to toddler stage.  :)

Mr. Colton.  After shower.  Always SUPER excited, (kind of like after a dog gets a bath?  You know?)

Colton and Parker's huge hole they have been digging for over a week.  It is now deep enough that they can both fit inside and it is deeper than they are tall.  Apparently they are digging to China in hopes of finding robots.

They were spoiled by our coffee stand girl, Jenn, this morning on the way to the yard sale.

.........aaaaaaaand he's done.  G'night :)

Coltons hole, different view.

Rainy day = sorting marbles by color.  Great activity for a boy entering into K this fall!  He had a lot of help from Parker who has mastered the art of sorting.

Colton found this silly mask thing at the yard sale.

Colton manned the station without getting up for 4 hours.  I am really impressed by his patience!  Parker, well.....he came and went.  He did get the wiggly worm award at school, after all!!

[Memorial Weekend with cousins]

I always enjoy Memorial weekend...always a time that we spend together as a family and kind of the "kick off" to summer activities.


Unfortunately Aaron had to work over this holiday weekend, he had to meet a deadline for a landscape project and had to work all weekend to finish in time in order not to be fined $100/day thereafter...


Fortunately, we were surprised by our "Montana family" as they came to visit for the weekend. The kids had a blast!!

Here is a weekend in review "in pictures":





Colton and Aubrey enjoy a Mac 'n Cheese picnic lunch





The boys and I spent some time at the park Sunday night...playing on toys and "exploring" the historic fireplance there....

They loved to play out in the woods and be "fighter guys"

I found a can of hairspray paint and made them "OFFICIAL FOREST WARRIORS" 
Don't they look intimidating!?

MMM!!  Gramma made everyone root beer floats for a treat!!!


Uncle Josh made a TEEPEE!!  How cool!!  The kids had a pizza dinner in the teepee and pretended they were indian fighters!

Work Day at Gramma and Grampa Goat's!

We spend a Sunday each spring out at gramma and grampa goat's house. Let's get something straight here...SHE'S not a goat, she used to have goat's and that's how the boys associated her with them and the name has stuck ever since :)We enjoy doing this every year to help Aaron's gramma and grampa since they are getting older and are not able to really do this kind of work anymore. We always roast hot dogs and marshmallows in Gramma's fire pit which is a huge treat for all of us...it's a great time. This hopefully is also showing our kids what it means to help other people out of the good of their hearts and also instill a good work ethic in them.

Gramma Chee Chee's pets

Coco the cat.
Rudy the retriever.
Scooter the mutt.
They love us.
We love them.
Aaron goes a little overboard with them ;)