Our Friend Bambi

Okay, so it's not really Bambi, but we sure do love the buck who hangs out at our house on a regular basis! On this particular day he was right outside our front door. He wasn't scared of us or anything, I had the door open and snapping shot after shot...I think he secretly liked all the "paparazzi" attention. 

Once he decided he'd had enough, he casually walked to the neighbors yard. 

Until next time....

Next time came sooner as opposed to later (last night when we pulled in the driveway to be exact), and this time he wasn't alone, he brought friends! :-)

 See, he always poses for the camera

 One of his friends, a smaller Buck

 And a female friend, she was very timid

 There she is hiding in the bushes

This poor small Buck, he could not catch a break, he was trying to get out of the field, but the kids kept running back and forth, and he would get too scared of them and run back, finally though we did let him leave. 

Body Painting

I'm starting to break out of my "my kids need to stay clean all the time shell" and bought the kids some finger paints. I am so glad I did, they had so much fun running around and painting all over each other! I'm blessed to have an amazing husband who also has fun and gets down and dirty with our boys!

Hopefully I can continue to break loose and let the kids be kids. 

First Century Ride

Two weeks ago I did my very first century ride! I.T. W.A.S. H.A.R.D.

Let's just say I was glad when it was over.  It was the longest ride I have ever done and only 1/2 the distance of the STP. It made me a little nervous for the STP since I really struggled to finish it, but I did finish it so that was an accomplishment. It rained the majority of the time and I was so dirty and exhausted when I got home,  I was ready to just shower and get to bed. 

 A forced smile after I finished...I was exhausted

My poor white socks got ruined, and I had just cleaned my shoes...looks like another cleaning is due

I also stained the back of my shirt with black kicked-up mud. I couldn't get it clean!

Ready For Summer

My kids have never really been hat wearers, but I saw these the other day and just had to have them! Thankfully my kids love them too and were excited to wear them. As you can tell Andrew is all set for summer, we got hats, sunglasses, and fun whistles from Grandma Mortensen! Come on Washington bring on the sunshine cause we are ready!

Car Fun

Instead of spending the day at home on Thursday we decided to travel with Jon for work. While driving down to the job site, the kids kept us plenty entertained by hiding under and playing a game of bite and pull blankie. 

Turnips

Last Wednesday we spent the day as a family doing yard work. We mostly worked on weeding our garden and then we cleaned up some more fallen branches that went down during the ice storm this past winter. After weeding the garden I enjoyed pulling up some gigantic turnips!

 You know you've done a good job in your garden when the turnips are this big...not to mention they were delicious!!!

Hives

Two weeks ago after getting KB up from his nap I noticed LARGE red and bumpy patches all over his skin. I was a nervous wreck. I called the doctors and immediately scheduled an appointment. Within two hours though the spots were gone, so when the doctor's office called the next morning and told me his doctor was sick instead of scheduling with a different doctor I cancelled the appointment.

Within minutes of putting Kenneth into the bath the patches were back and worse! I promptly called the doctors and asked for the appointment back and off we went. Thankfully my nerves were put to ease when the doctor informed me that they were hives. The unfortunate part about having hives is that it is nearly impossible to figure out what they are from. The good news is that whatever they were from he hasn't come in contact with again and the hives are gone for now. I really hope it stays that way though, cause this mama was sure worried.

 covering his ankle

 Up his leg

 All the way up the other leg

 You can see how big it was on his upper thigh and on his right arm

On his lower leg