All that work

After all that work yesterday to clean out the garage (ignore the piece of furniture in the middle that will stay there until my hubby who started it 4 years ago will finish it, will stay right where it is) I came out the door to find.......

This....

Which led me to a huge mess in our garage where our door(which the lock is apparently broken) had at least 100x's this scattered all over it. Due to our neighbors moving and filling the dumpster in one day, I had to put our trash LOCKED in our garage until it was emptied. I guess doors with broken locks don't work well. (No picture of the garage because of the yuk factor and my OCD had to pick it up right then. This actual piece of trash was really the neighbors that the dog brought to our house. But ended with someone locked out of my garage and this sad face of ...........

YEP I did it :(

Spring cleaning (I think)

Today started out a little like this(which took all day)
because once you do this.......

They do this..

why is it that when you are trying to clean, that's when the play with it.
Our poor car hasn't seen the garage in weeks! All this was smack dab in the middle.
It is now a very happy car(van)

And so it begins

Today she finally learned that she can reach the pedals!

She will be passin' her brother in no time!

Let the races begin!

Little ball boy

Today our boy was asked to be the ball boy for the local high school girls soccer team along with his cousin.

All in all a lot of excitement for the girls, but I think he got to throw the ball back in maybe 5 times in 2 hours.

But he was the best ball boy ever

Putt-Putt

Her first real try at putt-putt
Who doesn't get frustrated with golf?

And if you have ever golfed or played putt-putt, the logical thing to do is to just pick it up and put it in the hole

It works

Finding your ball in the rough is just as exciting

Ended in Victory

It has been the longest baseball season ever! But today was finally the last game.

Of course I have to take pictures to documents this moment of a great but hot season

Can't forget the banana

This year we really saw an improvement in his playing

To top it all off, they got 2nd for the whole year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To celebrate.... Just a little water for the best coach

He had no hard feelings and then took the boys to the ice cream shop for an ice cream victory

And it was good

Berry Picking

An old tradition in our family for as long as I can remember.... black raspberry picking. Yes true, as you saw on yesterdays blog, they do grow free on our farm. But not the same. Hard to pick and small. And now we have a berry farm only 10min away! So Every year we get together to pick berries, we use to drive about an hour away to do this.

Love this dog, only new us for 5sec.

Boy, OH Boy, was it hot! around 90 at 9:30am, with about 85% humidity!

First berry picking lesson

Then the eating started.......

And she ate........

And ate.......

And ate.......(out of the box if you notice) pick 4 eat 3)

And ate.......

Finally that belly was full. I thought grandmas box would never start filling up.
Not that you need to know, but with a very large burp on the way home......it all came back up.
Still cleaning the car seat.

Farm Fun

Every year on the farm when the first cut of hay has been baled, we take the kids out and stand them next to them to take pictures, kind of the redneck way of measuring your children I guess.(Instead of using the wall). But fun none the less.

Even our crazy dogs have fun, We call this one the happy one. (not too bright).
But very loving and always wet.

And a yummy surprise on the way back to the house! Black Raspberries! mmmmmmm, my favorite

Love the farm life :)

10yrs

Saturday June 17, 2010 marked our 10 yr anniversary. In the beginning we heard a lot of "it will never work". Apparently two people who are the youngest in their families is a sign they won't get a long? Not here! It has been the fastest 10 yrs of my life(I blame 8yrs of that on children).

To celebrate we took a boat ride on the river that also served dinner........

Found this great little gazebo to make a quick snapshot to remember it by.....

Then to the conservatory to see the butterfly exhibit (OK this one was for me, he could care less about butterflies, but he loves me, so he did).....

Then we had dinner on the way home and went back to pick up the kids.
Thanks Grandma for 11hrs of peace!
Had a great relaxing time.

The best job

Today I will say that photography would have to be the best job in the world. Where else could you get to look at this all day, Listen to heavy metal music(LOUDLY) and its ok to stare.......

Here are just a few fun pics from today
Really had a great time

Mother hood

Any mother will understand when I say, this is not chocolate