Family fun

Wed after church Dad decided to surprise us with ice cream.......and Baskin Robbins to boot! My favorite! I think the kids all loved it :)

Micah just thought he was it! Sitting in a big chair eating his ice cream all by himself :)
Caleb wanted to sit up at the big chair with Ethan :)
Aren't they just a pair! LOL

Brianna got the biggest cone of all with her whooping jr waffle cone ;) This was nice, really nice. It so reminded me of some of the fun little things of my childhood.

A day at the zoo

So we had this GREAT weather the last couple of days. I just couldn't resist taking advantage of it espeically given last week it was in the triple digits! So on Tue afternoon we headed out to the zoo :) Me and the four monkeys ;)







The kids at the entrace of the zoo.......can you tell who the adventurer is here ?!? :)
Ethan seeing how he measures up to the orangatanges.
Of course everyone else had to follow suit! LOL

See, I told ya it was me and the four monkeys ;)
The kids just can't pass up this photo op, they beg me EVERY time to take their pics here.
This is at the entrance of the rainforest building.

This little fella got so close to us, he even ran right accross the rail in front of us and scared the fire out of Ethan and Brianna. But even funnier than that (wish I could have gotten it on video) was when the accuchi....a rodent type animal.....scurried accross the floor in front of Brianna and just about made her jump out of her skin! We ALL got a huge laugh! LOL
And of course no trip to the zoo is complete without a ride on the train. We usually walk to the back and ride it back to the front, passing the larger animals that have alot more space in between them such as giraffes, elephants, etc. Unfortunately this time they had turned it around so we got a nice tour behind all the buildings :( The kids were bummed. They still managed to smile as we were able to get the back seat.........a rare occurance ;)

We have progress!!

Well, we started this project just over a year ago. David got all the footing work and the floor built last year and then we just kinda came to a hault.......well, we've finally been able to get started again :) We worked hard as a family and got 3 of the walls framed!! We are hoping to finish the framing and start putting up decking material within the next week!! So say some prayers and keep watching ;)
Here are the kids with 2 walls up and laying out the materials for the third wall.

David's measuring and marking for the third wall.

Third wall is up!!! See where the window will be :) Man that was much harder than it looked.

Getting ready to head in for the night at 10pm!!

Micah's getting tubes

We finally made it in to the ENT after waiting 3 months for our appt..........to find out that indeed he needs tubes! Wow, what a surprise ;) LOL So we're all set up for Aug 22 to get them in.
He sat so big in the chair while the dr looked in his ears, it was so cute :)

Dentist firsts :)

The kids had their 6mo check up at the dentist and it was Micah's first teeth cleaning :)
Ethan having had the most dental work done in the past was used to all this and went first ;)
Next was Brianna as Caleb got scared after they had tried to do the x-rays and they hurt his mouth :( He was a little hesitant about anything that came after that!
Micah did great! The only thing he wasn't to sure about was them laying the chair back, I think he felt like he was going to tip out of the chair! LOL But he sat there and let them clean his teeth like a trooper :)
They even let him hold the paste stuff they use for cleaning.

And he loved the suction straw :)

Upon the dentist checking her teeth out Brianna had a small cavity so they went ahead and filled it. She was so relaxed she didn't even know what side of her mouth it was on! LOL

a nannie and a kid :)

Well, we sold "Chloe" today. When we bought Chloe and Eddy we paid $25 for the pair.......today we sold Chloe for $44 :) Not bad huh?! Now goats are herd animals so they do best when they have company, so of course we bought a nannie (female) to keep Eddy company ;) Long story short David had to make a purchase without me there so now I'm waiting for him to get home so I can see her. He said she was white, to which I was sad cause I'm not a fan of the plane white goats, they aren't near as pretty in my opinion. Then he went on to correct himself reminding me that just the other day he'd called Franny (the dog) white, when she's clearly beige or light tan by my standard ;) LOL, so we'll see what color the new nannie really is! I'll get a pic on here soon.

gardening, a learning curve ;)

Well, remember we decided to grow a garden this year........well, there will definately be a learning curve to this! LOL some of the plants are doing well, other look a little sad. Some of them we weren't even sure WHAT they were when they first started sprouting up.....till we found our planting chart ;)
These are the beans, they look pretty healthy, but no pods yet?!? The smaller ones were planted a month or two later than the larger ones ;)
These are the cantalope which were also planted later than the rest of the garden.
This is one of 2 lonely carrots that started to grow.
Here's our corn that sprouted up quickly but then just kinda stoped :(
This is one type of lettuce....don't remember which kind :)

And here is another.
This is our okra whic apparently is ready to be harvested :)
This is our one lonely pumpkin, it is a smaller variety.
This is one of our 2 poor tomatoe plants. We've only harvested 3 tomatoes and 1 we waited to long for, another looked like a worm or some bugs got it, and the last *might* be usable :) They are a smaller variety and I think next year we'll go with a bigger one. Anyway, I've finally found a great gardening message board that I can bombard with my gardening questions so hopefully my next one will be more successful :)