Froggy Friend

Chance found a friend while playing outside today. We had lots of rain yesterday that collected in the sand box..because the lid was left off! I went to scoop some of the water out and found this little guy hanging out in there. Chance was more than happy to remove the frog for me. He loves all critters. I'm just waiting for the day he tries to catch a snake!! He enjoyed playing with the frog until I made him let it go. I was afraid he was going to kill it because he was squeezing the poor thing so hard. Chance is a funny little guy!

The Fort is Finished!

After LOTS and LOTS of coloring the fort is complete. Cade signed his name to his favorite spot! We also signed the other kids names too!

Thanks Aunt Amanda

We LOVE the new Fort!

The boys love the new fort and spent lots of time coloring it today. Cade spent the most time working on it. They have not finished coloring it yet but I will take a picture when it is completely done. At one point Cade said he needed to take a break because his hands were sweaty! It takes some pretty intense coloring to make your hands sweat!! Thanks again!!

Quote of the day!

Chance came out of a fence where some horses had been and said, " Oooh Look, Big Dirty Meatballs!" I laughed so hard and then told him that they were NOT actually meatballs although they did kind of resemble BIG DIRTY MEATBALLS!

He then climbed on the fence were a horse named Noodle was tied up and said, "I'm up high so now Chicken Noodle can see me"!

One of God's Unique Plants-The Moon Flower

A couple of years ago my dad gave me a bag of moon flower seeds. I have loved these beautiful flowers. Last year I had to cut them back because they were taking over my bushes. I wasn't sure if they would grow back this year but I have one good size plant that grew. These flowers are really unique because they only bloom at night..and the flower dies the day after it blooms. It's really too bad the flower doesn't stay pretty longer for us to enjoy. I'm not sure if there are other types of moon flowers that do stay pretty longer. We've been keeping an eye on this last bud for the past few days. I told Cade yesterday that I was pretty sure it would bloom tonight. When we went out earlier today I could tell that tonight would be the night for it to open up. I've watched several of these flowers bloom over the past 2 years. It's really neat to stand outside as it's getting dark and watch the flower slowly open up. Tonight we all got to stand outside and watch as God worked his magic on this beautiful plant. The boys were thrilled to actually see the flower moving!!.

We didn't get outside early enough for me to take a picture of the petals completely folded up. This first picture was taken at 6:47 p.m. It had already started opening up!

Here is what it looked like at 6:53 p.m.

By 7:00 it had completely opened up. Isn't it a pretty flower!

The boys and their moon flower!

A busy morning!

Well it's another beautiful day here. I absolutely LOVE the weather we've had this week. We started off the morning with Cade playing soccer. The boys all played great! After the soccer game we went over to spend some time at the BBQ festival. We had a good time.Cooper ready to watch Cade play...he only lasted about 2 minutes in this seat!
Cade ready to play some defense

We stopped at the car show before heading over to the festival. There were lots of really neat cars but these were our favorites
The General Lee
The Batmobile (the boys favorite)
Herbie.

The boys enjoyed several activities. One was a pony ride.



Cooper had fun watching the animals while the boys rode the ponies


They had fun sliding down the party jumper. They came down very fast!!



The whole family enjoyed a train ride. The boys were exhausted by the time we were ready to leave.

Another great week

We've had another great week here. The weather has been beautiful all week so we've spent quite a bit of time outside. We have done several things with the letter M this week. The kids are enjoying our letter activities. It gives them something different to do for at least a few minutes during the day. This week we've played with magnets and money, used M&M,s for "math" activities, made M&M crafts, made marshmallow sculptures, made handprints in modeling clay, and glued macaroni on the letter M. The kids favorite thing this week was using M&M,s to do "work". The smaller kids didn't care anything about doing the "work" but they sure did love eating them when we were done!!our M&M craft


Cade sorting M&M,s
Making marshmallow sculptures
big brother helping out
handprints
macaroni craft

The boys got some pumpkins from Papa and Clara Ruth. Boy were they excited. We got 2 pumpkins so they each picked one. Cade picked the taller pumpkin (because he is taller!!) and Chance got the one that was slightly shorter but a little bigger around. They immediately started telling each other that "mine is the best one!" Must everything be a competition???? Cade told Chance that he thought his (Chance's) pumpkin would be better for making a pumpkin pie!! He wants a pumpkin pie so bad but doesn't want it made from his own pumpkin..funny! I've never even made a pumpkin pie and don't think I'm going to use these pumpkins to make one. I want to enjoy them sitting on the porch!
On a side note Cooper is walking EVERYWHERE now. He is getting so big way too fast!