Too Many New Things!

I just realized that there were too many new posts yesterday to see them all anymore.  You need to go to the May archive to see them all (don't worry - everything in May was done yesterday...  Yes, I'm a slacker!)  

Fun Misc Pictures

Tickle me Aunt Katie!

Jason and Shelly at the lake sitting on some rocks after having too much fun feeding the ducks. Shelly is trying to show us a 'flower' she found. I'm pretty sure it's a weed...

She's totally excited about the bubble bath. I promise! Maybe not so much about the camera...

I had to go on a hunt to find her one day during her nap. She was hiding...

and fast asleep!

Fun with Aunt Becca on the slide

Family Photos

With everyone in town except Nate, it was a perfect time to take pictures.

Whole Family

Whole family 2

Mark & Rachel, Jason & Shelly

Jenny & Robby, Grace and Lizzie

Danielle and William

the kids

Jason's Birthday

I know it's the one you've been waiting for...  I was trying to build up suspense :-)

Mom made Keithy cake and we fed Jason a small piece for his b-day pictures (no sense in wasting a big piece!) 

Before

He started out eating with a fork, but it was too clean so we took it away from him

Apparently even the plate tasted good...

That was fun mom and grammy, lets to that again!

Clean up time!

Thanks for the bath Aunt Becca!

Disneyland

While Robby and Jenny and family were in town they wanted to go to Disneyland. We took the kids in the morning, and then brought them back for naps and left them home in the evening. Of course we forgot to take too many pictures - but here are a few of the ones we did get
The hat in the front is Robby ducking behind Jenny's jacket... What a wimp!! Jenny is second, I'm the freaked out one behind her and Katie is last of our group. There were two (maybe three...) others on board with us.

Side Show

Doug was in a play at the high school called Side Show.  It's about two siamese twins who are in a freak show and then are able to make it big in Vaudville during the depression.  Doug played their boss while they were in the freak show.  He was supposed to be a mean drunk.  I think his beard helped pull that off :-)

Him and the 'reptile'

That's his 'scary face.'  Mostly it's just eyes opened wide and some makeup.  

It's a good thing he's farther away on stage! :-)

Doug and the proud parents.

Our GQ guy after shaving and before taking off all the stage makeup...

Congrats Doug!  The play was awesome!

Our Garden

So, I'm pretending like I know how to grow a garden this year.  Mark knows more about it than I do, but thankfully it hasn't really been all that hard - maybe because I've had Mark do all the planting, and I've just done the watching.  Here's a before picture of the garden and I'll put up an after picture when I get them off my camera.  The garden was planted in mid April, so it's been just over a month and we're starting to see some fruits and veggies forming.  :-)

Across the top are beans, peas and strawberries.  Across the bottom is lettuce (they got flooded out and replaced with radishes, but here it's lettuce), carrots, room for tomato plants (not yet planted), broccoli, pepper, and zucchini

Here's the corn

And here's a view from the other side.  You can see the hole we had to dig to fix the pipe that was flooding out the lettuce (ok, so Mark dug the hole... :-)

Jason and Shelly Dancing

We got a microphone that plays Wiggles songs in a box of toys that we got for free from Freecycle. I had avoided getting it out because it's a noise maker, and we all know how I feel about noise :-) Well, the kids love it and I have a hard time saying no when the only reason to say no is because it has potential to annoy me... So, I got it down a while ago and we can always tell when the kids are playing with it because it can be heard almost anywhere in the house! We caught Jason 'dancing' one morning, and when there are laughs to be had the camera isn't often far :-)

Big Slide from Swap Meet

Here's the big slide that Shelly got to go down.  Doug took her up (they're climbing up the side).  I have video to go with it, but this web site doesn't seem to enjoy working with me and video...  I'll keep trying.

We bought an umbrella to help with the sun on the kids.  Shelly apparently still has more to learn about walking with an umbrella... but it was a cute picture!

The Bike Trailer

I've been seeing people around and about with their kids lately and they often have a bike trailer with the youngest kids in it and they can bike places.  We decided to get one (used of course - Craigs List :-) and the kids LOVE it!  We had a hard time getting Shelly to stay out of it for the first day or two...

Jason Just Starting to Walk

This one speaks for itself. It was taken on April 12th (over a month ago... - I'm a slacker!). He's much better now.

Swap Meet Fun

While Becca and her friend Emily were down a few weeks ago, we went to the swap meet. It was fun, but we forgot to plan well for the kids and it was long.... We didn't bring any water, and it was super sunny and we only had one stroller for both kids and it was hot!! We distracted Shelly by letting her go down the 'big slide' [pictures and video to follow once my computer stops freaking out on me]

Doug slipped away at one point and came back with a surprise for the kids. We didn't get to see the surprise until after we got home, but the kids sure had fun playing!

We're getting excited about being able to go camping and using our new toys :-)