belly laughs

almost 5 months!

A Happy Father's Day

The kids and I surprised Shane with a couple of his favorites - spaghetti and meatballs (which is really rigatoni and homemade meatballs - but we call it spaghetti) and Aunt Lizzy's molasses cookies. Andie helped make this sweet card. Her little letters are so precious!!

Aunt Julie's Quilt

The kids were playing "picnic" on a beautiful quilt that Aunt Julie made with such fun colors - so I set Sawyer in, too, for a quick photo! Shane's other Aunt, Aunt Sandi Sue, also quilts, so we were really spoiled with the most beautiful handmade baby blankets.
This has been a CRAZY week - Shane's sister, Stephanie and her little Emma were visiting on their way to moving to Washington state (she is so cute I want to gobble her up), Andie had her first swim lessons, AND I was helping clean some of Shane's renovated rental houses in the evenings (9pm-midnight!) so we can get them filled with some hopefully paying tenants!

Two wheeler

Shane decided to have Andie try to learn to ride her bike today. It was so nice out, and she had a good time. (No skinned knees!) She did really well - much better than she knows. She doesn't know all the times he wasn't holding on!!

If life gives you wind...

...fly a kite!
We finally found a good use for all of the wind out here! The kids had a fun time flying a kite today. We have another huge kite from Gammie to try, but thought we should test this one out first. Good thing - despite Shane and I reminding him to "hold tight!" Wyatt let go at one point, and well, if you look hard at the last photo you can see Shane in the tree getting the kite down. :)

Every time Papa comes to visit, Wyatt makes a fun game out of taking his ball cap off of his head. So, finally Papa brought a special surprise for the kids - their very OWN caps! They were excited. In fact, I heard Wyatt get up to go to the bathroom during the night last night, and when I went in to help him...he had the cap on (it looks really nice with footy pajamas) :) Thank you, Papa!!!

Happy Mother's Day

catch of the day

We went out to eat and to get ice cream with the kiddos one night and it was so nice we thought we would go to a park in Indianola since we haven't checked any out yet. The first one we saw had a ton of people there, so we followed signs to a different one only to see that it was all taken apart except for a merry go round! So, with ice cream melting we hurried home and decided to sit by our little pond, eat ice cream and throw a line in. Hey, Uncle Jim makes it look so easy... :)
Well we did catch a 10" bluegill that was hooked pretty well, (with Andie taking 20 min to reel it in...haha!) So, we decided to clean this one and add it to a mess of crappie that Jim had given us. Andie and Wyatt were so funny, they kept touching the fish and saying it was cute, but when it came time to clean it - you can see that Andie lost her excitement. Even still, Andie said,"This was a fun night!" - I guess better than the park any day.
Oh, and Wy Wy has had his "mop" trimmed since then!!

chasing butterflies

It is so nice out today - the perfect spring day to chase butterflies with the butterfly net from Lake Gammie and Papa! Andie and Wyatt ran until their sides hurt. Those butterflies are fast!

splish splash

Sawyer is 3 months! His "fussy time" in the evenings has now turned into a bright-eyed, excited time (which is much more preferable). It is really funny watching him look around and take in everything.

"Daddy...

...will you be my prince?"

Andie asked Shane that very question. Seriously. How can he NOT buy her a pony and let her eat candy all day? :)

little critters

It was like a catch and release day with the kids today. Let me explain... Shane helped the kids catch first, a toad, then a baby rabbit. I'm not sure who had more fun, Shane or the kids. But, they were really excited, especially when we presented the frog to gammie. :) I'm just sorry those pictures aren't on my camera! Then Andie ceremoniously took the toad to the pond to let it go, and likewise set the rabbit down to safely let it go.

little critters

Who's This?

It's Andie Kate - but I think Sawyer looks a bit like her at this age. Very fun to look back at these!

2 months old!

Mr. Smiley!

different view

Now that spring is here the deer have really come out. It is fun to look out and see things like this instead of the neighbors dog humping his food dish.

sick...

Shane, Andie and Wyatt were all sick with an influenza kind of virus - fever, chills - NO fun! :( Somehow, Sawyer and I managed to dodge it. I think someone had us in their prayers because I was really worried about Sawyer getting sick. (Andie's "pink-pink blankie" from Megan is still her fav)

The Gator...

They have been asking to get out the Gator, so Shane finally charged up the battery as we had a 60 degree day today - Yay!! Andie is a pretty good little driver and Wy-wy is content in the passenger seat, so it works out. (Thanks to Sepracor!) It is funny how they load up the back. Today it has their tricycle and little garden shovel...?

Silly Shots

Easter!

Spiffy church outfits thanks to the best Gammies ever! Aren't they cute?

Battling the Easter bunny by reading the Easter story

starting to smile!

Sawyer has been starting to smile a lot more the last week or so - fun! Andie especially likes it when he smiles for her... she took this photo, actually, but we cut off the cute little onesie from Aunt Chele and Uncle Clayton. It came on a teddy bear and has his name and birthday on it - very cute surprise!

warmest snowsuit from Aunt Steph and Uncle Steve (thanks!). This was pretty much Sawyer through his invigorating walk outside!

Ambitious! I attempted homemade noodles for chicken and noodles the other day. They turned out really good, although a little time consuming. But, it was fun for Andie to have a little time with mama while the brothers took a nap.