gardening with grammie

posted by owen and everett

fixing up the house first

watering my new plants

watering the rose bushes

a watering can just my size

notice our new shorts. they were made by grammie!!!!!
unfortunately, daddy put everett's on backwards after
a diaper change

grammie had great tips

memorial day at the children's museum

posted by owen and everett

grammie and gampa came up for a few days over memorial day weekend to help with a few projects around the house. we had a great time with them and even got to visit the children's museum on memorial day.

to serve and protect

ready for action

here comes the chief

grammie with the chief

the dog was bigger than everett

so much fun

brothers fishing

catch of the day

owen picking from the garden

gampa helping everett with the train

trains, trains everywhere

chef at work in the kitchen

preparing the pizza

cooking the pizza

it's ready!!!

bringing the sauce to a simmer

a floating ball

getting ready to launch the rocket

owen the veterinarian

mommy, your dog is gonna be okay based on these x-rays

cuddling

awana graduates!

posted by owen and everett

our first year in awana is now complete. we had lots of fun and memorized lots of bible verses. mommy and daddy were group leaders so it was a family activity for us. we're looking forward to doing it again next year.

owen's cubbie group (daddy was not in the pic since he was
taking everett to his group)

everett's puggles group

building with daddy

posted by owen

more from my building workshop.

a colorado mother's day

posted by owen and everett

being in colorado, we celebrated mother's day as only us coloradoans can...with snow!

watch everett, this is how you eat snow

the only thing better than tasting snow is tasting snow in may

everett quickly got the hang of it

i can't believe we are dressed in snow clothes...on mother's day!

even snow couldn't stop us from spending time outside with
the worlds greatest mommy!

so blessed

posted by mommy

what a wonderful mother's day this has been! it all started on Friday when the boys surprised me with a fun family outing to a local pottery painting studio! james even researched it and found one that uses all water-based non-toxic paints! we had a lot of fun although evs attention span was fairly short that day! o chose to paint his own little puppy, daddy and ev painted a mug for me that has both boys' handprints, and i painted a plate. can't wait to go pick them all up next weekend!

o got to work right away

it was no surprise that he wanted to paint a doggie,
and he chose orange!

ev had fun the first few minutes

but he quickly had enough of being made to stay in one place,
and not do everything by himself!

all three of these boys have truly stolen my heart!

i am truly blessed to have been given the privilege to be "mommy" to two amazing little boys and am so glad to be given the chance to celebrate that together!

handyman in training

posted by owen

daddy and i have been to a couple kids building workshops recently at home depot and lowes. it's a lot of fun! there's lots of other boys and girls with their mommies and daddies and we all build special projects. last week i built a stand to hold a flower pot, and this week i built a flower delivery truck!

i even got a special apron, goggles, and a button/patch for each one! i can't wait to go back next month!