New hammock

I told Jason that I would wait to blog about our new hammock until it was completely finished. Well, it isn't completely finished yet, but it is too pretty to not share with everyone. I am so proud of all his hard work, and it looks great! We were watching HGTV a little while ago and saw this really cool hammock stand. I thought that it would be fun for our backyard, and put Jason to work. He still has to hang the hammock, but that will have to wait until the backyard dries out a bit. As you can also see he built me a raised vegtable garden too. We are waiting for warmer weather to plant our vegtables because I don't want them to freeze. The garden isn't very big, but that is okay because I am not much of a gardner. I wanted to give myself this summer to grow (or kill) a small garden with just a few plants before I committed to a bigger one. The garden looks great too and I am really excited for the warmer weather to be out in our backyard. Now if we could just get the grass to grow faster...

Not a toy!

Ever heard something like that before, or said something like that to your kids? I have to keep reminding Lindsey that Megan is not a toy and we don't push her, hit her, throw her, whatever to her. We have to be nice! Even though Megan is still a baby, she is NOT a baby doll and does NOT belong in the dolly's crib. Okay, well maybe if daddy is around we can pretend that she is a doll. (Yes, we torture our children for our own entertainment, but she looks like she is having a good time.)

I love this one because you can see her smiling behind that fist!

Happy May Day

On May Day, we woke up to snow. That's right, snow. On May Day! I thought that May was supposed to be a month for nice weather, and here we are with snow! Yuck! Give me heat already! Anyways, I did happen to notice the one ray of sunshine in the whole sky. Literally. The whole sky was cloudy and then over the mountains was one ray of sunshine with a little blue sky behind it. It was pretty amazing.

Enjoying the sunshine!

A couple of weeks ago we bought the girls some new chairs. They just love them and on one particularly sunny day, we decided to go out and enjoy the sunshine! The sunshine didn't last too long, but we had fun while it lasted. We have had lots of cold days lately and the girls and I are ready for some more sunny ones. Despite having cold and windy days, Lindsey loves to be outside. I can barely keep that girl inside the house. She loves to play in the dog food and "wash" her hair in their water. So while she is outside, she gets pretty wet and ends up coming back into the house without her clothes! Good thing she is so cute!

New dresses

I bought the girls some new dresses for Easter, but since that was last month, I will just call these new dresses. Sorry about all the red-eye in these pictures. I don't know what happened. I must say that I love having little girls to dress up! I am not looking forward to the days when they can pick out their own clothes and dress themselves. For now, I am having a lot of fun with them!

Tree climber

Lindsey likes to try to keep up with her older cousins Joseph and Josh. They were climbing trees, so Lindsey had to climb trees. I couldn't believe that she was able to do it, but she was actually pretty good! Until she fell out. Lindsey loves to visit Grandma Sherry and Grandpa Lyle because she gets to play outside. Alot. The only bad thing about her playing outside is that she ends up getting a lot of cuts, lumps, and bumps. She eventually fell out of the tree and ended up with a rash on her stomach. Earlier that morning, she was bouncing on the air mattresses with the older kids and hit her head on the stone fireplace. She has a great bruise on her forehead from that one and another bruise on her arm. She was also running around most of the day with shoes but no socks, and the result from that was blisters on both heels. Poor kid. You would think that she was abused with all the bumps and bruises that she has, but she sure did have a great time this weekend.

Her wonderful bruised forehead. This was taken a couple hours after it happened. Today it looks much worse!

Dyeing Easter eggs

We also dyed Easter eggs at Megan's birthday party. Jason did a great job helping all the kids with this part. They made some pretty creative eggs.

Lindsey is showing off Jason's masterpiece.
And here is Lindsey's masterpiece. Pretty good for a first-timer.