Be jelly

Don't be jelly - but its been a glorious week of weather at the lake!  We had to break out the lemonade to toast our good fortune!

Our neighbor Larry provided the entertainment when he put his dock in.  Very exciting stuff.

Definitely quality entertainment.

You must take a moment and admire my pretty flowers.  I'm a sucker for Gerbera Daisies.  I get them every year.

I'm also a fan of these ones cuz I like purple.  What they are called, I have no idea!

And once my tomato plants getting rolling, I'm going to be having a lot of caprese salad with this delish basil.  Dylan keeps sticking his nose in it and breathing in deeply.  I taught him that. ; )

What I really need to be planting is spinach considering I can clean out a giant tub of it in a week or less.  My Vitamix rules so hard!  This Green Monster was especially good - Tera's Whey Dark Chocolate Protein Powder, 2 giant handfuls of spinach, 1 TB natural crunchy peanut butter, 1 frozen banana and almond milk.  It was like a chocolate peanut butter shake. And I'm not joking.  Dylan was like, "MOM!  You need to make it like this EVERY time."

Why he is screaming at me after that delicious smoothie, I have no idea!  He was mad though that I caught a picture of him screaming and then laughed to myself.

Playing on their swingset.  They've really been enjoying it a lot lately.

Avery is such a little lady though.  Everything must be clean and not "messy!"  She insists on getting her hands and feet wiped when they get dirty.  But yet, she refuses her shoes a lot???  And picks up wet sand???  I don't get it.

This makes me laugh because Milly looks like she's posing for the picture.  Ok, now tilt your head a little bit this way, Mux.  Perfect!

Well I'm off to watch what I think is the season finale of The Office.  What will we do without all our shows?!  Kidding.  Later!

 

Catch Up

Miss us?  I don't know whaaa happened but somehow a week has gone by since my last post!  Whoops!  And sorry to tell you this, but I'm sure this will be the norm now that the weather is FINALLY getting better.  Allow me to catch you up on the cute things the kiddies have been doing in the last week via pictures.  I know, its just SHOCKING that I took pictures.

Check it out - our first lunch outside this year!  Woohoo!  They were pretty excited about it too.

Followed by the first "lets get soaked by the hose" session.  I hate it when my clothes are wet, so I just don't get this.  But they love it.

Miss Pete Repeat (a derivative of Sneaky Pete, one of her other nicknames).  She saw Dylan do this, so of course she had to do it too.

And here she's copying me.  I often wear one of these to protect my hair from the sun.  She wears hers to be cute. : )

Hose is still running. : \

Love this picture of her wavy hair and tan skin.  I think its safe to say that we all have a pretty good base tan already. ; )

Washing the mud off his bike.  All the rain we've had really made a mess of it so he was pretty excited to give it a bath.

Avery's "milt" belly.

Here they are checking out minnows and getting sucked on by leeches.

Yep, leeches.  GROSSSSSSS!!!!!!  Does this stop them from continuing to go into the water there or walk on the dock (the suspected area of leech domain)?  NOPE.  Will I go in the water or on the dock?  NOPE.  I don't know what we're gonna do about the dock.  Its too old and crappy to raise up but the water does not seem to be going down.

Dylan and his cat.  He's getting so much better at drawing!  Preschool this year really helped I think.

Here's the first and last pic of this hummingbird feeder.  I got it all ready to hang, went in the house to turn on the oven and returned to find it shattered on the cement.  That will teach me to leave the string hanging down!  Avery grabbed the string and down it came.  Luckily it didn't land ON her.

I got a green chair to go with my pink one from last year!  I figure I'll get a new one each year until I have several colors.  They are so comfy and pretty to look at!   Just wish I could find the matching foot stools.  I KNOW they exist.  Or they used to anyway.

Back on the beach for more fun in the sand.  Note that Avery is willingly sporting pigtails!

Doesn't it look relaxing?!

Attempt at a brother/sister photo.

One of these times I'll get one.  These pics make me SO glad summer is nearly here.  Summer pics always look so much better.

And here I'm taking pics of Avery's hair.  I'm just so excited that she's finally somewhat willing to let me do her hair!  She even has little bangs now!

Well, thats it for now.  I'm in the midst of potty training and an unsupervised pantless child is dangerous for carpets, chairs, couches and siblings.  She just had on her first pair of underwear and peed in them 2 minutes later.  Its a learning experience, right?!  Later!