Friday, April 24, 2009
Shorts!
Thursday was a beautiful day. We headed out to Ada Hayden again to let Gabe ride his bike around the lake. It was so fun to see the boys cute little legs again after being under cover all winter.
Monday, April 20, 2009
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Veishea
The weather held out for the most part on Saturday so we were able to go to the Veishea parade and enjoy some food while we were out. Pete and Andrea, Alan and Clark all came to our house and we walked over to campus and found a good spot to watch the parade.
All the boys did a good job waiting for the parade to start.
Once it started Ty turned into our little candy scrounge, if there was candy anywhere in the near vicinity he would find it and try to eat it. 
Gabe liked the candy as well but he paid more attention to the things actually in the parade. He loved the bands, the firetrucks and the Wall-E float especially.
We had to make sure Ty didn't run out in the street but for the most part they did great at the parade.
It started raining about half way through, not too heavy of rain but enough to make the ground wet and everything dirty. It stopped shortly after it started and then didn't rain on us again(much to Carl's displeasure as he was counting on the rain to help out with reseeding and fertilizing he did on our lawn on Saturday morning:) After the parade we walked over to the Block and Bridle club and got our brat meals(the brats are made by the meat department at ISU and are great!) We ate them in front of Mckay Hall where the boys found new entertainment playing in and around the bike racks.
We also got to enjoy Fudge, Cherry Pies and Homemade ice cream, along with the candy from the parade I think we were all on sugar overload! We visited the big sprayers in front of Davidson Hall where the boys liked to climb.
After we visited the petting zoo area we walked back to our house, Ty almost made it back awake but sleep caught up with him about a block from our house.
It was a fun day and we were all ready for bed Saturday night. Gabe and Ty will have candy to munch on for the next few months:)
All the boys did a good job waiting for the parade to start.
Once it started Ty turned into our little candy scrounge, if there was candy anywhere in the near vicinity he would find it and try to eat it. 
Gabe liked the candy as well but he paid more attention to the things actually in the parade. He loved the bands, the firetrucks and the Wall-E float especially.
We had to make sure Ty didn't run out in the street but for the most part they did great at the parade.
It started raining about half way through, not too heavy of rain but enough to make the ground wet and everything dirty. It stopped shortly after it started and then didn't rain on us again(much to Carl's displeasure as he was counting on the rain to help out with reseeding and fertilizing he did on our lawn on Saturday morning:) After the parade we walked over to the Block and Bridle club and got our brat meals(the brats are made by the meat department at ISU and are great!) We ate them in front of Mckay Hall where the boys found new entertainment playing in and around the bike racks.
We also got to enjoy Fudge, Cherry Pies and Homemade ice cream, along with the candy from the parade I think we were all on sugar overload! We visited the big sprayers in front of Davidson Hall where the boys liked to climb.
After we visited the petting zoo area we walked back to our house, Ty almost made it back awake but sleep caught up with him about a block from our house.
It was a fun day and we were all ready for bed Saturday night. Gabe and Ty will have candy to munch on for the next few months:)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Bubbles
We have been enjoying the beautiful weather this past week. We have been playing in the new tree house everyday and have even had a few friends over to try it out! Today is probably the nicest we have had so far so fresh off new haircuts we broke out the bubbles. Gabe finally got the hang of it and could actually get bubbles to come out this year!
Ty on the other head just put his bubble wand in his mouth, I can't imagine it tastes very good but he didn't seem to mind.
Both boys has so much fun watching and chasing the bubbles and trying to blow their own. We played in our front yard and enjoyed the scent of our Star Magnolia tree that is in bloom right now.
We are hoping that the weather holds out for Veishea tomorrow so we can go to the parade and eat some brats!
Ty on the other head just put his bubble wand in his mouth, I can't imagine it tastes very good but he didn't seem to mind.
Both boys has so much fun watching and chasing the bubbles and trying to blow their own. We played in our front yard and enjoyed the scent of our Star Magnolia tree that is in bloom right now.
We are hoping that the weather holds out for Veishea tomorrow so we can go to the parade and eat some brats!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Easter, The Tree House, and Ladybug Friends
We had a busy weekend! On Friday we went to Krugers to dye Easter eggs, the boys did a great job this year and we had no huge messes to clean up, only a few egg casualties but I suppose that is to be expected.
Ty and Bree wanted in on the fun as well even though I think Ty would have been just as happy to dip Lightning McQueen in the dye instead of the Easter egg but he tried.
Friday also began the assembly of the untree house as Carl calls it(in amongst the trees but not actually in a tree) Friday night my parents came over and helped Carl set the posts. This was some of the progress from Friday. 
Saturday I had to work from 7-3 so I missed most of the progress until I got home and then I managed to get a few shots.
Saturday night after a long day working we went to church, I got the boys cute little sweaters to wear and tried to get their picture with their easter eggs with their name on it. Yeah you see how well those turned out.
Sunday we woke up and ate Grandma Nancy's hot cross buns for breakfast, look Grandma even Ty is eating it! 
Then we did Easter baskets
and I made lunch for us and my mom and dad, who came over to help out with the tree house again. Somehow in all the excitment of the weekend we still managed to do an Easter egg hunt, Gabe was very excited with the jelly bean eggs,
Ty didn't care too much but did manage to sneak a few into his bucket away from his brother.
The tree house made tremendous progress Sunday afternoon and is now ALMOST completed,
it still needs a few little things here and there, most importantly slats put on the sides so Gabe doesn't fall out when he climbs up in the loft area
but it is usuable and has been used frequently already.
We spent lots of time outside this past weekend and got to explore our flowers blooming. Gabe liked this daffodil a lot,
he also really enjoys lady bugs, for some reason we have about a billion of them in the house and he is always finding one and letting it crawl all over his hand and talking about how cute it is. Here is one of his lady bug friends. 
Even though this Easter was busy with building, working and playing we were glad to take time and praise God for sending his one and only son to die for us, but more importantly defeat death for us and raise us up to new life in him! Thank you Jesus..all praise the one who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead!
Ty and Bree wanted in on the fun as well even though I think Ty would have been just as happy to dip Lightning McQueen in the dye instead of the Easter egg but he tried.
Friday also began the assembly of the untree house as Carl calls it(in amongst the trees but not actually in a tree) Friday night my parents came over and helped Carl set the posts. This was some of the progress from Friday. 
Saturday I had to work from 7-3 so I missed most of the progress until I got home and then I managed to get a few shots.
Saturday night after a long day working we went to church, I got the boys cute little sweaters to wear and tried to get their picture with their easter eggs with their name on it. Yeah you see how well those turned out.
Sunday we woke up and ate Grandma Nancy's hot cross buns for breakfast, look Grandma even Ty is eating it! 
Then we did Easter baskets
and I made lunch for us and my mom and dad, who came over to help out with the tree house again. Somehow in all the excitment of the weekend we still managed to do an Easter egg hunt, Gabe was very excited with the jelly bean eggs,
Ty didn't care too much but did manage to sneak a few into his bucket away from his brother.
The tree house made tremendous progress Sunday afternoon and is now ALMOST completed,
it still needs a few little things here and there, most importantly slats put on the sides so Gabe doesn't fall out when he climbs up in the loft area
but it is usuable and has been used frequently already.
We spent lots of time outside this past weekend and got to explore our flowers blooming. Gabe liked this daffodil a lot,
he also really enjoys lady bugs, for some reason we have about a billion of them in the house and he is always finding one and letting it crawl all over his hand and talking about how cute it is. Here is one of his lady bug friends. 
Even though this Easter was busy with building, working and playing we were glad to take time and praise God for sending his one and only son to die for us, but more importantly defeat death for us and raise us up to new life in him! Thank you Jesus..all praise the one who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The Countdown and Hosanna!
The countdown has begun to building the tree house. Gabe wakes up everyday and asks how many more days until we get to start. Today he was very excited to learn that it is only 2. All the materials are in the garage.
and the area has been marked for any underground utilities and everyone is just waiting for the fun to begin!
This is a rough picture of what it will look like when it's done.
On another note we were outside playing in the yard and Gabe found a leaf blown off from one of the trees. He started waving it up and down and saying Hosanna Hosanna blessed be the name of the Lord! I caught him action when we came inside:) In the meantime Ty ate this lovely piece of chalk:(actually he ate an orange one I saved this purple one)
and the area has been marked for any underground utilities and everyone is just waiting for the fun to begin!
This is a rough picture of what it will look like when it's done.
On another note we were outside playing in the yard and Gabe found a leaf blown off from one of the trees. He started waving it up and down and saying Hosanna Hosanna blessed be the name of the Lord! I caught him action when we came inside:) In the meantime Ty ate this lovely piece of chalk:(actually he ate an orange one I saved this purple one)
Thursday, April 2, 2009
First Tractor Ride of the Year
It was finally relatively nice the other day so we decided it was time to bring the tractor up from its winter home in the basement to its new Spring/Summer/Fall home in the back porch. Last summer Ty did not care about the tractor but this year is going to prove to be different I think. He was just as interested in riding the tractor as Gabe. I thought I found a good solution in putting Ty in the wagon that hooks onto the back of the tractor(max load for the wagon is 22 lbs Ty is approx. 22 lbs. 8 oz. so it worked out well)
Ty thought it was okay for awhile but then realized he was not in control and it no longer worked so well. Gabe did do a good job taking turns and let Ty drive every once in awhile the problem is Ty doesn't understand that you have to press the pedal to make it go so he got by with a little help from big brother.
Then he decided it was fun to just push the back of the tractor and follow behind it when Gabe was driving, this worked well until Gabe decided to go in reverse:)
Luckily the battery needed to be recharged badly so it was pretty slow moving and no damage done. Despite the gloomy, cold weather the past week or so we do have a few more flowers up in our yard. These really pretty purple crocus(different from last weeks crocus)
and a few daffodils are starting to open up.
Come on warm weather:)
PS Did anyone notice that the baby on the widget on the side bar started to look kind of freaky today, it must change at 13 weeks:)
Ty thought it was okay for awhile but then realized he was not in control and it no longer worked so well. Gabe did do a good job taking turns and let Ty drive every once in awhile the problem is Ty doesn't understand that you have to press the pedal to make it go so he got by with a little help from big brother.
Then he decided it was fun to just push the back of the tractor and follow behind it when Gabe was driving, this worked well until Gabe decided to go in reverse:)
Luckily the battery needed to be recharged badly so it was pretty slow moving and no damage done. Despite the gloomy, cold weather the past week or so we do have a few more flowers up in our yard. These really pretty purple crocus(different from last weeks crocus)
and a few daffodils are starting to open up.
Come on warm weather:)PS Did anyone notice that the baby on the widget on the side bar started to look kind of freaky today, it must change at 13 weeks:)
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