Summer

It was pretty sweet watching the girls trying to jump for leaves from the plum trees to feed Buddy

 Adie was picking out her favorite peas and keeping them safe in her feet so nobody else would get them

Buddy

Our new little calf.  He went through a few names before we settled on Buddy.  We finally convinced the girls that John Candy and King John didn't roll of the tongue when we were calling him.  We did name him, they also know his destiny...

WOC 2012

the crew: we went from 6 kids last year, to 9 this year, and will have 11 next year.  After looking at last years blog post from this weekend it made me realize how non competitive I was this year. Sorry ladies, I'll be back next year.

 We were able to come up with a bouncy house this year, which really helped us ignore the kids.  We might even be purchasing our first "time share" so we have them for future get togethers

 All of these pictures of Ashlynn with the Cheetohs weren't taken at once, we had to detox for a couple days after this weekend

                                                         Bouncy house accident

The newest addition was Simone, she was a smiley little one too!

 The guys preparing the meat for dinner...I guess they had to make sure the Traeger didn't blow up

 Love seeing the little twins and what it takes now that we're removed from that stage of feeding, changing, sleeping (or not sleeping).  When we asked the girls their favorite thing about our weekend, playing with the babies came in third behind Cheetohs and the bouncy house

We had another successful Weekend of Competition.  And by successful I mean we had a lot of fun and got to catch up with everyone.  This year we did paint ball target shooting, basketball, frisbee toss, and a yard game.  Guys won basketball, frisbee, and the yard game.  The ladies won everything else.  I still think we should get bonus points for pregnancies or nursing mothers, I'm sure the guys will agree next year when there isn't as much of that going on.  It's been fun this week to listen to Adie and Eliza talk about the fun they had. I hear them saying things like "remember when Eva jumped and we were cracking up at her?"  or "Remember when Big Jesse said no girls allowed and we were cracking up at him" I know this is a weekend the kids will start looking forward to as much as the adults do. 

Riding Bikes

This was fun!  I came home from grocery shopping, and we ate lunch and had a little rest/quiet time without them saying anything to me about learning to ride a bike while I was gone.  When I got Ashlynn to sleep we went outside and they both had huge smiles as they grabbed their bikes and took off. I couldn't believe it.  Ryan said he had them go down the little hill a few times each on the strider bike to let them get use to steering, and when he put them on the bike without training wheels they just took off. Adie is in the purple getup, and Eliza in the jeans.  Ryan and I agreed that we don't think it will get old seeing them cruise around, we were pretty proud of them today. And yes dad we will always be out there watching out for cars on the driveway.