While The Cat Was Away....

...We Mice Played!


The boys took a little train ride at the school's Spring Fling. We certainly donated our share to the fundraiser! Ugh!

DVB and I went to our local outdoor mall and did a little pre-shopping park playing!

On Sunday I was feeling brave so after they all got haircuts, we went to Red Robin for lunch. They were very well behaved and ate all their lunch! Amazing news right there!


DVB doing a little stump sittin! We were waiting for DJB's class to arrive at a local dairy farm for a tour. I had been there when LOB's class went there 2 years ago and thought DVB would enjoy it too!

This is DJB feeding a 25 year old horse a carrot.

DJB hugging a chicken, no a rooster! (right?)

This picture is for Grandpa B! DVB would not get off this tractor!

DVB found some cute little bunnies.

So while GOB was away enjoying his Talladega experience, we kept ourselves busy. We are now anxiously awaiting his arrival and I'll now be checking out for a few days! I wish! Actually, I'll get my girl's time away the first week of June! I just booked the resort last night and I'm counting down the days! Paybacks!

Here I Go Again....

I think I will change my goal of blog posting to once a week since that is all I can seem to find time to do these days! It's making me feel a teeny tiny bit guilty but i don't think I'll lose any sleep over it!

I'm going to a Tid Bit Blog update today...a little of this and that to catch you all up on our exciting lives!

1. NASCAR was fun last weekend. 4 nights and 5 days of being surrounded by Rednecks is about all I can handle! Nothing too exciting happened this go around except for the horror that LOB and I witnessed as our neighbor dropped all his drawers to the ground! Yuck! Nasty! Gross! Scarred for life!

2. DVB is coming along wonderfully, all of a sudden, with potty training! That right there is pretty exciting news!

3. BoBo and Bumpa left today for the summer. They'll be back in August after they travel the USA! You too can travel along by reading their blog www.buzzboboandtheboys.blogspot.com

4. GOB just got back from a work meeting in FL and will be leaving again soon for a fun trip to Talladega! (he's meeting up with Uncle B, Aunt J, and his in-laws) Don't worry, I'll be getting my kid-free all girls vacation the beginning of June!

5. I'm on the lookout for some good airline prices to fly back to MN/IA in July. I'm getting very frustrated with the fluctuating prices! How can an airline change it's prices by $100 in one day?! Anyway, my wonderful job granted me the whole month of July off! So I plan to be on vacation the entire month! We will start in MN and make our way back home via a week camping in the Rockies!

6. DJB and LOB are looking forward to their really long vacation-I can't believe they have one month of school left! We haven't told the MN grandparents that we are planning a trip back there yet (but they'll know now!) The boys are excited to go to the farm! Like CRAZY excited! So be ready up there!

7. Mom and I spent the last few days Spring cleaning. While GOB was gone, we tackled the garage! It's a big feat, believe me! We also dug out tons of baby stuff to get rid of this weekend at our neighborhood garage sale. I'm calling this "The No More Babies Garage Sale!" LOB and DJB think for some reason, that they are entitled to at least 50% of the profits because all the stuff used to be theirs! Hmmmm? I'm not too sure about that logic! They have also priced a few of their prized possessions which they are sure will sell for precisely $75! I'm afraid they may be a little disappointed come Saturday afternoon!

8. Well that's all for now! I'll update sooner if we happen to have any exciting breaking news, otherwise you won't hear from me again until next week! Have a great weekend!

Camp and Quad: It's All We Do These Days!

Sorry, my blog readers! My poor little blog has once again been put on the back burner! Ever since we got our toy hauler and the quads, we spend as much time as we possibly can using them! Therefore, my blog material is the same from every weekend-we don't do anything else these days! But that won't stop me from posting some more pictures from this past weekend that will probably look similar to the last ones! Sorry, but that's all I got!

The boys built a couple model rockets and had a BLAST setting them off! On Sunday, LOB attached a big ugly black beetle to the rocket and sent him to outerspace! We were all amazed that he survived the trip and LOB continued to play with him! Ewww!

Everyone was having a grand ol' time until the Sheriff showed up! Doh! So I have to explain this picture. Brett, a neighbor's son, was getting a ticket for not having plates and registration on his dirt bike. But notice all the kids meticulously lined up under the camper? GOB's quick thinking is what that is all about! He's hiding the 2008 expired plates on the camper! Somehow, I'm still not quite sure how, the rest of us got out of getting tickets. We could have gotten about $1500 in fines because we didn't have the correct permits and other paperwork. GOB made me talk to the PoPo because he wanted the ticket in MY name (in case I had to go to court)! Anyway, I told the Sheriff that we were legitimately working on getting the proper stuff but it's all a process that is not fast! Thank goodness that he believed me! So needless to say, the quads were parked for the rest of the weekend. We sure weren't going to take any more chances because I'm pretty sure the Sheriff wouldn't have given us a second chance!

One of our neighbor's nephew came out with his legal sand rail. I had never ridden in one and let me tell you, it was fun! I should say it was fun until I got splattered with cow poop! Ewwww!

Somehow the Easter bunny knew we were out camping and he delivered a few hundred eggs to the desert!

We hope everyone had a weekend as great as ours was!

Our semi-annual Redneck NASCAR Weekend is coming up next!