mowing

andrew loves to mow, if you ask him he would probably tell you otherwise but he really is good at it and gets the lines just right.  tyse on the other hand, not sure he will be quite the perfectionist, but hes giving it a shot!!

my helper

a few weeks ago my sister started helping me during the day with the kids. she loves to help make lunch, fold laundry and read books. the kids always look forward to her coming because she will pick up feathers that she finds on her walk here!! thanks for all your help jill!! here she is making turkey sandwiches to take to the park for a picnic.

a growin' and a growin'

little jack is growing up so fast!! he is turning into quite the little monkey. he was so proud of himself for climbing up on the tub of toys.

Hot Wheel FUN!!

Tyse and Jacks new favorite activity.  Notice how dirty they are-that's how we wager whether it was a good day or not!!  It was a fun day!!

GoOd OlE' aLBaNy DaYs!!

Who ever dreamed that we would be taking 3 boys to albany days. I loved it when I was little, and the boys thought it was great too!!


grinding corn up into chicken feed

standing by an old steam tractor

pure heaven for tyse!!

apparently andrew was running off with some friends, because i had no picts' of him :(

before and after........

So, on the last post where I mentioned that Tyse had put gum in his hair....that wasn't just to be funny, he really did. Here are the before and after photos. Also, for all of you who want to post a comment on how to get gum out of hair....i do know the peanut butter and ice trick.......but seriously do you think I have time to sit and pick gum out of hair? It was much easier to cut it out and get a haircut later.

we're back!!

yea, i know its been a long time. we lost our camera, so no picts. until we get a new one....hopefully soon. since last post, andrew has started 2nd grade and my oh my was i ready for him to go. if you look around you will see moms moping around crying like they lost their dog, cat or best friend....not me, i was ready, he was ready, see ya!! no really, when you know that he loves school, has an awesome teacher, whats not to look forward to. jack has been sitting up for awhile now and has been crawling for alittle over a week. tyse, hmmmm-he just put gum in his hair :)


this is a post that i have been wanting to write...well since the day it happened. it was our annivarsary and jas and i were headed to topeka-no boys just us....to do some school shopping. had a great time-of peace and quite. got home about 7, calmed the boys down put them to bed and started cleaning up a bit. noticed the carbon monoxide detector was laying on the end table, so i called mom up (she was the sitter) and asked her why the detector was laying on the end table. oh yea, she said she forgot to tell us that the "fire alarm" went off, it was down in the basement and andrew had told her that it always goes off (ok i do forget about supper once in a while, but not that often) then i preceded to tell her that it was not a fire alarm, it was a carbon monoxide detector. she said it went off about an hour after we left-----yikes thats not good. jasper put the batteries in and took it down to the basement to do a test and sure enough we had a carbon monoxide leak. he then brought it upstairs and tested..yep carbon monoxide up there too. to make a long story shorter we knew it had to be coming from the hot water heater so we shut it off and opened all the windows and slept peacefully..well, everyone except for me, i was up and about checking on the boys once in a while to make sure they were still breathing. that night jas found where it was leaking, through a rusted pipe, and made it good as new the next morning. FYI, once your alarm goes off you need to get a new one because it will get so much carbon monoxide in it and the detector still thinks its there, so it will keep going off although your air is clear (thanks to the sabetha fire department for that tid-bit). i can still remember when we were standing in wal-mart deciding if we should get one-do we really need one...i mean seriously would we ever really need it? thank God we got one!!