Happy Birthday Alli

The big 3 years! Hope you had a great day babe! We love you!

Hooray the cast is off!

Ok so the cast has been off for 2 weeks today. But we've been so busy running around that I haven't taken the time to take a picture. And I have a complex about blogging without pictures. :0) I'm amazed at the body's ability to heal itself. He was walking the day after the cast came off. And now 2 weeks later, he's hardly even limping. I'm so grateful to my Heavenly Father for the blessings that he has given to us. It could have been so much worse than it was. Troy has had the best attitude that you could imagine a 2 year old having about it all. I'm so happy to have Troy as a part of our family. And I'm excited for him to be able to run, and play, and swim with the best of them.

PEAS!!!!

Hooray!!!! We have a garden! I was showing my mom today how excited I am that my garden is growing, everything is up and there are blossoms on my peas, NO wait a second.... There are PEAS on my PEAS! I'm a gardener! I have a garden! It has vegtables in it! THAT I DIDN'T KILL!!! I ate peas from my garden today!!!!

Raindrops on roses...

I love listening to the sounds of thunder rolling in. Marking the beginning of a summer thunderstorm. The smell of the earth, the plump raindrops splashing around, the wide eyes of my boys when the thunder claps closer, and closer. We had a good time splashing in the puddles. And just as quickly as it came, it continues on.... So we'll paitently wait for the next one.

Weeds!!!

So this is the thousands of weeds that I have let overtake my back yard. Yikes!!!

And These are Zacks weed pulling gloves. Woo Hoo!!!

And apparently this is his "little break" chair. Nice try mom!

In the mind of a 6 yr old

So Zack is usually my funny man, but tonight Kolby came up with a good one. Gabe came home from work and sat down next to Kolby. Kolby says, "Dad, you don't smell very good, you need to take a shower." Gabe says, "You want me to give you a beat down?" Kolby says, "Well ok, but afterwords you should really take a shower." Ha!

Just a couple funny things

So I know you all probably get bored with all my "funny sayings" I just wouldn't write them down if I didn't blog them so bear with me. Well, we had a great weekend with our Bentley cousins last weekend. We always do. But for some reason this trip, Kolby & Levi buddied up, instead of the usual (Kolby & Gage, and Zack with Levi) Well Gage came in crying, and crying saying Kolby doesn't want to be my favorite cousin anymore. So we tried to console him and he and Zack paired up, and everything seemed fine. But when we were driving home that evening I heard Zack tell Kolby, "Well if you decide you want to be my friend again, just give me a call some time." Nothing leading up to that, and nothing after, just that. It made me chuckle. And then last night Gabe had gotten some movies. So I told the boys that they had to get their room clean before they could come out and watch it. So I was yelling for them to hurry. And Troy yells after me. Booooooyssss, hurry up an' get yur room cween. I said, Troy you live here too, maybe you should go and help them clean the room, and he looked at me like I was crazy and said, "mom I got a bwoken weg." like I had forgotten. It was so funny. We're almost to the 2 week countdown. I can't believe it's been a month. It seems like a year. Gabe leaned over to me at church today, and said it's going to be really strange to see him walking again. And it really will be. It's been such a crazy thing to have to care for him again like he is a baby. Just don't call him a baby out loud. He will strictly correct you. "NOT I a baby, names Troy!"

the wonderful world of T-Ball

This is my all time favorite T-Ball picture ever!!! I mean really.....

I was practicing for the "real" t-ball pictures, and look at my cute little man! This is what the wallets will look like.