Spring!

After a lot of cold and snow and just YUCK, it finally decided to get nice around here. Daddy had to mow tonight! The trees are green, the magnolias are in bloom, the hyacinths are just about done! And we have been enjoying A LOT of time outside! Woo hoo! Just a random round up of some outdoor play:


Some outdoor projects:





This is some serious supervision:


I keep trying to take the kids to a playground in the afternoon and they keep telling me no, they want to play in the yard. Sometimes I DO win though and we go to the playground.




So,so, so happy to be OUTSIDE again! Oh yeah, and dirty.

Knee High By the Fourth of July, Or More!!!

My amazing Grandfather is a farmer, and one of his farmer sayings goes "Knee high by the Fourth of July...," meaning is the corn as high as the farmer's knee by July 4th. Some years it is, some years you need to be creative in knee measurements. I remember when my cousin Samantha was a baby (she just turned 14), they had to use her knee to measure the corn! I might have to find the picture of her measuring the corn as a new 1 year old and scan it. This year the corn looks pretty good, and it probably is as high as the farmer's knee, but we took some baby pictures in the corn anyway. This also documents the twins first time in dirt. They like grass, and they seemed to tolerate the dirt as well. Colin even tried to eat a rock.

Hmmm, this looks interesting.


Eating his first rock. I'm sure it won't be the last.


Gillian thinks this is awesome corn.


Been farming long???

(Really, she just wanted his hat)