Wildlife

We were cleaning out our "garage" and opened up one of the top shelves and found a little bird nest. We were about to scoop it out until we saw these little guys! There were 3 birds and one egg that hadn't hatched yet. They are kinda ugly suckers :) It will be fun to check on them and see how they grow

Lane also has learned how to catch chickens....well at least one chicken. It's pretty cute and he's actually very gently with them when he's holding them!

He loves his chicken! It's almost as big as he is!! We asked him what he wanted to name her, and he couldn't think of anything....we'll work on that :)

We also found our baby kittens!!! Apparently the "Wood Lodge" is a fertile place this year. Baby birds, baby humans, and baby kittens! Just wait till our chickens start laying eggs! hopfully those won' tbe hatching....they'll be eaten... :)

Anyways, our cat had kittens like 6-7 weeks ago, and we could never find them so we gave up and figured they didn't make it. WELL they have been living in our shed too! They are WILD little things. we caught one and it almost tore my arm off. SO we have our work cut out for us taming these things. I wouldn't care to leave them wild but i don't want them to start inbreeding!! SO we need to catch them and get them fixed. They're really cute, but definately little wild kitties.

Equal Opportunity

I can't show one messy kid without giving equal airtime to the other one :) Sometimes I get a little crazy and just let Lucy go to town with her food and dump it all over her tray. She thinks it's pretty neat. If you look closely you can see her first tooth: Bottom Right one poking up. The ones on either side are also coming up and we've learned that Lucy is NOT a happy teether. Just at night time though so i guess it could be worse. But then again, not sleeping for a couple nights in a row just MIGHT be THE worst......:)

Good thing she's pretty cute!

skeletons and wussies

Lane decided he liked skeletons for a day, and last halloween i actually picked up this costume on clearance to use this year (too bad he's already outgrown it....DOH!) anyways, he saw it and INSISTED on wearing it......pretty much the WHOLE day. I had to draw the line when he was running around outside with it in the 80 degree sun sweating his brains out becuase he was so hot in it!! Here's he's showing us the skeletons muscles!

The other day I made Lane a microwave smore for dessert. I was upstairs, and Scott comes RUNNING upstairs and says, "your idea, your mess" I was expecting totally ruin and disaster when I came downstairs, but was met with this:

Seriously??? That's all?? I thought. This is the mess my poor husband was afraid of? Hmm...clearly I don't give him enough opportunities to change poopy diapers or something! :)

First 'do

I decided Lucy was ready for pigtails.....here's our first attempts at fixing lucy's hair! She is NOT a big fan of having someone mess with her hair, so we had to do it REALLY fast, But she actually left it in all day, i was impressed. I liked the one spike better than the two pigtails. For church that day I put a little bow on her spike, and she was pretty much the cutest thing I ever saw :)

Lucy and her spike
the pigtail attempt. Cute, but too much like antennae......

Tho the two pigtails DO give me TWO places to put big flowers......soooooo we'll see :)

A little late

When we were in Ohio we took the traditional Young's Dairy trip. Always a good time for all. We ate ice cream, fed the goats, and rode on some tractors. Young's is getting a little bit crazy though, they've added rides and mini-golf, and all kinds of stuff. I kind of miss the simple Young's, but I guess nothing stays the way you remember it as a kid.

Lane saying hi to the baby cow
Riding the sweet barrell airplanes. We are totally going to make some of these to tow behind the 4-wheeler!

eating ice cream! lucy was enjoying some kind of paper good :)

we had a little bit of a time waking Lane up for ice cream. He TOTALLY passed out in the car on the way to Youngs, and we could barely revive him with ice cream......craziness!

Still out.....I think cousin nathan finally was able to wake him up. It was a good thing we had ice cream waiting for him after disturbing his nap!

Riding the tractor

More barrell planes

Feeding the goats

More goats

Lucy was a big fan of the animals....she REALLY wanted to pet the cows

Happy Independance Day!

I love Independance day! I love fireworks, and I love our country!

Scott and I waiting for the fireworks. Can I just say that I LOVE that we were wearing sweatshirts and jeans.....IN JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucy with "gramma" Deb waiting for fireworks. Lucy did great.....fireworks actually put her to sleep. We'll add that to the list.....right up there with dirtbike rides :)

Lane waiting for fireworks.....he was SOO helarious to watch during the show...he LOVED it, and had a blast running around and staying up late.

Lucy getting tired :) again....check out those eye lashes!! geez