Working on the farm.

My father-in-law has a farm which he grows produce on for the farmers market.  My kids love to go out there & help pick & wash the veggies plus play in the water. :)
This week he had surgery and was unable to work on the farm so our family headed out to help.  We picked peas yesterday & today.

It's a really great feeling getting out there & getting dirty.  I took a few pictures & then the little guys took my camera & captured some of their own memories.  :)

Big D picking peas!!!

The boys took a picture of our first basket of peas.

Camryn & Coopie playing at the farm

The boys took a picture of one of the planes that flew over.  

Plus, the lovely rabbit poop :)

Camryn was tired from a long day of work at the farm!!!

Oops......

Well, I learned a valuable lesson the other day.  NEVER leave the salt & pepper shaker on the table when you have a 2 year old in the house :)

Camryn got the shakers and made a huge mess with them.  However, I did like his creativity.  What he did with the pepper makes me think that I am in for some fun pranks around this house as these boys get older.

Camryn poured pepper on his sleeping brother, Cooper.  I was thankful it was just on his arm, hand & pillow and not in his hair, ears or mouth :)  I am going to have my hands full with these 3.

Grilling made easy :)

Sunday I really didn't want to cook, but I did want to feed my kids something good.  I came across these recipes in the Martha Stewart Living magazine & had to give them a try.  They were too easy & VERY YUMMY!!!!

Martha's recipes included Beer-Steamed Potatoes, Mixed- Mushrooms & Baby Carrots all cooked in individual "hobo packs" or foil packs.
I also cooked chicken breast in a foil pack with a little bit of butter, salt, pepper & Italian season."

The potatoes

http://www.marthastewart.com/354920/beer-steamed-potato-hobo-pack

Mushrooms

http://www.marthastewart.com/354918/mixed-mushroom-hobo-pack

Carrots-   I can't wait until our carrots are ready to be picked!!!

http://www.marthastewart.com/354897/baby-carrot-hobo-pack

This was so easy, I just put the packs on the grill and sat with my feet up.  If I wasn't prego I would have enjoyed a beer while I waited :)  

Memorial Day

This year the little boys & I headed to Wilson Lake to meet up with my family.  Hubby stayed home to get things done.  It's a lot easier to mow, weed eat, etc without 3 little ones asking for rides or tagging along.  Can't blame him.  Now, if I could just get him to take the kids for a day this house would be clean!! :)

The boys had SO much fun.  Grandpa has a boat & Uncle E has a jet ski, plus LOTS of cousins to play with!!

                          Camryn loved the water.  He played like this the entire time we were there.  He was                     pretty mad when we had to leave.    

                                           

Grandpa taking the grandkids out on the boat!!  He's such a wonderful Grandpa!!!

Cousins                                                              

Devon & Easton getting ready :)

Coopie loved the boat.  He went out later with Grandpa & Grandma & went to sleep.           

My sister & her daughter.  They look more like sisters then mother-daughter :) 

Riding on the boat

 Grandma & Cooper

Great weekend.  Plus, we went & visited some special people.  I didn't get to make it to Pratt to visit my mom or brother, (and many other wonderful family members) but they know I was thinking about them. 

Happy Birthday, Big D!!

It was my step son's birthday yesterday.  He turned the big 1-5.  He's growing up way too fast.
To show him just how much we love him, we filled his truck up with balloons :)

The little boys LOVED helping!!!!  They couldn't wait to tell their big bubba what they had done!!  It was so cute to watch it all unfold.

                                           He loved it!!!  :)

Little cupcakes to celebrate.  His real cake was his favorite...... cheesecake!

It's baby time.....again.

Well, almost all of my friends and family know that we're expecting again.  It was hard to wait, but we didn't spill the beans until I was 15 weeks.

That was a hard secret to keep :)  It won't be long until we can find out what we are having, June 8th!!!!

I love when people ask me if we are going to find out or not and then watch them as they act so shocked & disappointed.   HELLO.....do you know me at all.  I hate to wait for things.  Plus, the last thing I want to do is bring home a girl in nothing but blue stuff :)

So, yes, I am finding out what we're having!!!  I'll keep you all posted.


                                                           The little peanut at 15 weeks.

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