Ostrich festival!

My boys!

Band competition!

Fire pit!

I love nights spent next to the fire pit. (Marshall loves the s’mores!)

When your best girl asks you to take the top off and drive around for a while

Of course you say yes!!!

Band trip

My girl is off on her first band trip! Temecula here she comes!

The Super Bowl

Marshall was super excited to watch the super bowl. He set up tables and snacks. He was rooting for the Bengals. The Rams won the game at the last minute. But we still had a nice time watching the game. 

BIPE

Mia playing the marimba! 9th grade!

My boys!

Sundays are for yard work!

Facebook memories!

This photo popped up in my Facebook memories from 13 years ago today. Man I hate how time flies. This is one of my favorite pictures of my best girl! 

Mocha!

What did we ever do without this pooch?!?

Double Digits!

Happy happy birthday Marshall! We are so glad you were born. 

Here are 10 things about you!

1) You are funny!

2) You have an amazing memory

3) You love nerf guns, but seldom actually shoot bullets from them because the dog will get them! So you just pretend. 

4) You love watching gamers on YouTube. 

5) You love video games. 

6) You love Mocha so much. 

7) You are good at math and get great grades in school. 

8) Your favorite TV shows right now are King Of The Hill and America’s Funniest Home Videos. 

9) Your favorite movie is Aliens. 

10) You are really getting in to basketball and hockey. 

We love you so much buddy. Hope your year is wonderful. 

Santa brought Marshall a drum kit for Christmas and he had his first drum lesson tonight! 

Mocha!

We got so lucky when we got this pooch! He is just the best. 

Look at that tongue!

He loves laying in a sunny spot!

Black eyed peas!!!

For good luck in 2022!

Whatcha gonna do in 2022?!?

I have decided that I really want to get back in to blogging and documenting our family again. That is what I’m gonna do in 2022!!!

Quails!!!

Just about 2 weeks ago daddy was doing yard work and he discovered a quail nest in my geranium pot out front!

We were so excited and intrigued by this! We watched and checked in on mommy and the eggs a couple times a day.

I checked out a book about quails and we learned all about them. Sadly we learned that the quail with the beautiful red head and plume was the daddy quail.

 It is usually the mommy that tends the nest, but if something happens to mommy then daddy takes over.

This evening while I was cooking dinner the kids were looking out the front window and exclaimed that there was a baby bird! We all went outside and saw it! SOOOOO tiny and cute. Daddy was skittering about and chirping. He seemed just like a nervous new dad!

There are 10 other eggs in the nest and we can't wait to see the rest of the baby birds!

Happy 4th of July!

We enjoyed a lovely family day! 

Cheers!

Mermaid Tail 2!!

Mia has been asking me to make her another mermaid tail.

Remember the first one?!?

I bought the material a couple weeks ago and have heard daily "Can we make my mermaid tail today?!"

So this morning I decided to do it!

She is so happy and loving life!