We love the sun!

Today was a beautiful day so we took advantage and had lunch at the park. The weather was so great that it reminded me of living in California. Now if only there was a beach nearby.

Peek A Boo

I was cleaning out the car and took a load of stuff into the house. When I came back out this is what I found. Preston had crawled on top of the van and was playing peek a boo with Brayden. Brayden thought it was hysterical. When I got in the car later that afternoon to go pick up Madyson, there were little foot prints up and down the windshield.

Happy Easter (a few days late)

I'm not sure everyone was totally awake yet but I knew I would forget to take a picture after church!


After church I made Grandma Jolley's strawberry pie and Brayden was the lucky one who got to the beaters first!

Garden Time

We haven't had too many nice days lately but we took advantage of the one we had this weekend. Trent laid sod in the back where we had a huge dirt patch and the kids helped plant a garden. I just hope we have better luck than last year and can actually grow something. It's a small garden but Preston has been begging to do it and he was a happy boy getting his hands dirty!

A llittle bit of monkey in all of them

We removed some trees from our backyard and our first attempt didn't quite get them all the way out. The kids had a blast playing on them before we completely removed them!

Mr. Fix It

The kids did a building project a few weeks ago at Lowe's. Brayden had to sit and watch at the store but he got in on the action once they got home! Building is so much easier when you stick you tongue out!

Mowing Obsession

While Trent was out of town for a week our neighbor gave Brayden a ride on his lawn mower. After they were finished Brayden stood at our shed and cried until I let him in. Then he spent the next hour sitting on the mower begging for a ride. I finally decided that I would go ahead and drive him around. I pulled the mower out of the shed and wouldn't you know it the battery was dead. I tried to push it back in but it was so heavy I couldn't get it up the ramp. I knew it was going to storm so I decided to push it to the garage. I decided a few pushes into it that I really need to start working out. After who knows how long I finally got it into the garage. When I was finished I noticed that I had huge bruises on both legs where I had pushed against it. However, now that it was in the garage, Brayden was somewhat satisfied because he got to sit on it as much as he wanted. The things we do for our kids!
When Trent got home, before he could even make it in the house, he had to take Brayden for a ride on the mower!

1st Tournament

Madyson and Preston participated in their first Karate tournament a few weeks ago. The both did a great job and they both took 2nd place in weapons. Madyson did Kama's and Preston did Bo Staff. (Austin was on camera since I was video taping - We still need to work on his photography skills)

In Like a Lion

This was the scene on our trampoline last Tuesday, during spring break:

This is our trampoline today, one week later:
Last night we were on our way home from karate when I got a call from our neighbor who said "Angie, I just wanted to let you know that your trampoline is in our tree." The wind had blown the trampoline over the fence and landed it in a tree. Our sweet neighbors did not want it to break free and continue blowing down the block so they got it out of the tree and took it apart before we could make it home.

Poor Preston is quite upset. The trampoline is his favorite and he had just gotten it at Christmas. He uses it everyday and all morning kept telling me how sad he is that it is ruined.

I was up most of the night because of the thunder, wind, hail, and water draining from the gutter outside my window. Luckily the kids slept through most of it. The power went out and was off for a few hours. Madyson slept through all of the storm but woke up because the dvd player made a noise when the power came back on, go figure!

Then this morning I went to take the trash cans out, which were blown over, and found Austin's new basketball hoop blown over, in the middle of the driveway and all bent up.

We have never really had many problems with the weather, but this year the wonderful weather has claimed our roof, trampoline, fence, and basketball goal. Spring this year has definetly come in like a lion.