Crazy kids!

It was a hot day.....and our air conditioner was broken for about a 48 hour period!  No futher explination needed. 

 Yes, that is Batman and Robin riding around in that Jeep!  And then there is what they do with their toys.  Tyge tries to feed his cows everything, strawberries, crackers, grapes, popcorn.....anything he is snacking on, he will put some in a "feeder" (sometimes our coat rack/umbrella stand) for his cows.  I found poor Woody strapped to the firetruck.  And then while I was mowing the lawn and though he was playing innocently, I found the entire contents of Tyge's piggy bank, out on the back patio, with all of his cows arranged on top of the coins.  The excitement never ends around here!

Life on the farm

On Saturday we were up with the sun (literally....out the door by 5am!), heading north to move cows back home.  A few of our pairs, in addition to Donald and Heather's cows were up at a his dad's place near Molalla.  In all there were six trailer loads back to Brownsville.  Lucky for us, the day was coordinated by super-planner Donald and he had extra trailers and drivers lined up so everyone only needed to make one trip!  The boys had a great time, while I just tried to keep them and the two little girls (Dani slept almost the whole time) out of the way.   

 

 

 The other evening we were headed to check cows at the neighbor's place....I loved the way the sun was hitting Carol's barn and couldn't resist the picture.  I also liked both pictures I took of our bull, and one of Gracie trying her hardest to pull some leaves off the tree.  Cindy's horse is also out there, the boys keep asking to bring him apples or carrots and I keep forgetting.

 In other happenings.....within the last two weeks Weston has become a pretty good quad rider.  He is actually quite good, easing into the gas pedal, putting it into reverse to back it into the barn to park it, etc.  He wants to go faster, but we won't let him out of first gear.  He typically only goes in circles around the house, but every now and then I will let him take a trip around the field.  Tyge kept wanting to go with him, so I already had to buy him a helmet too!

4th of July

Just as we did last year, we spent 4th of July at Jacob and Tabitha's house, bbq'ing burgers and dogs.  Later that evening we went into town to watch Brownsville's awesome firework display. 

 

You can't help but think of all the trouble those three boys will get into as they get older!!

 Earlier that week we got our hay cut and baled.  This year I didn't get many pictures, since I was either driving the truck or loading bales onto the trailer while Madison drove.  I only manged to get one of Tyge passed out on the way back to the house with a load, another of the boys taking a break, and the kids dancing on the trailer because the last load for the day was almost stacked in the barn. 
























One afternoon that same week I found a slip'n'slide for five bucks and brought him home.  Weston and Tyge had a ton of fun, and Madison and Lexie even joined in.  Dani and I got to watch it all sitting under the nearby tree.

 
 

My backlog of pictures from June....

Things are busy and I don't remember very often that I need to update this blog!  I had to go back to the middle of June to pull some pictures that were post worthy. 

 

We are renting a new pasture from some neighbors about a mile down the road from us, and it is right next to the old schoolhouse.  The boys loved to play around it while Danny was working on some fencing.  I also thought the snapshot I took that same afternoon of all of the kids, including Flo in the truck was worth sharing.

 

 

Tyge stepped on a bee and walked around with a swollen foot for a few days.....Weston then got it on the ear last Saturday, but I forgot to take a picture of that one!

 In June we also had Pioneer Picnic!  This year Weston wanted to ride his bike in the kiddie parade so we joined the parents and pals group.  Weston finally fits in his yellow shirt from two years ago, but neither kid would put on their pirate bandanna.

 That Saturday included the pancake breakfast down at the park, followed by the grand parade and then fun and games back down at the park. 

 
 

 We learned that Tyge likes to cheat at all the games....good thing he is young and cute enough to get away with it!

 

June happenings

 We had a lot going on the last two weeks of June outside of the boys' daily swim lessons.  Uncle Scott was working at a pit close to us and so he stayed at our house a few nights.  One afternoon we were lucky enough to get invited to see them blast where he was drilling.  Might be a little hard to see in these pictures, but I got a before, start of, and after picture.  The boys got a big kick out of the loud "boom". 

The next week we went to an Emeralds game with the crew from my work.  This is the second year we've done it and I think it will have to be a summertime tradition.  Uncle Scott got to come with us since he was back in town.  Dani got passed around quite a bit, Tyge ran around talking with anyone and everyone who would listen, and Weston stuck close by me because he was terrified that their mascot might come visit him.
 

Swimming update

After two weeks of lessons, Weston continued to do great and Tyge continued to get worse and worse.  In week one, Ty would sit in the pool and whine a little.  In the second week he started climbing out of the pool, and by the end of that week he didn't even get in it at all.  I figure since he is only two I'm not going to fight him.  Weston wants to swim all the time now, and really wanted people to come watch him to do it.  Dad came with us one day, and on the last day of lessons (which is a "free swim" day, Darlene joined us and watched Dani so I could get in the pool.  On this last day Tyge got in a few times to sit on the steps, but never wanted to swim around with me.  Weston got really brave and jumped off the diving board.  Once he found out it wasn't so bad, he did it again and again.  Now we have a two week break and then we go back for our second session of lessons.  It can't come soon enough for Weston....every morning he asks if he can go to swim school.