Who taught this kid to drive?

I am now beginning to really understand why Trever didn't get a "John Deere" until he was 3...not 22 months! Trever got the tractor for Christmas 2008 from Grandy and Papa Jack and this past Christmas they thought he needed to upgrade to the gator. I'm not going to yell "Spoiled" yet but I have to be on the "New every two" plan just for a cell phone. I'm just sayin. Anyway, so now we have an abandoned tractor...yeah right. Casen claimed that dude back when there was snow on the ground (not last week but in the actual Winter) ;) Today he finally figured out the "hold the pedal down constantly" thing. Apparantley he hasn't figured out the steering. Daddy took the boys outside to play and we had 2 accidents...within 5 minutes! I have to tell y'all that in a set of parents there is usually a panicky one and then there's the one that doesn't panic until Med-Flight lands..that's me. Michael is still afraid for our kids to go down stairs. Y'all I have a theory on this. I think it's all about where you were raised. Anyway, back to my story. So Michael decides he is going to multi-task (you see where this is going) and work on our landscaping while Casen is learning to drive. Next thing you know, Casen and tractor are in the barb-wire fence and Casen is yelling. One heart attack later Michael realizes that Casen is mad at the fence and that is why he is yelling...see pics of the tractor. Y'all he ran almost through the fence.

So Michael gets him out of the fence and turns him loose again and he drives straight into Michaels tail gate and keeps going, getting stuck under it. *sigh* He learned this from his Dad bc I never had any wrecks. (If you know me you are rolling your eyes at this point) Now I said I wasn't the panicky one but I nearly panicked at this point bc y'all I thought Michael wasn't going to make it! He handled it better than I thought he would have but still his nerves had had enough!

(Notice Casens eye in this pic...he climbed up on Trever's dresser and jumped off...not missing a chair...thankfully it didn't need stitches. Yes, I am a Dr part time) Here is Casen back on it after all of this. He is one tough cookie!


After all of this I then cannot find my other child...you know my good one...jk...sorta. Now this is something that I will straight loose my mind over...not being able to find my kids. So don't worry, I got my payback for making fun of Michael. Trever finally answered me...I think he could hear that panicky/cracking sound in my voice and this is where he was...

Nothing like having a house of boys!

Library Time!

Both of the boys love books right now. Everytime we go somewhere Trever wants a book and Heaven help you if you check him out of school on a Friday before his class has gone to the library (or forget that it is Fri. and somehow don't manage to make sure his book is in his backpack so he can swap it :/). Y'all know I am a little on the cheap side and am not buying everybody a book everytime we go somewhere so I thought about the library! Michael and I both have a Bible Study group that we attend seperately one night a week. Michael's night is Tue. so I thought what a good thing for us to do after supper on Tue. nights! I think we all know that when Daddy doesn't come home after work the day can get very lllooonnnnggg. The Hsv. Library has a branch office in Hazel Green. I think they have weird hours but on Tue. night they are open until 8pm which works great for us! So, I loaded the boys up and off we went to get our library cards! I had one when I was younger...ok, when I was younger I got a drivers license so I guess I had a library card when I was a kid. :/ I think in all my excitment over my great idea I forgot a very important thing: library's are quiet. We were not quiet...at all. Thankfully, this is a small library and not very busy at 7pm. Kids' library cards now-a-days are cute! They are colorful with confetti and stars on them. When the girl handed Trever his, he said "Yeeessss! Now I have a party card and I can have parties here" ??? I think the confetti threw the little guy off bc the librarian (and me) had never heard anyone associate partying with a library card. Anyway, we got our books and movies and headed for home! I have to say that I forgot the library had movies and this one has a slew of Veggie Tales which means that I don't have to buy them since we can't get them on tv anymore. Cha-ching in my pocket! Once we got home I decided to take their pics with their new library cards. I have posted some pics. I also posted a pic toward the end of Casen's new dance move that he discovered while taking library cards pics!

That's just what boys do!

Tilled ground + 2 boys = :)

When the ground was tilled for the garden when I was little, the big thing to do was to go barefoot and just run and race until you couldn't go anymore. Well, I was a girl. Trever saw this as a prime time to go digging for worms! Casen is catching on. ;) We took advantage of another day where the sun decided to shine. We went to Granny's and got shovels, a rolling bucket, Granny herself, and my two kids went to town! I am posting pics of the first "worm of the year" that Trever dug up. Poor worm. Anyway, Casen was just not too sure what to think. He kept making the same face over and over (see pics). He wanted to hold it so bad but just couldn't. For those of you that do not know, he is very particular with textures of things. The balls with all the slimy looking strings on them, yeah, he dry heaves and screams "Ow" everytime he sees them. So a worm probably doesn't register much different on his untouchable radar. He does have pretend worms that he carries around in his pockets and takes baths with so I think he's trying! Trever takes "worm hunting" very seriously and I feel like the shirt he had on that day was quite appropriate!

How does your garden grow?!

Slowly, is our answer! :) When I was little we always had a big garden in between my house and Granny's and I always just thought that it was the best thing. Now, I live back in that house with my kids so it would only be right that we have a garden in between our house and Granny's...right? Well, Michael and I have wanted to have a garden for a few years and have just never gotten around to having one. Like it's so easy you can just "have" one. I tried my hand at the Topsy Turvy tomato plant grower last year and only let it die twice so we thought we would go all out this year. Ok, Granny talked us into it. With a twinkle in her eye she said that she would provide all of her years of gardening knowledge if we would do the labor part since she is falling apart.. physically (her words..not mine);)If you have ever had a garden then you know what the twinkle in her eye was about. Gardening is hard work.(this was about 2 or 3 weekends ago) So Papa Jack brought the tractor up and started to till the ground for our very own garden. In the pic you see Michael with shorts on and Papa Jack with a coat on. This is bc my poor husband had been in the bed for two days with the stomach bug but rolled out and walked up there to watch the making of this thing. Dedication. What you can't see is Granny on the other side of the tractor "supervising" only to then let us all know that the rows were going in the wrong direction. So far so good :) I will keep you updated about our garden...

Smores!!

I know Trever and Casen are still small but to us there is no better time to try to start making memories with them! A lot of times, especially now, people think that making memories with their kids is either going to cost them a lot of money (like having to actually go on vacay) or a lot of time. I don't know of any parents that have a lot of both. I am thankful that Michael and I don't seem to be afraid to slow down or to not give our kids the best of the best in order to make a memory with them. So a few weekends ago we had a little bit of warm weather (this was about a month ago and we hit 50 ;) so we decided that we would grill out. While at the store I thought about making smores. I called Michael and he thought it was a great idea. He has been working on building us a fire pit outside anyway so what a great way to try it out! After supper we bundled the boys up (as it had gotten back down in the 40's by this point) and headed out to the fire that Michael had built. We roasted their marshmallows for them (we are brave but not that brave ;) and showed them how to put them together. They were thrilled! Both boys have a big sweet tooth so they were catching on to this quickly! Anyway, we put several together and then brought them in to eat since we were about frozen. I love a good Smore as much as anyone but I wish I would have video'd them eating them. This was a first for both boys. Casen took a bite and said "mmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmmm" I posted pics of them. I thought this was a cheap but great thing to do to make memories! (the pic of casen is his new "cheese")

Piddlin'

No, not what your puppy does on your couch but that thing that we all used to do...before life got so busy. There are weekends where Michael (and sometimes the boys) will be heading out the door and of course I ask where he is going and he says "Piddlin" with a grin on his face. He will return a few hours later with nothing special to report that he had done or gotten acomplished. Well, since we had the stomach virus for about two weeks (I never had it but all the boys kept swapping it) I found myself, a few weeks ago, wanting to get out of the house. Trever and I really needed some fresh air (and we were desperately trying to avoid being around the other two since they were sick) so we went to my Momma's and got Papa Jack's 4 wheeler. We packed a lunch and headed out...nowhere in particular, just going. We took pics of the new calf and then stopped by the pond out in the pasture and had a wonderful picnic. Time passes so slowly and quietly outside. Not only was it so peaceful but the time that I got to spend just setting and talking to my biggest little man was priceless. Then we got to just drive up and down the road visiting! (For those of you that don't know most of my family lives on the same road) It kinda made me think back to the old "front porch" thing where everyone got together in the afternoons and just talked while kids played. Now houses don't even have front porches because there isn't a need for them. While I hate that the reason I was reconnected with piddlin was because Michael and Casen were sick, Trever and I had a great time! I think we should all slow down and take more time to just "piddle"!

Ok, I have caved in to pressure and now have a family "blog". I just want to say that I am in no way, shape, or form a "blogger" nor do I use correct English or punctuation all the time. Sorry. I am going to use this site to post happenings at our house and to just keep anyone that cares updated on our little world. I am not promising to update regularly but I will try :/! One of the main reasons that I was motivated to do this was so that I could make note of things that my kids were doing or milestones that they have hit (or which part of the house they distroyed this time:/ ). I don't always remember or have time to write them down right then but maybe this will help me hold on to some memories! Here goes...