Zeus

Some love for our sneaky-fast kitty cat...



Dear zeus, sometimes we ARE able to catch you when cal is around! sometimes... but usually, as soon as you see calvin, you take off as fast as possible in the opposite direction, which makes calvin want to hold you and squeeze you even more than ever! we DO love you, though.

Go fly a kite...

Lately we have been enjoying flying kites...

Cal is actually getting pretty good at it himself, with just a little guidance.

luckily, we have a big backyard and no power lines or trees to contend with... and to be honest, I think I am the only one that has ended up with a kite on the roof of our house so far. I never said I was a pro! On the other hand, adam makes me sick with how well he can handle and control the movement of the kites. Yet another thing that he is so much better at than me! aarrrgggghh!

sitting on the steps

sometimes it is nice to sit with your buddy on the step

sometimes, your mom will catch you sitting on the step and try to get a picture, usually you are too fast for your mom to catch pictures of you... that is, unless, you happen to be busy talking with your buddy!

Lynkin gets a new brother

Today, Lynkin's mommy went in for her scheduled C-section and Lynkin got to come over and play for a while so that his mommy and daddy could spend some time with the new baby (Lindyn).

Calvin and lynkin had a great time tearing apart the house...

then we went outside and had some more fun

We have Apples!!!

Our apple trees are finally producing!!! and the results are beautiful. We are still trying to figure out what kind of apples we have, but it appears that each of the five trees are a different kind, because they are each at a different stage of development... We were able to make an apple pie out of these big beauties that we took off the tree today. they are sweet and crunchy with a sour kick, perfect for apple pie or maybe some applesauce! The other trees are not quite ready to go yet, and all the trees will hopefully give us apples at different times so that we are not overwhelmed with them all at once...

any body need any apples?!!?

African Safari WildLife Park

Today, Calvin's speech class took an extra special field trip to the african safari in the school bus.

which is good, since adam said this was the only way our happy a$$es were gonna get to go, no way were we ever taking one of our vehicles in there!

It was not as bad as he thought, though, and the animals seemed pretty tame, aside from the fact that they really wanted all of the food that you have right NOW!

Calvin and I had a pretty heated conversation on whether or not this was an alpaca or a llama... I am still quite certain I was right!

Pool time at Grayson's

The kids think they are so darn funny!

We went to the neighbors for some cool off time in the pool today... it was pretty warm outside!