Kitty's

Luke named all the kitty's last night. My kid has quite the sense of humor! Dorito, Cheeto, Chimichanga, Lasagna, & Pizza. LMBO! Here are some pictures the boys & I took last night.

Here is Dorito. LOL

Taco had her babies!!

When I got home this afternoon from work Ben told me to check out how skinny Taco was again. I was so excited to hear that she finally had her babies! Now we had to try to find them...that isn't so easy on 5 acres of land! First we checked the stove shed, I thought she would be there for sure. Nope, not there. We looked everywhere, the garage, under the front deck, in the boat, in the wood pile. Nowhere to be found. I was really wishing Taco could talk right now. Ben then looked in his workbench. Yep, that's where she had them....in a cabinet in Ben's workbench. Funny! So, Taco had 5 of the cutest little babies. They are all black like she is & she is taking really good care of them. I'll take pictures as soon as Taco will let us take them out of the cabinet.
Luke & Kurt are over the moon. :)

Its been awhile...Preschool Graduation...etc

It has been to long since I wrote here. We have been so busy lately that I don't have time to get anything done it seems. Here are a few things we've been up to.

First I'll start with Luke's Graduation from Preschool. I can't believe my "baby" is going to be starting Kindergarten in the fall!!! At school they had a little program for the kids to show the parents some of the songs they had learned over the year. It was pretty cute. One of the songs was "Down on Grandpa's Farm", I'm sure Gramps would have loved that one! Here are some pictures from the program.

Another thing that has been going on here is that Luke & Kurt have a babysitter come to the house 2 times a week for the summer. Her name is Kayla & she is a wonderful girl. The boys LOVE her & she loves them too. She brings her brother Wyatt along 1 day a week too. The boys love to play farm with him. Ben has know Kayla's family since he was a boy so we feel totally comfortable with Kayla being with the boys all day. We couldn't ask for a better babysitter. :) I'll have to get pictures of her & the boys so I can post them here.

We have also been busy taking Luke to Kinderball this summer. It is 2 nights a week for a hour. He is loving it!! They are actually starting to learn the fundimentals of the game & not just goofing around. It is fun to meet the parents of the kids too. Luke will be switching from HLWW school district to the Maple Lake district this year so it is nice to meet people in the district.

Kurt has been busy too. It hasn't all been about Luke...though it seems to be sometimes. Kurt is learning so much everyday. The vocabulary on this kid is amazing. His favorite words are Spongebob & SUCKER! The kid loves suckers & Spongebob. I don't know what it is about Spongebob but he certainly has my kids under his spell! Kurt is so much different then Luke was at this age. I tell you, he is STUBBORN...big time! If he doesn't get what he wants or if we say no to something, he has a FIT! The kind where he throughs himself down on the ground & screams. UGH! But then he is also sweet as can be. The kisses he gives & his smile just melts my heart.

Luke has also been busy having friends over. He had his first sleepover at Kade's (our neighbor) house & had Kade sleepover at our house one night too. He's had his buddy Jace over a couple times too. They love to play on the trampoline.
It is nice to see both of the boys having a great summer. Oh & Taco (our cat) is going to be having babies any day now. We are so excited to see them!!

Memorial Weekend Craziness

What a weekend we had!! On Saturday morning we started our trip out to Ben's parents lake house in Western Minnesota. It is about 2 1/2 hours from our house so I wasn't really looking forward to the trip with the kiddo's, thank goodness we have a portable DVD player. We just had to listen to Spongebob talk the whole way. ugh! So the trip there was pretty uneventful & we go there around 1 p.m. We pretty much lounged around the rest of the day...laying in the sun & relaxing. Let me tell you we all needed the relaxation...we all work to hard!!

One of the reasons for the weekend was that it was Gramps' birthday. We had a great dinner & Granny made a REALLY good cake for us. YUM! It was a Boston Cream Cake, I'll have to find out how she makes it...or I could just let her continue to make it for us.

Here are some pictures of the weekend. The kids had great fun playing with Erik & Natasha. Jim, Dawn, myself, Ben, Jim, & Mary all enjoyed talking. Even though we live 2 houses away from each other, we don't really see each other that much. It was nice to get caught up with each others lives.

One bad thing that happen was Kurt got a sliver or something under his fingernail. We just thought it was dirt from all the playing he had been doing & didn't think much of it. But as Sunday wore on his mood just got worse & worse. After trying to figure what was wrong with him, I looked at his fingernail more closely & saw that it was puffy & black under the nail. I talked to my MIL & FIL to see what we should do. We all decided to try to get whatever it was out from under the nail. Guess who got to use the tweezers??? Yep, mommy! It took 3 of us to hold onto Kurt & try not to let his finger move so I could get under it. You should have seen the puss & blood that whooshed out of it! OMG, it was SO gross! I'm surprised I didn't barf! You wouldn't have believed how Kurt's mood changed after that! We have ended up having to do that 3 or 4 times now & he lost 1/2 of his nail on that finger, but it seems to be getting better now. Whew!

Cati

I knew this would happen but I didn't know it would happen so soon. Luke has a little girlfriend!! Her name is Cati & she is my friend Maureen's daughter. Maureen & I have fun talking about the wedding that is going to be in our future. :) Cati had her 5th Birthday recently & Luke was invited to Adventure Park for her party. He was so excited to pick her something special out for her gift (he ended up getting her a cute camo shirt that says "you can't see me" & a Transformer). So, Luke really likes Cati. He is always saying that she is his girlfriend & that he is going to marry her someday. Oh & the funniest thing happened a couple days before her party. He was "working out" on our weight machine one day & Ben asked him what the heck he was doing..."I'm doing it for Cati's party, Dad!" LMBO! Too funny!

Here are a couple pictures from the party. Oh & Cati, you can marry my boy if you want...I give my blessing!!

Luke, Mom, & Dierks

Today Luke & I went downtown Minneapolis to meet with Dierks Bentley. Luke is a big Dierks fan & was really excited to get a autograph. Here are some pictures we took today. Luke did get his autograph on his Mtn Dew Racing hat & we got our picture taken with Dierks. It was a fun Luke & Momma day. :)

KA RA TAY!

At least that is what Spongebob calls it. Luke started Karate lessons this afternoon. I am a terrible mommy & didn't take the camera with so I could blog about it. DUH! So, we decided to put Luke into Karate class after we talked to his Pre-school teacher a few weeks ago. She told us that Luke needs help with his confidence & to be able to stick up for himself. She said that there was a classmate that was picking at him...Luke just took it & didn't say anything. Now Ben & I have discussed our thoughts about school many, many times. I really didn't like anything about school. I wasn't picked on but I was so painfully shy that I didn't make many friends & had a really hard time in class...not wanting to be called on, etc. Ben was pretty much the same way. So, we really don't want Luke to have to go through what we both did. I did a little bit of research on the Internet & asked a few people their opinions. Everything pointed to Karate. It isn't a team sport, it helps with self confidence, self defence, discipline, etc.

In his class tonight, he wore his cute little white Karate uniform *I'll get a picture, I promise! He is in a class called the Mighty Dragons, there are 15 or so 4 & 5 year olds in the class. They were all so darn cute. They learned some kicks, chops, & how to bow to their teachers. I think this is going to be so wonderful for Luke. He is already really enjoying it & I am SO happy we did this for him.

Kurt had fun watching his "brobber" through the glass. He looked very proud of him. It is funny, Kurt doesn't call Luke by his name but he calls him "brobber" for brother. Too cute.

I have such wonderful boys. I am one lucky girl.