Wordless Wednesday with lots of words (haha!)

Like I said yesterday, Dylan went out with Ryan. Ethan and I ran out at dinner time to take them thier dinner. So on the way out I snapped quite a few photos. Ryan even took Ethan for a round in the tractor. Dylan had a moment of panic when I asked him to get out so Ethan could get in. I promised him that he would be able to go right back in the tractor when Ethan was done. He was ok with that. Here are a few pictures. I have more to share later in the week.

Dylan waiting on the 4-wheeler while Ethan rides in the tractor

Ethan and daddy as they pass by

Today was the second day this week that Ethan and I ran out on the 4-wheeler. He loves it. I thought he might be scared, but he surprised me. I took Dylan out a lot when he was Ethan's age and he loved it as well. Between the tractor and the 4-wheeler, we gotta start 'em early! 

Batteries

I have been quite productive around here today. Which is a little surprising since Ethan had me up sometime during the 6 O'clock hour. Dylan is out with Daddy in the tractor, so it was just me and the whiny butt this morning. Since he was up so early he also went down for a nap a little early. I hopped on the treadmill for a bit and then went to getting some things done around here. I won't bore you with the list! Anyway, after Ethan went down for his second nap, I gathered up the toys that needed new batteries to change them. I have a bad habit of letting toys go for a while without batteries before I actually get around to changing them. So since I was on such a roll today, I did them. We had stocked up on batteries around Christmas time when they were on sale and almost free.

So yeah, there was quite a bit of things to fix. And yes, I know my table is dirty. Oh well! The only batteries I didn't have were the aaa size. So I had to put a couple of things up until I get them.

There are a lot of batteries! So that is done, and so am I. Now that Ethan is re-charging his batteries with a nap, I will re-charge mine and rest a while. I hope you all are having a nice week!

A few things...

We didn't do much over the weekend. But it was a nice weekend. No big plans for the week. The boys are off and on moody and hyper as always. I have been staying up way too late in the evenings and waking very exhausted. I had been staying up waiting on Ryan to get home from planting. I need to start going to bed at my normal time. The 7 am wake up calls from Ethan are getting rough. Also, I gave in. I started my list for vacation. Wait, did I say "list"? I meant listssssssssss. Multiple. One for each kid, one for Ryan and I and one for general items. I also cleared the dining room table. (For probably the 4th time in 2 months.) I am going to use that to set items aside to take. I know we aren't going until August, but I can't wait until last minute to get it all in order. I will stress myself out and make it worse than it should be. So for sanity sake and so I don't forget anything, I am slowly adding things from time to time. Things we aren't using day to day. Leave me alone...that's just how I need to do things. Plus, I am totally excited, so this helps! Again, leave me alone...I can be weird. Yes.

Today I am going to link up with Chic Homeschool Mama for her Monday Rewind. It has been a long time since I've done this link up. Mainly because I forget. I forget a lot.

Oh! My camera strap tends to irritate my neck quite a bit and more so now that it is hot out and I sweat. So I got to looking around on the good ol Internet and of course they make something to remedy that. You can make camera strap covers. And there are a lot of people out there who make them as well. So after I looked around for those, I went to searching for a "how to" for making them. I did this knowing that "I" would never be able to make them. So I found a site, and emailed Ryan's mom. Turns out it is pretty simple (but certainly not for me who is sew deficient.) So I emailed her, she looked at it and voila 30 minutes later she had completed a camera strap cover for me!! She had left over fabric from a purse she made me a while back and used it. Perfect!

Here is the purse:

And here is the camera strap:

So now it doesn't hurt my neck!!!

 

Happy Saturday!

More pictures!

Excuse the dirty glass on the door!!

Foto Friday Time!

There were some pictures from berry pickin' that I didn't share yet, and then there are 2 that I edited to show you again. I have more pictures to share tomorrow from the rest of the week, so stop back by.

There is something about this photo that I really like. It represents 3 generations! That's pretty special...They all have their containers for the berries.

 

Here are a few more:

Random-ness

Not a lot going on. Ryan is finally in the fields working. They are finally getting the corn planted and the rest of the ground worked. The kids are driving me insane. I can't believe that June is here already. I have no idea where the time has gone. May flew by so fast. The whole year has seemed to just fly by. It's kind of sad.
As you could see from yesterday's pictures, we do have hummingbirds. I tried my best to get pictures, but it was a little dark. I had to wait until the kids went to bed to take them. The birds just aren't used to us, and there is no way the kids would stay still and be quiet. I will try to get better pictures though. So far I have noticed a male and a female. I can't tell there is more than one pair or not. There are also ants on the feeder. Anyone know how to keep ants off? I sprayed the pole to kill all of the ants that were on there and then used vaseline on the pole to stop them...Hopefully. We'll see.
Also, remember the post about the candle I won in a giveaway? If not, you can go back and read by clicking HERE. Well I have been lighting it off and on when the boys are asleep. Today I was able to get the ring out of the candle!

Well here is the ring. Its kind of heavy!

Also remember the eggs with plants inside I told you we got the boys for Easter?

Well today, I finally remembered to get them open and hopefully growing. So I followed the directions and went to crack them open. They were stuffed full of soil or whatever it is. I thought they would only be half full. So it made it difficult to wet the seeds. So I just cut plastic cups in half and poured the stuff from the eggs into the cups and placed it on the window sill. Also, the bottom of the eggs are open, and only covered with a piece of paper with the flower name on it. Wouldn't it leak?

So we will see how it all goes. I am not the best at growing things.

I went out yesterday and took a few pictures. I will share them over the next few days. Also tomorrow is Foto Friday, so I am posting a picture you've already seen from strawberry pickin' but I edited and really like it. There will also be a few new pictures from that day, so please stop back by. If you could, whenever you visit, click that cartoon lady on the right side to vote for me. Thank ya!

Wordless Wednesday...Kind of

I had the window open and he was watching me



See that? That is the hummingbird sitting on the wire.