Highlights of Spring

As i said above, April was a busy month, but it was great. We drove to Calgary to pick up my parents from the airport. They were coming home from being in Israel for 3 months. We got to hang out, be in a snow storm and go to the zoo.  It was great.

 In May, we've started to get out in the yard and get some things planted. Our neighbours have been more than gracious letting us use their quads, harrowing tools, tractors, and truck and trailer. They are such a blessing.

 Brad and Isaac harrowing to get the ground ready for grass seed.

 Autumn now has two teeth on the bottom, one on the top as well as three more starting to poke their way through. She's been pretty content through teething, and no drool. (with Isaac I had to change bibs three times a day as well as his shirts)

 I'm so glad she likes to be outside with all of us!

 Brad's sister Lindsay and her boyfriend Kevin came out again to help us out in planting 26 spruce trees. Thanks to our great friends the Driedgers, we had no cost but fuel for these trees. Praise the Lord!

 This is Brad's nifty invention for watering the trees. Works pretty good.

All this time outside, and hard work tires a boy out!

Our shelter belt trees are starting to produce green stems, so i'll have to take some pictures of those trees too! Last night Brad and Isaac were on the tractor cultivating the area where our garden will go. Tomorrow morning we will plant the garden, and maybe even go to John Deere for their open house and buy a lawn tractor!!

A Busy April

We've had lot's of company this month, so it's been busy but great!

Brad's parents came first, it was a short visit, and we hope to see them again May Lond weekend.  Brad's dad helped put up the blinds, a mirror and we were all outside playing in the mud and trenching the ditches!

We even found time for a dance party!

Then Lindsay, her boyfriend Kevin, Dustin, Justine and Noah came to visit for Easter. Another short visit, but a lot of fun! we had the easter egg hunt outside, thankfully there wasn't too much mud.

 Isaac was having so much fun hunting for eggs, he didn't want to go inside to go potty. We look over and there's Isaac pants down going pee.  What a goof!

 Isaac found my bag for me!

 Then it was Autumn's birthday!

 What an adorable one year old!

 We didn't really eat the cake! I had mixed kool aid drink mix with the icing for the pink colour, but added way too  much kool aid mix....it was so sweet and sour you couldn't even put a candy in your mouth without wiping the icing off first!! Lesson learned.

 Happy Birthday Autumn

Then last weekend we went to Cochrane to pick dad and mom up from the airport, after being in Israel for three months....pictures to come!

Feel like I need to put my feet up

Today is a gorgeous day outside! So after we got the mail and papers today, we came home and went outside. Unfortunately the wind was cold so Autumn and I only stayed out for 20 min but Isaac was able to stay out longer, until his mud boot got full of snow. 

I'm so happy I found a spring coat for her and some splash pants at last year kids swap!

And then we decided to make more buns, since we're out!

Then why not make another batch of dough and make some cinnamon buns!

And some more...

Super yummy! I need to get some good pans for cinnamon buns and buns, so they don't pop up like this!

I'm so glad I did all this today, because tomorrow at 8:30am i get a full body massage and a pedicure!

Here's Isaac waiting on the deck in Brad's shoes for Brad to come home! Can't wait to see his dad at the end of the day!

New Energy

I found a new energy the last couple of days. It's been great to be able to do some devotions in the morning lately, and I'm sure that helps, but I haven't been feeling as tired from my thyroid either, so I hope it's becoming regulated.  Here are some pictures of the fun we've had today. We had a dance party, made some cool binoculars, and had a "hunt". I took a old calendar with animal pictures and hung them aournd the house, Isaac took his new binoculars out on the hunt to find all the animals. It was a lot of fun!

Isaac found the dogs with his binoculars!

 Isaac playing on our huge snow pile this afternoon

What's that?? a puddle?? It must be starting to melt!! HURRAY!!

This picture was taken the other day...that headband didn't stay on her head for very long.

Where is all this snow going to go?

Brad has been outside for over two hours the last couple of days on the skidsteer.  We have had a southeast wind gusting from 30 to 50 kms for the past 5 days straight.  It's been crazy! Needless to say the drifts are bad and compact. We feel so blessed to be able to borrow that skidsteer from our neighbour and builder. Without it, we would be in debt big time...

Here are a few pictures of the snow piles that have accumulated this winter...we are going to have so much mud and water pooled up.....I'm not sure if we will even get grass seed planted this year.

This is our biggest snow pile! 

The picture above is looking down our driveway that brad has tried to make wider time and time again. The picture below is the second large pile.

 That drift is soooo compact, up close you can see the layers. this drift worries me cause it's so close to the house, but the ground does slope down from the house, so we'll be fine.

 The big drift is probably 15 feet high...so a great mountain for this guy. I asked Isaac if he wanted to go outside and be king of his castle and he said no, i want to be a lion in my castle.

I wish this snow and wind would stop already!!

John Deere Cake

This past weekend i took my First Aid and CPR course. It was kinda a joke because we took the test all together and said the answers alound.  A lot of the information came back to me from when i took it in high school, but they have changed some things, so i'm glad i took it.  While i was taking that course, Brad was home with the kids and they decided to make a cake.

Turned into a John Deere cake...pretty yummy too!!

Brad always says the kids are great when he watches them...I wanted to remind him that when he watches them he doesn't do anything but watch them. No dishes get done, no laundry, no cleaning.  So then i feel better when i watch the kids and they aren't so great because i am trying to get all those things done.  Which explains why Isaac got into my makeup today....my mom says it's payback, for me getting into her makeup....hopefully this will be a one time thing for Isaac....

He only got into my eyeshadow and put it on his face...could've been a lot worse and a lot more expensive for me!

Autumn is pretty close to walking, but manages to get enough things in her mouth crawling.  But she's super adorable and cute, so I'm ok with all the stuff coming out of the cupboards, if I get to look at this smile all day :)

Have a great weekend, I'm heading to Bonnyville!!