Andy, our oldest, at 8 years old. Ian, our youngest, at 8 months old. Buddies!

It’s hard to believe Ian is already three months old… Or that Sweet Baby Gray turned 2 yesterday! OR that Nate is celebrating his 9th Father’s Day today. Wow.
Much has been happening with our very busy family. Here’s a photo update for you:
You may remember that we bought a used shuttle bus in January… [...]

My husband and boys are really into this show on NatGeo channel called “Wild Justice.” It follows around California game wardens and tracks the issues they face.
Seeing how it combines wildlife and law enforcement, my boys can’t get enough. (In a recent episode, the wardens caught some bear hunters who were trying to keep [...]

For once when I’m posting about “big game” it’s not baseball. It’s actually not even technically “big” game, but for my kids, hunting is a BIG DEAL!
Somehow we arrived at the idea that age 6 is old enough to go along with Dad and just learn to sit and be quiet during hunting [...]

Our kids get along amazingly well. Yes, there is an ocassional “it’s mine and he took it,” but for the most part, there’s a lot of respect for one another.
I like it that way.
Lately, though, a small dividing line has been drawn. The three “big” boys have joined forces and started a club. [...]

Andy was just drying dishes for me. One of the things he dried was a large platter I had used to serve my cheesecake dip, apples and graham crackers on for our church pitch-in on Sunday.
He said, “Mom, your stuff looked good at the Snack-and-Yak, but I didn’t eat any.”
I jokingly pouted.
Then I [...]

We were in the van the other day and Andy was bragging that he’d be done with school before Brady. (He’s a whole 13 months older, remember?)
So, Brady whined, “When I’m in junior high, you’ll be in high school… When I’m in high school, you’ll be in college… When I’m in college, you’ll be working [...]

Don’t try to follow my train of thought. It derailed awhile back.
1) Speaking of trains, Ferris “rode her potty train to the end” this week. We started with her Special Potty Day last Monday. Yesterday (Monday again) she finished it off by getting 26 stickers (successes) in a row on her chart!! Woo-Hoo.

Her reward was [...]

A couple weeks ago, this was the deal:

On May 27, Brady earned the game ball for his defensive work!
Last night, something new happened:

Andy went 2-2 last night and had a few great defensive plays.
I love watching my two boys play together on the same team! They read each other so well and know just where [...]

We have this pool that we’d never used. We got it back when we were able to do homebirths. It’s exactly the same size as the one my first three boys were born in.
At any rate, it’d been in our basement for a long time, so we broke it out on Memorial Day and let [...]