Anyone out there miss me? Didn’t think so!
I haven’t given up blogging. In my heart of hearts, I still think about posting funnies all the time. I just rarely make it to the computer to get them entered. Guess I’ll need to download an app for that on my phone!
Which brings me to [...]

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… [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
Our wonderful, amazing, creative, patient, stellar niece Erica was over for a while yesterday and she captured this moment of our oldest three boys… Connor, Andy, Brady. I couldn’t help but smile when I saw it.
She also made them octopus hot dogs for lunch. She’s the best.

Andy and Brady were watching a science-type show on Animal Planet today. I was listening to it in part, but I was also doing some work online… The program was all about how animals seek different plants and herbs for medicinal purposes.
I find that sort of thing not-so-thrilling, but my boys were glued to the [...]

I can’t help myself. I love my kids… I love baseball… I love brightly colored summer photos… So, I just can’t stop. My sister-in-law Heather took these photos Saturday at Opening Day. I’m posting them here for all eternity!
She got many more of Andy and Brady…

 
Brady played first base for the first inning. Doesn’t he [...]