Mothers Day Weekend

Saturday morning we wake up, and Adam heads out to the gym to meet up with the guys. Chance, Avery and I are hanging out when we decide that it is going to be a perfect day to plant flowers. Problem is that I hadn't bought any yet, so the kids and I head out to Walmart. While at Walmart (or as I like to call it, the Devil's Haven), we decide to buy some lunch meat. As we head over to the meat counter, we find a little area all set up with cake decorating supplies and little cakes. Walmart was having a special deal where kids could decorate cakes for their moms for mothers day, and it was all free!!! Of course we decided that it looked like fun, so the kids and I made this beautiful cake!!!!
Chance's half is the side with the dark red frosting and the red white and blue star sprinkles. Avery's half has pink fluffy frosting flowers and pastel sprinkles! They did a great job! Here they are showing off their pretty cake.

These photos are more for my mom. She was here a few weeks ago and all my flowers beads where overgrown and basically a mess. So here are my beds all cleared out and halfway planted.
This one is a little naked. I may have to buy some fillers!!!!
Yes I know, another lovely photo of me. I was hanging laundry out and had stuck a few clothes pins on the bottom of my shirt to save my from bending over five hundred times. Avery kept aking me why I had a skirt on. It was cute to hear her little voice ask, "mommy why you got skurt on???" So then I put a few on the neckline of my tee-shirt and then she wanted to know why I had a necklace on..... so then I added a few in the front just for extra decoration. Avery thought I looked fancy! Once again, in the minds of babes!!!!

After 3 years of begging, I am closer to having my deck finished!!! Adam's friend Mark came over to help with the stairs and railing.
They got the side stairs almost done and 1/3 of the railing up. Hopefully soon it will all be done!!!!
Here the guys are, hard at work!!! Great job guys! Thanks for all your help Mark!!!
Of course it is just a plain old saturday, but my little girl has to dress like it is the prom or something! Here she is playing on the trampoline!!
I love her hair!!!!!!!

Did anyone lose a monkeye???? HAHA.

This is Super Chance flying across the trampoline!!!!!!The kids had some more of their cake tonight! You can't really see very well in the photos, but Avery turned her piece upside down and ate the cake, and Chance ate all the frosting off the top of his!!! Just goes to show how completely oposite my kids are!!!!

Science Central

Can you see it??? Doesn't Chance look a little....GREEN???!!!!! You can't see it??? Sure you can, look harder........ Don't you know that when you wear Incredible Hulk Jammies and Incredible HulK underwear at the same time to bed, you can turn into the Incredible Hulk!! Well Chance believes it! He has been asking us all day if he was green... HAHAHAHA!! In the minds of babes!!!


Well this past weekend, Adam and a few of the guys had a guys morning, so I took the kids to Science Central. For all you Ohio folk, think a smaller, cheaper COSI!

This was one of Avery's very favorite things. It was a water table with a ton of rubber toys, and such.
Here is Chance playing on the jungle gym thing they have.
Same photo, ooops!
Here is the jungle gym thingy, very fun!!!
Under the jungle gym, they had a little room full of pillows, Chance thought it was cool!

As you can see, we spent a great deal of time at the water table!

Here the kids are playing at an activity table that has the cut-off nails and you can make shapes by pushing up on them. You can kinda see their hands if you look hard.This was a pully chair. Supposedly you could pull on the rope and raise yourself up,........ Must have to be a little bigger. They had a traveling space show there,.... the kids thought it was pretty, but we did stay in this area long.
Avery was a little builder, or as you can see in the photo, she was also the little destroyer!!!!


This was fun. Chance and I played with this for a long time. You placed the flat blocks into the board so you could put a ball on them and they would roll all the way to the bottom. Chance was better at it then I thought he would be!!!Now this was the favorite by far. It is a room built on an angle. The table was nailed to the floor so they could hang on it, then let go and slide down the floor. I am taking the photo at the correct angle, so you can see how angled it was!

Now this is kinda funny, at least to me. Avery had a blast looking in all the little doors all over this board. Now the funny/weird thing is that the board shows all the damage that heavy drinking causes on a human body. She of course just thought it was a body. Sorry, probably not funny to you...... O-well!!!Now this was FUN! they had whole series of silly mirrors. I can't believe these actually turned out!!!Of course, no fun day is complete till you have shopped! So of course we went shopping and bought these new jammies. (these are the jammies that caused us to believe that Chance just might turn into the Incredible Hulk! Just imagine our dissapointment when we never really turned green!!!!)

For those of you who are wondering what in the world this photo is all about, here we go. When Chance was a baby, I heard of a family who takes photos of their son on their birthdays wearing one of his dad's shirt. They used the same shirt every year till the child was 18. So I started this on Chance's 1st birthday. This is photo #5. It is really cool to see all five lined up to see how much he has already grown. So that is the story. I wanted to post this, so those of you who have seen the other photos could see this one!

Chance had his first t-ball game tonight. Here he is getting ready to bat!
Here he just hit the ball. Run Chance Run!!!!!!
Adam helped out tonight. He was the first base coach that told the kids to stop at first, then to run after the next batter had hit. Avery of course wanted to be on the field with her daddy and cried the whole time he was out there!
Here he is feilding the ball. Lets just say he was a little of a ball hog! The coaches had to draw a box around him in the sand to make him not field every ball! Of course the very next batter, after they did that hit it square to him!! So he got the ball anyway!Here he is again getting the ball.This is a photo of everyone taking their places. Notice Chance has chosen a prime place to stand! No wonder he feilded 85% of all the hits!HAHAHA

This past weekend we went to Ohio to help my brother and his wife, dry-wall their basement at their new house! We LOVE their new house! I think they willhave years of great memories there! We can't wait to see it when it is all done. After working on saturday, mom brought out a feast for all of us. We had steak, potato salad, brownies, and zuchini (sp?) bread! Joleen had chips and wine! I think we all ate way too much. Of course the staeks mom bought were HUGE!!! Of course that stoped NO ONE for not eating the whole thing! HAHAHA.
Chance looked too cute in his sun glasses and big boy shorts! Check him out! Joleen has one of the huge steaks on her plate! Thanks for the meal mom and thanks for letting us all hang out at your new house Brad and Jo!!!!!

Odds and ends

My college room mate Jen-Jen was so nice and brought her baby girl, Isabel to my mom and dad's house last weekend so we could all meet her! Isabel is SO cute!
Chance LOVED holding her. He would have held her the whole time if I would have let!
Avery was SO excited to ge tto hold a baby! She wanted us to take her home with us! For some reason, Jen-Jen said no =)

Here is Jen-Jen with Isabel! Jen-Jen, you are doing a super job, and you are a great mommy!!! Your daughter is too cute, and SO pretty!!! Thanks for sharing her with us!!!!

Trampoline!!!!!!

Here is a family photo we took this weekend. My parents came to town for a visit and to help us put up the trampoline. It has been a realy LONG time since we've all had a photo together, so we took this chance a snapped a few. This one turned out pretty good, so I decided to post it. For all of you who know me, I HATE to have my photo taken, so this is pretty rare.

I just HAD to post these! I had gone out for a walk and wore this headband to keep my ears warm, and when I got home Avery just couldn't resist putting it on herself!
As you can see, she did a lovely job! The hair is just beautiful! I just hope my hair didn't look that pretty when I was walking around the whole town! HAHAHAHA!!

Here are the kids with the new trampoline!!!
Chance got to be the first one to test it out. Grumpa and Gramma bought the trampoline for the kid's birthday presents this year. Since Chance's comes first, it was bought for his birthday, which ment he got to test it out first.
There he is jumping high!
Here is a knee drop!
Since Avery weighs about two ounces, I had to get on with her to even make it bounce! She just likes to run around in circles. Then she falls downand laughs!

Here are the kids with their chocolate bunnies!!! Avery's is about the same size as she is!
They went right for the ears!! The eyes went next!!!