Andy's 1st turkey

Andy got his first turkey April 27th! His first day out turkey hunting for this season! You'll have to ask him for all the details becuase he tells them best :) He is so proud and excited! The kids are just as excited! Grady all day long points to the door saying, Turkey, Turkey! Mia took the turkey's feet to show n share at school! They ask to see and touch them everyday. I have not and will not touch the feet. They creep me out ;) But I sure am proud of my man! :)
Thought I'd share some pictures:

Hadley's 4th birthday partty

Mr. Grady!

God's beauty

While the girls were at Awana one day, I was able to capture a few pictures of God's beautiful creation! Theres something about the creation of his sky that just puts me in awe every time I see it! He is a God of beauty, perfection, and love!

"Splendid and Majestic in His work, and His righteousness endures forever." Psalm 111:3

"Your love, oh LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies. Psalm 36:5

A glimpse of February

Here are a few pics of what we did in the month of February when we weren't sick!

Building a snowman




Eating the snow




Some painting


And eating the paint






Wrestling with daddy


The girls love wrestling with daddy!


A few trips to the free museum(Cabellas)


ZZZZ


The girls pretending to play a game

"poo poo"

Grady is starting to be aware when he has to go "poo poo."
The other day, I put him in the bath tub with the girls and all of a sudden, he says, "poo poo."

We thought, uh oh, now what? So, I grabbed the potty chair and gave it a try. He was very proud to be sitting on the big boy potty and had a blast with the toilet paper, but no success ;) I guess it was a false alarm :)

What did daddy do?!

Daddy got crazy as you can see in these pictures! I guess that's what happens when he's stuck in the house with us for a few days straight because were all sick and he had to take care of us. ;)
I will admit, I was not thrilled at first when I saw him buzzing Grady's hair! However, it's starting to grow on me, but still not my favorite hair cut on him. I guess as the mom, my baby boy is cute no matter what hair cut he has! And it's just hair, it will grow back! I love Andy's hair this length, but Grady's a baby so now he just looks bald! ;)
.... at least Daddy likes it! Or he likes the fact that he has a little buddy he can buzz his hair with!

A night out of town

Last wkd, we got the opportunity to have a night out of town. We went a whole 15 miles to grafton, our neighbor city! ;) We get awesome discounts at the Hampton Inn bc my mom works there so we decided to spend a night, do lots of swimming, go out for dinner, get some ice cream at our favorite ice cream place, and enjoy a gourmet continental breakfast the next morning, which was extra special bc my mom was working and works in the kitchen. So, basically, we ate like kings and queens that morning and my mom so nicely made what we wanted and served us. I got a good mom :) The next day, we took the kids to build a bear with the gift certificates from our friends in MN(thank you) and had lunch at the mall, then just kinda bummed around for the rest of the day.
'Freaky side note:' 2 wks before we went to the mall there was a mob of kids who invaded it making chaos running through it. And the night before we went, the mall had a bomb threat. We did not know this until we left the mall and I dont think I would've went knowing that.

But the two days 'out of town' were a definitely needed and fun family time! :)

Yummy ice cream


It snowed like crazy when we went out for ice cream! It was beautiful!


Swimming


Grady LOVED the water and did not want us holding him, he wanted to do it all on his own!
He has NO fear!


Mia also loved the water and has become quite a good swimmer





Build a bear


Washing their bears


Grady's bear (Andy thought it would be cute to get them all underwear for their animals since we didn't have enough for their outfits that were about $20 a piece!)


The girls with their loveys