Camping Fever

Yep we got camping fever! Took the kids camping memorial day weekend down at Truman Lake. We had so much fun. The kids were all good and totally entertained with zero toys. We spent a lot of time at the beaches one was really rocky but then we found one with a little sand. Kinda hard to find sandy beaches when lakes are all flooded. Tried a little fishing with no real luck not even a bite. Ugh. No better way to spend the evening then making smores around the campfire!

Taralyn's Last Day

Yes Taralyn's last day of elementary school. Yes she is a 5th grader. OMG So the last day the 4th graders parade through the halls of the school to say goodbye. Here are a few pictures with her teacher and some of her best buds. Moving on to lockers and after school detention , band and choir. Watch out world here she comes.

Field trip

I went on the 4th grade field trip with Taralyn to Jefferson City this year. It was a big deal. We rode in style on some buses with tv and air. I was happy not to ride that far on the school buses. We got to tour the capitol building, governor's mansion and had lunch on the lawn in front. It was a great day to spend walking all over the capitol. So many stairs and then more stairs upon more stairs. Did I mention all the stairs. Needless to say I was sore for the next two days.

Mothers Day

We went up to the farm for mothers day to do a work day. As you can see not a lot of work got done. Mike did some weed eating while Jeremy cut down a tree and tilled the garden. I tried planting our giant pumpkins seeds but ended up losing to the chickens. They thought my beautiful mounds of fresh tilled dirt was too good to pass up. The kids had fun playing in the same sprinkler Jeremy and I played in at Grandma Lil's. Then it was on for a full blown game of volleyball no mercy on anyone! It was a great way to spend the day.

Easter

Our Easter weekend started Saturday morning in Lee's Summit for the annual parade up main street behind the Easter Bunny. After waiting in line to get our moment with the big man himself we went shop to shop getting candy to fill our baskets. After that we headed over to catch Addi's soccer game. Which deserves its own blog spot. After the game up to the Long-Baker Acres we headed. We had a great dinner with some super fantastic sweet potatoes which was followed by a well planned and organized easter egg hunt. Sunday we went down to church for brunch and an encore presentation of the puppet play. Later Sunday afternoon we headed down to Clinton for yet another egg hunt and a hot dog roast. The kids were super excitied Sunday morning to find that the easter bunny himself left them a tetherball pole in the backyard. As soon as it quits raining here and the concrete can actually set up I am sure the tetherball tournament will begin!!!

Haileys Turtle

So yes we have a new addition to our turtle pen. Squirtle the turtle is Hailey's. Named after Squirt on Finding Nemo. He is part aquatic so we had to install a little pond in the turtle pen. So I guess the turtles are moving up in the world with their own swimming pool.

We are still on the lookout for maybe one more small turtle for Hunter.

Puppet Play

The kids did a puppet play down with the church. Hailey was the police officer and Taralyn was the doctor in the play. Hunter was in charge of carrying the items to the "castle" for the celebration. Lesa and Heather did a great job writing the play and getting the set ready to go.

The kids really enjoyed doing the puppet play and had a great time practicing making their puppets mouths move while they talked. I hope there are more puppet plays to come.