Cowboys and Indians

We gave the boys one more day of recovery time before they go back to Lisa's, so we took shifts watching the boys while the other worked. I took part of the afternoon and was home when they woke up. Miles and I went in to get Cooper and it was clear he is feeling much better. Cooper started sharing his babies and they were giggling up on Cooper's bed. Then he said 'I wish Miles could talk. Then we could play Cowboys and Indians!' I have no idea how he knows about playing Cowboys and Indians, but we had a good laugh.

Here are a few new pics of the boys this afternoon.

To the Robins on our deck - Watch out for that snake!

We have two Robins trying to build a nest on our back porch light. They've been at it for several days and have made no progress (half becuase it's a bad spot and the other half because every chance we get we go tear down whatever progress they have made...). We've had this problem before and the back porch ends up covered in bird poop, grass, straw, sticks and whatever else they drop on the porch. It's not going to happen this year...at least we thought.

A friend recommended we buy a black snake, rubber of course, and lay it on top of the light. Great idea - snakes eat birds / eggs, they will be afraid, move on to another spot (like trees!). So, Carey picks up a snake at Wal-Mart and I put it on top of the light with hopes of great success. Within the first minute, this is what we found.






If you can't tell, that's a Robin, approaching, putting in some nest, then biting the snake. She must be very scared. I think we are going to need more 'tactical' measures...

The Plague

We returned from our extended Easter weekend on Monday - we had a big week. Despite taking a few days off, I had quarterly sales meetings for several days (and nights) which had me away from the family. It would have been okay had Cooper not come down with a wicked flu bug on Tuesday. Carey and I have cleaned up more puke (on the floor, bed, stuffed animals, us...) than ever before. Cooper has literally laid on the couch for days. It's all we can do to keep him hydrated. We are starting to see some smiles with Cooper, but now Miles has it! Lisa (our babysitter) also thinks one of her kids is coming down with it so it may be another long, long week.

Easter Weekend

We went to the big city of Enid, OK for Easter weekend with the Bethell family. Hanna and Jeremiah hosted our family as well as Mom, Dad, Wade and Lauren. Mom and Dad pulled the 5th-wheel down so it was very nice to each have some space at Hanna's. We had great weather and spent a lot of time outside on the 4Wheelers, fishing, feeding calves, etc. Cooper had so much fun, especially on the ATVs. The constant phrase was 'Dad, let's go faster'! Here are some pics of the weekend.

Weekend Project

It's been a few days, okay weeks, since our last post. However, much has been going on! I've traveled to the west coast and Canada several times, Miles is crawling like a crazy man, we're putting up a new fence and built a swingset over the weekend!! I'm not sure we knew what we were in for when we started the swingset - there were only two small boxes...

Before and After: