Oh Peyton

For anyone who knows Peyton --she is a one of a kind. I love her so much but she does the funniest things some times. She rarely sleeps on her bed, for some reason, and most nights sleeps under her bed---maybe she feels safe under there (as she gets scared of anything at night!) She enjoys sleeping in her tent in her room, on her rug, most favorite is under her bed--here is where I found her tonight--most nights I can't even see her. When I make her she will sleep in her bed for awhile....I guess her bed/mattress won't ever wear out!

Gardening 101

So I neglected my farm garden (yes I have a town garden and a farm garden)...so far the town garden doesn't get much sun so isn't doing too well and my farm garden is at my parents which is massive but since I don't see it every day can get a bit neglected....so anyways I neglected my farm garden for about 1-2 weeks . Now in my defense it has been thunder storming daily for the last week at least which makes it pretty wet there.

About 3/4 of my farm garden shown here...gets bigger every year

Before Picture: What NOT to do---yes these are all weeds--not beautiful strawberry bushes or anything like that WEEDS! In these weeds are about 9 watermelon, squash, cantaloupe plants which I slowly found...may have pulled up a few trying to distinguish between a weed and plant ! :-)


3 hours later after picture: not perfect...but much better! Still have a ways to go on my weeding but this was the worst of it...maybe I'll wait until my mom comes home from vacation to help :-) Won't neglect it that long again!!

T-Ball

Is this a relay race?

On first base

And the hit

T-Ball season has begun ...this is Pey's first year of playing T-ball and it has been pretty entertaining...So far she likes playing in the dirt...but does get much more into it during practice when her fans aren't around :-) Who know if we'll have a baseball player on our hands...but in the mean time its great exercise and a way to expend some energy!

Sprinkler time

Yes,I'm wet and not sure if I like it! (If that isn't his father's look!)

Run!

Its been in the high 80's pretty much all week, maybe even the 90's at times so we broke out the sprinkler...both kids had fun running through it. Jackson was good as long as he wasn't directly being sprayed!

Preschool graduate!

We just had to buy this hat!

Preschool is done!

Singing "Bubble gum"

My little cowgirl or the "Queen of the Farm" as she calls herself is officially a graduate of preschool! Hurray for Peyton! Yes she is quite the fashionista!

18 months!

18 months--really? Jackson turned 1 1/2 yrs on the 15th of this month...seems crazy that before you know it he'll be two! He seems to have grown up a lot in the last 3 months.. He now weighs 24 lbs, and is 32.5" tall... (which still puts him in the 25% for weight, but 50% for height)..he's a nice size. He still doesn't talk a lot...probably says about 12 words--grandpa being his favorite, but also says mama, dada, hi, moo, hot, up, ball, balloon, breakfast-to name a few- ...mainly grandpa though--whenever he sees a grandpa or a tractor! He can tell you where his head, hair, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, tongue, feet, hands and belly are. Loves to run, play with Peyton and is a very busy boy, he seems to never stop! Balls and tractors are probably his favorite to play with- he is a true boy...but he does like to sit and read as well- mainly tractor books! Peyton and him for the most part play REALLY good together so its a lot of fun to seem them play. He's growing up too fast!

Family

The kids did well on the almost 5 hr drive (one-way) ..Jackson only slept a total of 10min. the whole time!

Brandon, Grandma Fern and Kaija's boyfriend- Robert (twins--if you didn't notice!)

My cousins Natalie, G. Fern, and Kaija

G. Fern's grandkids and great-grandkids (we're a pretty small family)

G. Fern's grandkids


We sadly said goodbye to my Uncle Dave after he lost his battle w/ cancer ....here are a few pictures from his celebration of life and the BBQ after the service.

Oh Jackson!

Is this the perfect shirt for a RD's son or what !!

Yes, it is summer

This is what happens when Jackson sets up Pey's Barbie table and chair and tries to sit on the chair!

I'm sure I've posted Jackson and his hat before....but he LOVES this stocking hat and will wear it around frequently!