Broom Broom

Budah is obsessed with motorcycles and 4 wheelers.. Therefore, the the 24th of July was all about the Broom Brooms. We went up to my parents property in Wallsburg and rode 4 wheelers. Robs cousins came up and brought their motorcycles. I have to say they are a little crazy on those bikes. Rob rode with them and he too became a little more crazy than normal. All in all it was a lot of fun and no one got hurt.
Does the helmet still work if its backwards?

Mike doing a wheely. To bad I caught it at the end.
Andrew in the begining of his wheely.

Trying to get a good shot

It has been a while since I posted. Last week Jenny and I tried to get some good shots of Zach. He is such a pill so its hard to get a shot of him where he isn't goofing off. We drove down to Exchange Place and what a adventure that was. Budah wanted to ride his broom broom so we had to deal with that and Jackson(Jenny's nephew) was also with us and so he needed one also. CRAZY I tell you. Well by the time we got our poop in a group and started to really shoot it was getting dark so we didn't have a lot of good light...and then Budah was tired and that is all I can say about that.
Budah on his Broom Broom
Jackson riding
Zach
Zach
Jackson

This has got to hurt

As a parent we always are excited and even looking forward to the developmental mile stones of our children. I look at Mikala and her crawling and I am amazed at how fast she is. Tonight she showed me how tuff she is...as she didn't think anything of this.

Summer Treat

Budah LOVES to have popsicles. He thinks they are the neatest thing in the world. Every night after dinner we go out on the front lawn and he eats 1 or 2...ok sometimes 3 and 4. Tonight it was so cute how he was sharing with "Baby Sis" that I had to get him another one so I could take pictures.
Nothing like super hero popsicles
Great color teaching tool
How stinking cute
What a face
My white shirt after Mikala eats off her brothers popsicle

Sunset

The other day Jen (my photography mentor) sent me a link to this really cool place to shoot. I showed it to Rob and he said he knew just where it was at. We took a drive and took pictures as a family. What a chore that was... Budah and Mikala fell asleep on the drive out and we had to wake them for the shoot. It actually went better than I thought it would but for the nearly 2 hours we were out there I only took 24 shots. You can just imagine how much time was spent trying to get everyone and everything together. Oh well. Maybe we can do better next time.

Field of Gold

Last night my neighbor Jenny and I took our kids(all but her daughter Kayla who is in Idaho for the summer taking care of her Grandparents) out to take pictures. It was a lot of fun. We love their family. The boys weren't totally into the picture thing but I think it was nice for them to just be out of the house. Jenny has a real old rod iron chair. It is SO cool, so we took it with us. Oh and the bribery was video games. It is so true the older they are the more money it costs. Mikala and Budah really hammed it up for me. Braden, Mike, Zach and Issac put up with me. Thanks guys for letting me "shoot" you.
Budah
Mikala-Not quite sure I like the vignette around her
Zach, Issac & Mike
Mike
Zach, Mike, Issac

Flowers

Last Wednesday, I planted the flowers in our front yard. Last year we tore out the fitzers that were in this area. WOW! It was so much easier to plant flowers then. Anyway, I got finished planting at 11:30 pm. Late night.



Love this flower. Thanks Jenny for talking me into buying it.

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July. I feel so lucky to live in the USA. Thank you to all the service men and women who defend our country and our freedom. We are eternally grateful to you and yours.

Exchange Place

Today is my moms Birthday. Happy Birthday MoMo. I thought it would be fun to go take pictures of the kids. She had Olivia and Ella and so they went along as well. Mom and I took the kids down to Exchange Place. It was a fun trip, as my mom used to work down there and she gave me a little history of what used to be there and where her office was. It was cool. Budah was a complete POOPER. For the love...the kid was so whiney and I had no patience for it. AUGH. I think I got another gray hair. Anyway here are a couple of pics from the day.

The sign outside my Moms old office building

Braden, Budah, Olivia, Ella

Budah and Ella are best friends and worst enemies. You would think they were brother and sister instead of cousins.

Add on

This was one of my favorite pictures from our Wheeler Farm trip. I love the way Amy is looking at Budah and how he is such a BOY with his finger next to his nose acting all silly. Watch out Jen and Daniel she is already a hottie and is going to have boys all over her.

Just a little CRAZY

I am a little slow to post. Tuesday my friend Jen and I took the kids to Wheeler Farm. I decided to take my "other" kids Zach, Mike and Issac (my neighbors). They are so much fun but they keep me on my toes. Zach, the oldest was on the hunt for a snake to take home. Luckly, he didn't find one. Just when I thought I was home free he decided to chase down a chicken and catch it. FOR THE LOVE. Then Mike had to hold it too. YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING. Braden was threatened with his life so he didn't join in. Then they found a way to turn on water and spray the chickens and try to spray each other. BOYS! I love 'em though. I forgot Mikala's stroller so I had to carry her around. Won't make that mistake again. Austin just wanted to be with the BIG boys. When did he grow up? Jen, Aly and Amy mean the world to me. I love them. I feel so lucky to have them in my life.
Jens daughter Amy

Braden
Budah and Mik
Zach
Mike
Issac