Little Birdie

 The mommy came back and posed for me one day.  

 I found another bird's nest under our deck.  I didn't see which bird made their home there.  The nest is right under where we had our grill.  I had to move our grill since it will drip fat down on the deck.  I didn't want the little birds to get splattered.  (I heard from my hubby that we have a new grill now so that isn't a problem!)

This is the best picture of the mom and dad bird I could capture.  I called Darren to have him take a picture of the baby birds in the nest for us.  He said that the nest was destroyed and the eggs were smashed.  I feel so terrible.  I was hoping the kids would get to see the baby birds.  Darren said that the birds are making another nest on the other side of the deck so maybe we will still have something to look at.

A Quilting We Will Go

 The start of a quilt......only a start.

 Not very happy.  She wanted the red piece by the blue piece.

Actually she wanted to get out and crawl around on the quilt.  That sounds like a bunch of fun for a little girl and a bunch of work for her mom.  She stayed in her chair and cried and cried and cried.

Point of View

Who took these pictures??  What exciting things did they capture??

 Trees.  A bird maybe??

 A really, really big ant (so I'm told).  Its crawling towards the top of the picture.

 A birdie having some lunch.

Ahhh, I know that smile anywhere - its Stephen George.  Stephen is suppose to be doing his school work at this point.  As a future reference George, you may want to delete the proof that you were NOT working on your school work like you hinted to your mommy.  (Who is standing with her hands on her hips with that "You are in trouble, Mister" look on her face.)

I was Hungry

3 year old boy - Hershey's chocolate syrup - hiding in bedroom =

One messy boy, one laughing dad, one "I can't believe this kid!" mom.

Slow Week

Its been a slow week around here.  We finished planting the garden this past weekend.  I will have to get some pictures of it before the weeds take over or the deer get hungry.  We also did some cleaning and organizing of the last room in the house that has not had any attention since we moved in.  Darren plans to paint that room soon and then Cormac and Rex can move downstairs.  We had someone come check our A/C only to find out we need a new one and a new furnace before winter comes.  Yah, its been a slow week.  The most exciting news is that....

 Cormac FINALLY lost his other front tooth.  This is his "Smile really big for the camera so everyone can see your missing teeth," smile.  I love the wrinkled nose and goofy eyes.  He fished $1.50 out of a cup of water from the tooth fairy.  The tooth fairy didn't come the first night.  There was a rumor (started by Mom) that she sent an email saying she couldn't make it because it was raining where she was.  Tooth fairies are a lot like insects - they can't fly when their wings are wet.  They actually believed the story.....

 Gianna enjoyed helping Mom cut out a quilt.

 Mom did not enjoy having Gianna help with the quilt.  She got bored though.

 She decided to move on to bigger and better adventures.  Messing with Mom's computer ranks fairly high in the bigger and better as well as adventure aspect.

 She was extremely proud of herself when she figured out how to start the movie.

Obviously it was a good movie.

Its been such a slow week.  Movies, quilts, tooth fairies - just your normal excitement.

Visiting Friends

On Saturday, Cormac, Brech, Gianna, and I visited some of our friends in Minnesota.  We had a great time and enjoyed our day off.  Cormac was the lucky winner of the day.  He came home with a pair of boots (which he has only taken off for bedtime and church since Saturday) AND he got to eat at McDonald's TWICE in one day.  He was super pleased with his two spy toys from McDonald's as well.  He kept saying that Blase and Stephen were just going to faint when they saw everything.  He has been very generous and let all his brothers play with his spy toys.  He also let Brech Earl wear his boots for a whole 5 minutes.

One of Cormac's "bestest friends".

 The lovely photographer who snapped all these pictures for me.

 The only picture of my friend (talking on the phone way in the corner of the picture) and her husband.  Gianna and I were obviously the intended target of this picture, but I'm glad the other two were "shot" too.

 The newest little one in their family.  He's too sweet.

This picture I took on the way home.  I thought it was a beautiful sunset.  A perfect ending to a great day.  Cormac is already begging to go back again.  I suppose we will have to plan another trip over in the summer.  He has already sent his friend a letter.  I'm glad they are becoming good friends.

Spring Babies

Look what we found on our deck.

Last Friday, May 11, we found one egg.  

(The purple corner is actually a mirror.  I couldn't get a good picture until I used my mirror.)

 It is just cozy as can be.

 On Monday, May 14th, we found 4 eggs.

 There must have been 5 eggs...sniff, sniff.

 Here is the mommy - a House Finch.  She's noisy when she wants to be.  She sits on a nearby branch and calls me all sorts of names.  I'm not sure I want to know what she's saying.  The tone says all I need to know.  She hasn't allowed me to get a picture of her on her nest.  She flies away before I'm even all the way out the door.  

 She blends well with our tree.