cream & salt with your coffee?

saturday i sat drinking my coffee doing my life journal wondering why the coffee tasted so bad. i wondered if it was the dishwasher not getting all the soap off the cup, or the water softener malfunctioning. come to find out someone put salt in the sugar container! we think it was little cooper who managed that little trick without even probably knowing what he did. he really did think it was sugar. he was just trying to be helpful around the house.

breakfast conversation

as chloe, cooper & i were talking about going on a walk this morning...

chloe: can we go to the park on a walk?
cooper: maybe an elephant can take me to the park.
chloe: they can't! they're huge!
cooper: maybe a teeny one can ride me to the park.
chloe: yeah! but we've never even seen an elephant before.
cooper: (trying to get my attention) mom. mom. Mom! MOM!! i can ride a big elephant! you ride a big one. and you ride another big one. cuz you're a glirl and you're a glirl and i'm a boy.
chloe: i'm going to ride a mommy elephant. even elephants can touch the clouds with their trumpets.
cooper: mom. mom. Mom! MOM!!! i think we can use a ladder. we need to find elephants. birds! chloe look birds!!

wow! did you catch all that? i wish you could've heard it all. i was doing my best to be the court reporter & write it all down, but i'm sure i missed some elephant comments before they moved onto discussing the birds. gotta go. i just heard: "let's go catch a bird. be very quiet." and the front door opening & shutting.

Ready for Spring

Kamrie sums it up extremely well...I like the flower. I like the sun. I agree completely Kam!

House Pictures

Here's the outside of the house after a few fix-ups (or shall I say tear-aparts). We're gaining! Do you miss the wagon wheels??

tired guys

Their day's activities caught up with them as they sat to watch "Cars" this afternoon.

little friends

chloe and her friend abby at soccer. they were so cute walking around holding hands.

super speed

the daisies we planted yesterday afternoon definitely have super speed! they are already sprouting. that's fast germination time! we also have some sweet william, bachelor's buttons & marigolds that we're trying to sprout.

parker also has a lima bean attached to the window to sprout. maybe we'll plant that & start serving them for supper later in the year.

i've also got a 'seven sisters' rose clipping in a jar of water for my favorite mother-in-law...:)

p.s. update the next day...i should have known that this was impossible. hunter just confessed that he "transplanted" a couple of tiny plants into the spots i'd just seeded. he thought they needed more room. hmmm. and i was amazed at their super speed.

blogging uh-oh

i tried to change my template to a really cute "happy spring" one late last night. all my little add-ons disappeared, no more guestbook, no more photos. blogging uh-oh. i was up until about midnight trying to put back those items. it wasn't that difficult except that i couldn't remember what page elements i had where. i may be missing some but for now it's ok. i'll stick with the regular blogger templates for now until i'm a bit more blog savvy.

April Showers

Bring May flowers! I've been outside moving some lilies & other green stuff around this week. I'm not really sure what it all is, but it's kinda pretty leafy stuff. Could be weeds for all I know...

I also took off the iron railing from our front step & took off the old crummy looking house numbers. It looks so much better already! I also got the trim painted & the excess paint scraped off the windows--yikes my arms were tired! Some of that paint was from whenever it was painted last--several years old. It really looks better with the trim cleaned up & the windows washed.

Yep, I actually washed our windows. I think I only washed our windows in Imperial 1-2 times in 5 years. So, I'm good now for another 5. :)

Awana End

Ahhh. We can get to bed on time on Wednesday nights. Maybe the last few weeks of school will be easier to get up on Thursday mornings.

Awana ended with "Pie in the face night." Any clubber who said a section of their book during the month of April got to put their name in for a drawing. The winner got to choose which leader's face to throw a pie into. The winner? A fourth grade girl from Hunter's class. Who did she choose?

Herself! She picked one of the leaders to smash it into her face! You should have seen all the other kids cheering them on!